Originally Posted by WHBM
Oh no. Increasingly for those visiting the US from overseas the serving staff will start to deliver an unsmiling, patronising and possibly aggressive "hard sell" about how you have to tip, how much, etc, sometimes more than once during the meal.
Yeah, and the madness is spreading with the Americans!
I was chased out of a bar in Cancun once, by a barman asking for a tip! I told him I did tip him (which I actually did) opened the door and threw him back in.
Same trip did a little tour, at the end of the tour the tip jar came out, all the americans automatically put their hands in their pockets, and the hard sell came out with 'hey man don't forget my tip'. That cemented his lack of tip from my group.