mtv site special:
Millions of workers around the world rely on tips or tips to secure additional salaries for services in their fields of work, ensuring that they are “excellent” and that customer satisfaction translates into a “fat” amount of money left with the bill.
The service sectors were greatly affected during the “Corona” pandemic, so restaurants, cabarets, beauty salons and other businesses were closed, but in return, the demand for delivery services increased, and thousands of workers in Lebanon as well as in the world benefited from their jobs and the tips left to them.
Today, with the intensification of the economic crisis, tipping has become more of a burden on citizens, because if the percentage is calculated on the basis of a bill in a restaurant, for example, amounting to two million five hundred thousand pounds, the rate of tipping in Lebanon is the customary 10 percent of 250 thousand pounds, which was previously Enough to feed 4 people in the most luxurious restaurants, is tipping a thing of the past?
Young Paul El-Khoury, a waiter in a restaurant, explains that “I have to work to secure my university tuition, which has become in dollars, and the basis of my salary in the restaurant does not provide me with a large amount of money. Therefore, I rely on tips to collect the premium,” indicating to MTV. He added, “It seems remarkable that many are adapting to the crisis and to the large numbers of payments, while the tip, if it was left, at the beginning of the crisis did not touch the 5 percent, today the 10 percent returns to most bills, and there are those who are able to leave a larger proportion.” Feel the situation and encourage us.”
For his part, taxi driver Riad Mezher criticizes the economic and social situation in Lebanon. He tells our website: “The collapse has hit our profession to the core, and the taxi driver in Lebanon has become very poor,” adding, “Before the crisis, we used to benefit from some tips, but today this has changed.” Because the taxi fare for the Lebanese customer is very high, and he no longer asks for a car except when absolutely needed, but for us, it is barely enough for the price of petrol.”
As for Rania Matar, who works in a beauty salon, she pointed out to our website that “the movement of customers is back as before, as Lebanese women are keen to take care of their beauty periodically and permanently, and as prices have risen, so has the tip rate, for example, we are left with an amount of 50 thousand pounds. Sometimes for cosmetic services.
Tipping has been absent from many sectors in Lebanon, especially from those that are considered essential, such as transportation, for example.
It remains the most important thing to always remember that Fi who works in various of these sectors is in dire need of every amount of money, even if it is simple, far from the percentages and customary habits…