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Originally Posted by silent_jay
It's almost like I'm psychic
Call me NOW!!! It's Cleo.
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Your own major newspaper, the Vancouver Sun, does a recent story containing claims identical to the ones I made in the thread OP. Bossnass decided that the credit card data in <a href="http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_13139.aspx">this article</a> displayed in the OP, actually meant:
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Originally Posted by Bossnass
And from one of host's linked articles;
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"Originally Posted by cityt.ca
The BMO/Mosaik MasterCard survey suggests 78 per cent of Canadians tip the standard 15 per cent in restaurants, though it appears Canadians aren't nearly as generous to workers in other service sectors."
So to summarize, most Canadians tip at least 15%, and the Canadian standard as referred to in that article is 15%.
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when, actually the article he interpreted and the Vancouver Times story, and feedbeck from around the net, say something different, and so do many posters on this thread.
It appears more likely the the Canadian typical maximum tip percentage is 15 percent, and that percentage is at best, 83 percent of an AVERAGE 18 percent tip in the US. It is 79 percent of the AVERAGE tip in the market where I work, and I don't work in an average restaurant.
When you are escorted from the bar to a seat at a table in my section, I can expect to be docked 2 percent of your bar tab from the tip you leave, if you leave 15 percent, because the bar receives a 17 percent tip on your drink tab, regardless of the tip amount you leave. I can expect your maximum tip, if you are satisfied with food and service, to be 79 percent of the average tip in my market, at the average restaurant. The information about your tipping habits, compared to those of US patrons, has been published in your newspapers. Your reaction is to say, "be happy with what I give you, stop whining, I don't give a shit if you don't like it, find a better job".
You enjoy the superior buying power, because of the strength of your currency, yours and the Europeans. Stop taking up seats in our restaurants, and cutting our fucking compensation!