Im an international student. Whats the deal with tipping here?
In restaurants and bars in Canada, it’s fairly customary for the customer to give an extra tip of ten to fifteen percent to the server if you appreciate the speed and quality of their service. In other countries, this isn’t the practice … the tip is automatically included in the price of the product in some regions, and in others the wages are higher and so tipping is not customary. However, in Canada and the US, the wages for service employees are generally quite low and these people rely on tips to supplement their earnings. At the Pub, tipping is certainly not mandatory, although many people do tip. The typical amount that many students leave is a quarter per drink, and this money doesn’t actually go directly to the bartender or beer tub person … it gets divided equally between ALL the staff (that worked that night) at the end of the night. We think this makes a more fair system for the persons working in positions that don’t involve direct selling (ie. the buspersons and DJ’s),
