The season has been opened by the portal epheagermentioning a practice that was not common in Spain, but that has already reached premises in Barcelona: ask for a percentage of the cost of food as a tip.
Custom, very common in the United States where the waiter’s salary depends on tips, it does not have the same character in Spain, where this money is left as a detail for good service, but it is not obligatory in any way.
In fact, another of the controversies has come about because one of the restaurants, in this case the LaBarra restaurant, also makes a certain game of emojis based on the tip. so announced rac1 at the end of 2022 when echoing the new format in which LaBarra intended to recover tips in pre-Covid times.
No tip, a sad face; 5% tip, smiley face, 10% tip, a very happy face. Although the company in statements to this Catalan radio station maintained that it was doing it to recover the tip moment, very upset with the rise of card payments and the covid19 restrictions, the truth is that it is still not an obligation in our country.
For this reason, ruben sanchezgeneral secretary of Facua-Consumers in Action explained in the program Everything is a lie, on channel Cuatro, which was where Efeagro echoed, about the legal situation that these tips generate.
“It is not an illegal act because they do not impose it”although he considered that asking for that money is trying to take advantage of the good faith of the client and that “in some way, he becomes the one who pays the bonus of a salary that is too low.”
A reality about which the Hospitality Association of Spain has also expressed itself on the same portal, indicating that it is a suggested option and that “they are beginning to make some apps associated with the dataphone”. They remember that “it is not obligatory to leave a tip at all” and that depends on the voluntary nature of the clientbut it seems that the American style of tipping is here to stay.
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