[simonh]

I really don’t know, I’m a Brit and found that one year I went on a business trip and suddenly it had just stopped.

I wouldn’t say the IK really has a tipping culture. We do it in restaurants occasionally, especially ones where drinking is a big part of it, but nobody will get annoyed if you don’t. My daughters work part time waitressing at a restaurant near us that’s pretty expensive and sells a lot of cocktails and such, and they sometimes come home with £30 in tips.

On the continent it used to be required. Waiters at cafes would get very upset if you didn’t tip, or didn’t tip enough. The guys that helped with luggage at hotels too. Then it just stopped. You still can and some do, but the passive aggressive pressure just went, everywhere as far as I can tell.

[danielbln]

Summarising 27 countries with "the continent" might be painting with too broad of a brush, there are quite some differences between the different member states, though there is usually none where more than 10% tips is common, most have the tips embedded in a service fee.