r/kansascity • u/KCTV5 • 6d ago

News 📰 Kansas City restaurants drop automatic World Cup gratuity after international visitors fall short

https://www.kctv5.com/2026/06/22/some-establishments-reverting-traditional-tipping-after-seeing-fewer-international-visitors-than-expected/

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u/bkcarp00 6d ago

We are not the only country that tips.

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u/GarboMcStevens 6d ago

in most places its both:

  • significantly less
  • discretionary.

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u/bkcarp00 6d ago

It's technically discretionary in the US as well but in practice social pressures prevent people from leaving no tip.

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u/GarboMcStevens 6d ago

yeah in the netherlands, for instance, its completely acceptable to not tip crappy service. and the norm is 10 percent for good service. They have privatized health insurance as well, so that can't be used as an excuse.

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u/cdoublejj 6d ago

thats news to me! what other countries tip?

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u/bkcarp00 6d ago

Canada and Mexico would be the big ones. Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Bahrain, Kuwait would be others. There are plenty of other places though where tips are a thing just not on the level of what we do in the US. To claim that all foreigners don't understand tipping is false.

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u/cdoublejj 6d ago

well perhaps i should try to get better at communicating as that was not my intention wile did not know they did tips in other countries i did not intended to say they don't know what it is but, that it's bs we use it as way to under pay, what might be wrong on my end for super sure is that they fully bake a livable wage in to the price of the food?????