I'm from Korea. In korea, when we buy somethong, everything is include tax and we don't pay tip. but America is not. in USA, we should pay original price plus tax and when we sould to restuarant, we sould pay tip too. i going to tell about tax and tip.
I lived in korea for 21years. so I adapted about korea pay system. But 2 years ago, I came to USA. when I came to USA, everything is strange to me. However, one day, after I came to USA, I went to restuarant with my brother. But when we went to reatuarant, we had some problems.
after we ate our food, we got a check. and then i saw check our bill. However when I get our bill, I thought this bill is not ours. Because this bill is more expensive than we thought. so I said "this is not mine. I think you gave me other bill. can you check it?". however waiter said " surely, it is yours.". so i saw my bill againg. when I saw bill, i really embarrassed. buecause tax is not include.
So after we tald we are really sorry and then we paid about our bill. But we got other problem. After finished every paid, when we going to go out, waiter came to us and then he said "you didn't paid tip.". when we heared it. we really embarrassed and we thought "what is tip?"
Because we didn't know tip, I ask about tip to waiter. He said we have to pay tip 10~25% of origin price. finally, we paid tip. when we came back home, we searched about tip.
now we knew it. but when my brother and i came to USA first time, we didn't know about USA. When we went to reatuarant first time, we really embarrassed about tax and tip. I think it is our fault. Before we came to USA, we need study about USA. But we didn't. Whenever I think about that time, I still embarrassed.
This is a great example of the tipping culture here in the U.S. and how it can be embarrassing to immigrants who are not used to the tipping system. I had to learn the hard way too. If I don't have enough money to dine in, I won't go to the restaurant. I ask for take out if I have to.
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