>>And I don't tip in the USA either.
That can bite you in the US, not that I'm any kind of expert. I meekly cough up.
A friend of mine took some people out for a meal in NY, maybe 20 years ago. He paid the bill of $400 without adding a tip. The waiter asked him whether there had been a problem with the service, he said no. Waiter said something like "in that case sir, it is customary to add a tip for the server, about 15%". Friend told him that a tip is something freely given, not solicited, and declined the suggestion to cough up.
Subsequently he found his credit card didn't work. They had somehow got his card blocked.
Another friend was in the habit of leaving a $1 cash tip at a restaurant, Denny's or similar, next door to the motel he and his wife were staying at. After a few days of this, the waitress waited until he had reached the door as he was leaving, and called out "You call this a tip! A lousy buck!?"
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