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5, 10 or 15 percent? Card terminals are increasingly asking for tips.
You may have had to do this lately too: choosing what percentage tip you want to give on the card terminal when paying in a restaurant or bar. Or clicking ‘no tip’ after all.
The number of hospitality businesses doing this is growing, and we are also tipping more often when we have to choose. This is evident from figures shared by payment companies with the NOS. When giving such a tip, we most often choose 5 percent from the options of 5, 10, 15 percent, or a self-chosen amount.
Hospitality businesses using payment and software company Tebi can decide for themselves whether to display the menu. It turns out that at coffee shops where you order at a counter, the percentage of tippers skyrockets when they ask for a tip. Almost no one adds a tip by card if no request is displayed, but with a request, that figure is over 20 percent.
In upscale restaurants, customers often leave a tip by card anyway, even if not asked. With a tipping menu, even more people do so, according to the figures. Percentage of transactions with a tip
At surf school and beach bar The Shore in Scheveningen, they have been working with percentage tips for quite some time. During the pandemic, the business switched to card payments only. “Tips dropped drastically then,” says co-owner Thomas Franse.
In 2021, The Shore got a POS system that had that tipping option, and it was enabled. “That was definitely the moment the tips went up again.”
Franse has mixed feelings about asking for tips. “It is not the best customer experience. In the beginning, we received quite a lot of negative reactions alongside the positive ones. However, it is an important source of income for the staff.” He also notices customers getting used to it now, because more and more hospitality businesses are doing it. A tip menu on a card reader
Payment company Adyen compiled data on the proportion of hospitality business owners who are customers of their establishments who use a custom tipping menu. For restaurants, this rose from 19 percent in the first half of 2025 to 22 percent in the first half of 2026. For bars and cafes, it rose from 46 to 53 percent.
“This indicates that this is increasingly becoming a standard part of modern payment processes in the hospitality industry,” says Julien Marlier, Benelux Manager. On card terminals where the tipping function is active, 61 percent choose ‘no tip’. Consequently, 39 percent do leave a tip, averaging 4.31 euros.
Tebi also has figures on the percentage we select when giving a tip. Most often, people choose 5 percent. “About a quarter enter their own, usually small, amount,” says general manager Florian Brunsting. “High ‘American’ tip amounts are hardly ever seen.” In the US, a tip of at least 20 percent is expected in restaurants. How much tip should we give?
The Irish pub Mick O’Connells in Utrecht also has card readers with tip requests. “It is sometimes quite surprising who does and doesn’t give a tip,” says manager James O’Halloran. “Young students, from whom you wouldn’t expect a tip, might give 5 or 10 percent. Wealthier bank employees sometimes give nothing at all.”
The tip is usually 5 percent, he notes as well. “On average, we receive about 3,500 to 4,000 euros in tips monthly. That is distributed entirely among employees, based on the number of working hours.” On average, it amounts to about 2 euros per hour. Less personal
Restaurant and bar patrons react differently to tip requests. “I didn’t give a tip,” says Sophie, who ordered at the counter at a salad bar in Utrecht and had to choose. “I find it less personal. It’s just: here, do you want to give a tip or not?”
“I like it because then I can choose for myself what, if anything, to give,” says a visitor to The Shore in Scheveningen. He gave a 5 percent tip. “People work hard for it. So it’s nice to give a little something extra.” More often in Amsterdam
Whether entrepreneurs opt for a tip menu varies by region. For instance, in Amsterdam, over 30 percent of Tebi customers have enabled the feature, whereas in Nijmegen, for example, it is only 10 percent.
During a survey in Den Bosch, several hospitality businesses said they did not want to get involved. “I’m not really a fan of it,” says Marc Bouman of Brasserij Breton. “I’m not going to push tips unnecessarily; people give it if they want to.”
“If you show that choice, people might feel forced,” says Angie Joosten of Café CinQ. “For us, it works just fine to leave it entirely up to each individual.”
NOOOOOO!!
Kill it with fire. Never let that disease metastasize from the US.
As an American. No, just no.
I don’t mind the idea of tipping of someone thag goes above and beyond what’s expected. That being said fuck tipping by percent of the total bill. I refuse to pay someone more money simply because they work at a snobby restaurant. The waitress pulling a double at a diner gets more from me and my $10 bill.
The tipping system is horrendous and punishes the food servers. People need to go back and understand why it started in the first place.
its the guilt tripping and begging from the business that gets annoying.
Just wait, the next step is making you watch an ad before you can click on the tip screen while a video game face frowns or smiles depending on how far you slide the tip bar
Good. Enshittify the world. I’m sick of people acting like these global corps are only Americans. Nah, this is humanity, bitches. Enjoy!
hell no this needs to go away
Honestly, even if we got rid of tipping all together, I’d probably still tip when I can. Even jobs like McDonald’s, I’ll slip a 2 or more if I can to person. Like the person taking out the trash or the cook. If I get a chance, without risking their job
Cause at the end of the day, I know that even sometimes, those $2 or $5 end up saving the day. Plenty of times, a tip has saved me from going hungry or missing rent.
I guess saying this, I’ve come to feel that tipping isn’t a bad thing. It’s a way to tell a worker that you appreciate them. What is a bad thing is when the government takes advantage of the kind nature of our fellow humans to hold down the workers.
Pay people livable wages, and allow folks to tip no matter the job if they want.
The staff suffers the most from the default tip. It puts them permanently on edge, and makes their job needlessly stressful. It is much better for the staff not to have to think about money at all while trying to do their job. In countries without the default tip, staff salaries are commensurately higher.
I went to the movies for the first time in a while. Grabbed some overpriced popcorn and before paying the screen asked me if I wanted to tip.
We never tipped the movie theater staff. It wasn’t even an option when I went to the movies in the 90s - 10s. Wtaf?
Well it can get stuffed.
Was very popular in Paris when we visted this year. But only at the tourist places. I assume they just rake in from tourists bot knowing any better.
No local shops asked for this
Whenever I see that shit here I tip nothing
And I always thought they were smart people. Oh well.
They are. That’s why they have this. When it comes to right wing vs left wing values in all countries, the right win every time. They don’t quit on their goals
Boehahahahaha!! Left leaning always wins mate. Which is why we no longer have slaves or child labor, gays are accepted, you can marry anyone with any color, less and less religion.
Time favors socialists. Thank fuck.
Is this winning?
16000 votes 287000 views
Like I get the touch grass mentality and that nothing online ever matters. But that’s a lie. People see this. Kids see it. Over and over and over again. This is the consequence of retreat.
They have channels that they promote these things to. They raise awareness. They treat the smallest bullshit like its a competition and they win. The consequence of that is when a big challenge or event shows up then they have the network in place to succeed. They can disseminate information rapidly. They can bring attention to their cause. They can defend their people.
The left does the opposite. We say go outside, nothing matters, go meet people at a coffee shop and chill guy. Meanwhile nobody but us are aware of our issues. The people sticking their necks out get crucified without support. It’s just so messed up how far we’ve retreated over being uncomfortable. And look at the people here who reinforce it. They’ll call me a nazi sympathizer if I say we should be on these platforms fact checking these fucks or putting up resistance where the people are.
Or how about this one?
So I get the feeling that people on the left want to ignore this. But it is getting insane. When leftist left all at once it cleared a path for these people. It means the base changed and these companies respond to their base. If nobody is there to call this stuff out and report then it spreads. Right now groups like this are marketed to kids and teens and young men. Deciding to ignore it today is only postponing when you need to handle it but when you do it’ll be much bigger and difficult to handle
Now I need to sit down, read this a couple of times. This is bringing me down…
No you don’t. Historically it’s been like 100 years that we had a little break the rest is slavery, child labor and suffering. Us on the left needed to fight our fucking asses off to maintain this. But look at you fucking people. They annoyed you and that was enough to gave up every territory to them. Now they’re in the eyes and ears of the population and you’re here with me
Money, unfortunately, talks.
I’m starting to believe it isn’t just money though. Money certainly helps them establish groups and make it look like their engagement is bigger. I really am starting to see the we’re playing two completely different games.
The left is being convinced to disengage, retreat, ignore social media in favor of high energy, high effort high organizational requirement activism while the right are using digital tools and basic online methods to spread their activism.
Everybody on the right seems like they’re pushing social media content 24/7 in groups with minimal moderation in favor of keeping energy and momentum going for every topic. While the left are in these highly moderated hug boxes with major separation of concerns that stifle momentum on any current event.
American here: Fuck off, “American style” tipping needs to die.
That would require service workers to earn a living wage, which is impossible. Simply can’t be done. Would be too hard for any business to bare. Sorry.
Simply can’t be done.
There are countries (Iceland for one) where restaurant workers are paid a living wage and tipping is barely a thing. So yes, it can be done. And, because there are more people paid a living wage, there’s more demand for restaurants and cafes. It’s a virtuous cycle.
If you’re business is to force people to be asked for a tip, it sounds kind of gay to me. Or, maybe, like you want happiness, and that you think you can push the idea to push the idea on to other because you think that their happiness will make you happy. You think this is Moonside. You forgot what Fourside was supposed to be before everyone forgot what Money was supposed to be when the Mani-Mani Statue made all the things attack you unless you started speaking backwards.
You…Like…Or…Well…New…Speak.
Sure, it was a decade late to this Earthbound detailed expansion but you can get a really good comic laying out the detailed foundation of the New Speakeasy crack it like a Nerd. Unless…of course…you fucking horse…that maybe that’s how you like your gayness. Some kind of Hermetic “social” force gay wizardNess, maybe?
Whatever. Pokey. Whatever you makes you “happy” dude. But stop shoving it down other people’s holes isn’t a real light to the issue, guy, gas.
Turns out, Uriah Heep was pretty on it, with Firefly. Not enough people Listened to it then and Whedon was rather spot on with Reavers being the natural product. Of course, everyone thinks it was the dope but that’s just the logical product of forcing your point into everyone’s holes, thinking you know what gay is.
Come here, cuz I can “show” you well. Whatallnall, with what you’ve been trying so hard, thinking you can be stealing the Runaway Five’s laid path.
Yeah, see, you like it like that, I can see you saying it backwards like that. There’s even a new, well done, Comic for that 1948’s “premonition,” written dam near biblicall to stop the flood you think you’re prepping for.
What’s all that about the gang? Hold on to your feet now…
