Honeslty, if a server is quality checking you every 3 minutes she probably likes you since that is excessive or you’ve looked angry about receiving service since you walked in the door and since she doesn’t work in the tourism industry she doesn’t understand that’s a UK thing. People from the UK are some of the most annoying people to serve, I’ve had so many people be outright rude to me because I’m doing my job, and now they’re mad they feel like they need to tip. Like, I actually enjoy my job and make a living wage stop being an asshole to me for checking if your food was cooked properly. Its not about tipping, it’s about what we consider service here. The ones who are capable of getting passed the tipping thing and just understanding the service is different relax and enjoy themselves. Naming the point “tipping” instead of something like “dining” makes it pretty obvious he couldn’t get past one cultural different to just enjoy the rest.

I can guarantee you this author would put down American travelers for thinking servers should just check up on them instead of making them get up and serve themselves in their country. I actually like serving Americans and find that they’re some of the best travellers at least to Canada. They’re also the most self conscious and it bothers me so much when I’m almost always happy to see them. The high horse Europeans put themselves on for traveling is ridiculous, the only people I would rather serve less are people from countries that have extremely different cultures that are harder to adjust from.

Americans are fine, this article is just another pretentious European needing to shit on Americans.