bungeejumper wrote:Technically, tipping has been rendered redundant in France for the last four years or so. In bars and restaurants, certainly, the tip is included in the menu price.
In practice, though, people do still leave small cash tips on the table which will tend to get you (slightly) faster service if you intend to return another day. I can't speak for the current practice in Pushy Paris, though, because I haven't been there in fifteen years - but it's the way it works in other parts of the country.
It's made eating and drinking out a lot less complicated, in a country where I've previously been chased down the street by bone-idle waiters demanding bigger tips.
And to think, they said it couldn't be done.
BJ
I always understood that in France it was a case of "Bien sur, Monsieur, the service is included but not the tip".
TJH