Taiwan's "service" charge

[Toasty]

@Buttercup

I’m not being obtuse. I understand, I just don’t understand why you are following some yellow brick road of weirdy Ameri-boy logic and tacking it onto other situations which have no parity. Lots of restaurants do it - it’s not a Taiwan thing. It’s ‘obtuse’, Mr Malaprop, to assume that firstly, paying for service simply involves giving the waitress 50NT to get herself a 7-11 sandwich on the way home, and secondly that any establishment is going to give 10% of its income to their lowest aid members of staff for no reason. Which countries do do that? An American-style gratuity for staff that is part of the bill?

You’re still dancing around the issues, which are the nomenclature of the charge and the need for it in the first place. You feel the name of the charge doesn’t mislead? Ok. I think it does. “Service” charge hints at a pourboire, or tip. I’m not the only one to think so. If it is just a part of the price, I question the need for it in the first place.

PS. re:“Ameri-boy… American-style”. I’m not sure how things are done in the States. Niether of my nationalities is American.

[Buttercup]

IT’S A TAAAAAX DODGE! IT’S NOT AN OPTIONAL GRATUITY!

[zender]

YOU JUST DON’T LIKE HIM CUZ HE LIKES TOAST! :raspberry:

AND STOP USING “AMERI-BOY” LIKE IT’S AN INSULT! :fume:

I’m tellin’ Mom :no-no: . . .uh . . . I mean the Mods.

[archylgp]

@Edgar Allen

I get more pissed off that Americans a) insist on tipping in their own country and b) do it elsewhere thus changing the expectation of the locals for all white people

Really?