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**flower-buy** · 03-27-2006, 07:00 AM

Hello

We don't have 'tipping' here in Australia. A lot of tourists I see/meet tend not to realise this. Actually, the other day I was eating lunch at a cafe with friends and an american couple came in (for whatever they were going to have). They paid, ate, put a tip on the table and then went to leave. They looked so confused as to what they had done wrong when the cafe assistant tried to stop them from leaving (to give them back the money left on the table). Food/whatever is paid for before you even sit down over here...then you get to eat

.....and tips just don't exist.

03-27-2006, 07:00 AM	#7
flower-buy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 377 Senior Member	Hello We don't have 'tipping' here in Australia. A lot of tourists I see/meet tend not to realise this. Actually, the other day I was eating lunch at a cafe with friends and an american couple came in (for whatever they were going to have). They paid, ate, put a tip on the table and then went to leave. They looked so confused as to what they had done wrong when the cafe assistant tried to stop them from leaving (to give them back the money left on the table). Food/whatever is paid for before you even sit down over here...then you get to eat .....and tips just don't exist.
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