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Originally Posted by PoliticalRefugee
is tipping in bars for beers in the US standard?
I'm from the UK and there is NO WAY I'd tip in a bar/club whatever unless it was say £14.20 or something random. We pay say £2.50 for a bottle of Becks at a bar, wouldn't cross my mind to leave a tip. I've been a bartender before and people do leave tips but no way is it standard especially on a single beer.
Yes, it's standard.
You pretty much HAVE to tip.
I mean, you won't get arrested for not tipping but you will be a huge douche. This goes even for a $2 bottle of beer or some ultra-cheap night [tipping is actually somewhat more important then to my mind].
If you only tip 10% then you are already in the higher end of douchiness in the U.S. But if you don't tip at all then you are just a total prick.
I know it's different in England and other countries. But in the U.S. you really do pretty much HAVE to tip even if it's just them taking 5 seconds to pour a drink. I also know that it's totally stupid and seems even more stupid to other countries/cultures that don't "get it". But there's no way around it. Tipping is pretty close to mandatory here.