Tipping for bar meals

[Dimplenose]

I'm going to Canada this summer but think the tipping etiquette is the same as in the USA.

I think we'll be eating a few bar meals while we are there. What are the mechanics for paying the tip? When we order, when we leave, how do we do it?

Thanks for any clues.

 

[Jon84]

We ate a Bar Meal at the Boathouse at Disney Springs. The bill had the suggested tip on it as usual, they put down the bill straight after ordering, and then kept replacing it as we added more drinks (whoops!). We then just settled before we left, adding the tip at that point.

I am guessing you might get different variations at different, bars, or with different Bar Tenders.

 

[Woodview]

The question is for " Tipping " in Canada .... not in USA .

I would like a reply to this as we are going to Vancouver in August .

 

[Jon84]

I can't imagine the mechanics are much different between the two countries.

Much the same as its a similar process in the UK in the same situation

Maybe the post should go in the Canada section?

 

[Dimplenose]

Thank you both for your replies. We'll be in Vancouver in August too

Everything I have read leads me to believe tipping is the same in Canada as US.

I'm not experienced in bar meals in this country let alone abroad. We'll be travelling for the first week of our holiday so don't want to be tied to restaurant bookings so thought bar meals would be the way to go. When I have ordered at a bar/pub over here I've paid up front and there doesn't seem to be an opportunity to tip the waiting/serving/table clearing staff.

I can always ask when I order, but I wanted to be prepared.

 

[Woodview]

28th Heathrow to Vancouver ,,,,,,, 4 days in Victoria ... then Whistler . Kamloops , Revelstoke , into USA to Priests River ( Idaho )

Spokane, Grand Coulee Dam , Leavenworth & back into Vancouver ...

Fly back on 13th September

 

[Dimplenose]

That sounds exciting. We're flying into Calgary and out of Vancouver. Our first week we're going to drive through the Rockies and then spend most of the second week in Vancouver. I juts wish we could stay for longer.

 

[Ware Bears]

I've been to Vancouver twice and found everywhere we ate, even when it was just a bar meal we would be given the bill to settle afterwards, not at point of ordering. We tipped the same as in the US, and always give it in cash to whoever serves us, it's up to them then whether they share it with others.

 

[disneyholic family]

tipping in canada is the same as in the US...same percentage/expectations