Don't get me started on tipping. I live in Canada, where servers are paid at least minimum wage. I believe two provinces allow alcohol servers to be paid 50 cents an hour less. So your waiter is already making at least $10 an hour just for showing up. Is it great money? No, but it's the same as in many industries in which workers are not tipped. Yet wait staff are looking for 20% tips, because that's what happens in the US. The suggested tip on point of sale machines are 15, 18 and 20%. Our sales tax is also 15%, and the machine calculates tip on the post tax amount. I just choose "other amount" and manually enter the figure that I was charged as 15% tax.