Restaurant Tipping

• Quebec’s tipping bill gets mixed reaction from Montreal restaurants

  Quebec tabled a bill on Thursday that would regulate how merchants determine suggested tips, forcing businesses to calculate them based on the price before tax. 

  Canada

  Sep 15, 2024
  
• Quebec looks to change how restaurants calculate tips with new bill

  That means on a restaurant bill of $100, suggested tips would be calculated based on $100, not on $114.98 after provincial and federal sales taxes are added.

  Canada

  Sep 12, 2024
  
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• Canadians think tipping is ‘getting out of control,’ new poll suggest

  "Being asked all the time, I think it has this compounding guilt effect,” Angus Reid Institute Research Director David Korinski told 'The Roy Green Show.'

  Canada

  Feb 19, 2023
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• As economy recovers, some Toronto restaurants to end tipping

  Each of them has instead implemented what is known as a "hospitality included" fee -- essentially an enforced gratuity, usually set at 18 per cent of the bill.

  Canada

  Aug 13, 2020
• ‘It’s the right thing to do’: Toronto restaurant scraps tipping

  A Toronto restaurant has stopped accepting in tips in move the owner says is an effort to more fairly compensate staff.

  Canada

  Aug 2, 2020
• Customers fear ‘tip shaming’ as gratuity expectations grow

  With the rise of pre-calculated tipping options, consumers are prompted to pay gratuity in unfamiliar circumstances. Options in the 20-25-30 per cent range pop up with increasing frequency.

  Canada

  Jun 19, 2017