that has been my experience at least.

which is standard in a lot of european countries. I think it's 15% in Italy

Zuckerberg should always tip at least 30% whether theres a "service" fee or not. He has 20 Billion dollars, he can afford it.

...but yeah, what the hell. Cheap is cheap. The receipt below is from the same URL as my OP.

...that being said, very few people tip in Rome, and NOBODY would tip on their credit card bill.

To round up to 30%, unless I have had horrible service. It is customary to tip over the service charge for good service. However, wait staff in EU countries actually make a REAL WAGE, and most have affordable health care.

I actually once got the service charge taken OFF my bill in London. It was the worst service I have ever had, I mean, atrocious. The waiter disappeared for literally 45 minutes, and our food was stone cold when we received it. And was the wrong food.

Having said that, I have had people in European countries (and Britain!) tell me they hold Americans who tip too much in contempt, and I had a waitress in Germany pinch my cheek and tell me she loved Americans, because they reward hard work and good service (she liked the tip).

Zuck should have tipped more.

He left the wait staff some Facebook shares

Typically, waiters are better paid there and the custom is either not to tip or tip exceptional service but not customary service.

Sounds so good!

Never liked them. There are restaurants near me that put them in almost every entree, and some of the appetizers. Bleh!

Z. simply chose not to add anything more.

expect tips because they are well paid without them. And I believe gratuity is always included in the total automatically.

But it's not listed on the one in the photo with the article.

Freaks.

Wealth is wasted on them.

in my experience. Is this not the case in Italy?

He still could have left a tip. Just my own humble opinion. Didn't have to be a huge one.

it is a custom here in the US

but has since declared himself an atheist.

So leaving a Jewish diner without leaving a tip underscores his cheapness. I don't mean to suggest you only tip in restaurants with whom you have some religious, ethnic or other affiliation but still.

And I don't believe the part about him being an atheist. He has just replaced the spiritual God of the Jews, Yahweh, with money. It is the Republican's favorite God. They use the spiritual ones as an excuse to demonize everyone else but their true, only god is MONEY.

That's why they are slowly coalescing around their new god, RMoney = Republican Money or Republican God since Money = God to them.

besides, "Jews are cheap"

Or is it "Jews worship money"

Help me out here.

the poster went a long long way to not say what he's not saying and not sure what else he said .....

"I don't mean to suggest you only tip in restaurants with whom you have some religious, ethnic or other affiliation but still."

I'd love to see the comments/reasoning for letting this stand.

6 jurors, 1 alerter

7 people with the results

He's had money for quite a few years now and has undoubtedly gone out to eat numerous times....so what if he didn't leave a tip once, either for bad service or maybe he DID leave a tip on the table or maybe he just forgot. He's human. I'm sure glad my every move isn't scrutinized like his....that's probably not worth the billions of $$$ right there.

When my wife and I honeymooned in Italy (which we're still paying off btw) we rarely tipped as well. We even left a tip at once place and had the waiter refuse.

next outrage, kplxthx.

Rome's been finding ways of milking tourists for 2000 years, and based on my limited experience they have ways of extracting extra money in restaurant charges. - that's why they have the bread charge, whether you want it or not (the 3 euro charge for pane). In places that have service included, though, I usually round up - it makes for better service on return visits.

I hope that's it.

how long has he been a 1%er? Already he thinks he's going to take it with him to the next life.

I so don't care about Zuckerberg and how generous he is (or isn't). It's interesting what the "media" decides is newsworthy sometimes.

Next outrage, please...