Originally Posted by
nutwpinut
Since Wiki has been known to sometimes be false, I went ahead and dug up my Lonely Planet Austria. Lonely Planet mentions the same thing as Wiki: "It's customary to add a 10% tip"
If you look up the wiki site maybe 2-3 of the 100 European countries talk about tipping at all, I would call that a rare occurrence, but it does happen.
It is wrong. Sometimes they are.
On the basis that there is a glaring ommission in that it fails to mention that service and tax is almost always automatically added then it seems pretty useless to me.
Some sites do get it correct.
here and
here ie
Tipping abroad by country
Austria - Restaurants: 12.5% service charge is included in the bill – leave €1-€2 for good service. Hotels: bills include a 10% service charge, leave a small tip for good service.
and
here
I saw it on many "tips" on VT, that it is usual to add 10% to the bill...
THAT is simply not correct, as most people in Austria will just ROUND UP the bill like :
02,70 --> 3,00
27,30 --> 28,00
246,20 --> 250,00
The only "sense" of that kind of tipping is, not to get back a lot of small change back !
I work in Restaurant business since more than 20 years now, and of course I know, there are guests, who tip a bit more on a special occasion, for EXTRA&SPECIAL service - sometimes simply in order to impress a nice waitress...
To be honest I'm surpised that such authoritative sources get it so wrong and remain unchallenged/uncorrected. However, I hope this helps .....
