Tipping in Canada: What you need to know
CNNCNN — Canadians like to tip. There was a flurry of controversy last year when a popular tourist restaurant in Quebec City, the province’s second largest urban center, tacked on a 15% charge to a Vancouverite of Asian descent, revealing a long-standing practice of charging Asian tourists what amounted to a service charge. EVA HAMBACH/AFP/AFP/Getty Images But it’s not only Quebec restaurants – where servers and bartenders make a minimum of $9.80 an hour – that expect a tip. A nationwide boycott ensued, Canadian Twitter erupted in outrage, and people were standing outside Tim Horton’s locations handing out tips to employees when they finished their shifts or took mid-shift breaks. Canada’s national rail service is often mocked, but much loved – a fact that is illustrated by about a third of its passengers on the busy Windsor-Quebec City rail corridor tipping their attendants when they order coffee or snacks.
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