This summer we will go for the fourth time in the USA.
Now I'm quite trained on money/tips behaviour, but I want to ask if
something changed in the last 3 years...
Here in Europe tips are not very common, and generally 'normal' people
almost never give tips, so we are not trained to do so...
I normally in USA leave 15/18% on restaurants, 2-3$ on buffets with some
light table service (like beverages), and 1-2$ on Motel's room every night.
I'm in some wrong? Something changed (maybe increased)?
Another question: here is normal to pay something (also very cheap, like
a cup of coffee) with a 20 or 50 euros bill getting the change back
without problem.
I remember my wife buying something very cheap on a big family store
(something like 'all items for 1$ each') having trouble with a 20$ bill
(and also with the language: I'm the only that speaks, in some way,
english, and she was alone)...
My first thing to do there will be to harvest 1$ bills and 25c coins...
It seems that all there works with them...
For bigger amounts: credit card...
I think you (they) are, maybe, lucky for that...
Here we have coins, no bills, for the amount of 1 and 2 euros, and
there's a feel that our currency worth less than real (not true: 1 euro
= 1.36 US$).
Ciao, Piero. |