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5 percent, 20 percent, nothing at all ... What tips do people give in Lebanon?
"The tip in Lebanon should be between 12 and 15 percent of the bill." This statement, attributed by LBCI to Tony Rami, president of the Lebanese syndicate of restaurants, cafés, nightclubs, and pastry shops, in early August, provoked an uproar on social media. Non-mandatory, the "bakshish" (Persian for 'to give') is an "option," he clarified to L'Orient-Le Jour. "I did not say it was imposed or a moral obligation. Generally, Lebanese leave between 12 and 15 percent." After six years of economic crisis during which the Lebanese pound lost about 98 percent of its value against the dollar, what is the real situation on the ground?'We can't even reach 10 percent this summer'For Abdelkarim Makki, manager at the upscale restaurant Assaha in Bourj al-Barajneh, in the southern...
