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World Cup Visitors, Unpaid Tips, and a Forced-Gratuity Fight

Restaurants in New York complained that World Cup visitors often leave without tipping, and some establishments began automatically adding gratuities. The story set off a heated Japanese argument: tip-skeptics want prices to simply include the charge and mock US service, while others say Japanese visitors who lecture foreigners about “when in Rome” should follow local tipping norms themselves.