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Well Kabikucho is in Tokyo haha. It gets really bad every night and they clean it up in the mid morning. At around 7am it's shocking how dirty it is; a complete mind blower compared to how clean you get used to everything being.
Well, this is supposedly Osaka's "dirty" place: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.6687543,135.5013888,2a,75y,3...
These sort of articles about Japanese cleanliness and homelessness are intellectually dishonest if you don't mention massive factors like the fact that Japan eschewed the deinstitutionalization process that most wealthy countries went through toward the end of the 20th century https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation and as a result, they have four times the rate of involuntarily locking people up for m…
Bringing in the subject of homelessness seems tangential to the topic at hand.
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>Out of curiosity, do people in UK tip? Not in a fast-food restaurant, no. You'll often see folks in cafés help out and return their trays, but it's not a guarantee - and in some establishments it's not even possible for you as a customer to do this. At the end of the day, you're paying to sit down - and clearing your table afterwards is priced into the food offer. Fast food is a bit more of a grey area, since there'…
I tidy up or not based on whether there's table service. No table service = I do it myself, table service = it's somebody else's problem. I don't think anybody ever taught me this explicitly - it's just something I must have picked up, I suppose? I don't think it's really all that outrageous to just leave the detritus on the table in either case. But when there's no table service, the tables won't be getting cleared…
until that and the mentality changes, nothing will change in the west
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In a fast food restaurant where there is a bin where customers are supposed to throw their trash then I’m assuming I’m actually not paying to have it done. That is: there isn’t staff enough to handle it, and those that leave their tray just ensure that prices go up (since they are using a service they didn’t pay for). I have never left a tray in a fast food restaurant in 40 years.
I would imagine most restaurants wouldn't want customers walking around clumsily with trays of dirty plates. They don't know what they're doing and they'd be brushing past other customers unnecessarily. In a restaurant you're paying for an experience and I think it's totally reasonable for part of that experience to be someone clearing plates away after courses.
Sadly, this is the opposite of the UK cultural attitude. Kids here learn that cleaning up is someone else’s responsibility. Littering becomes a habit from an early age. Even compared to Americans, we are terrible litterers. You can see this in people’s behaviours in fast food restaurants: in the US (as in many other countries), customers will bin their food wrappers and return their tray when they leave. Even groups…
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There's usually a 12.5% service charge in restaurants, but I've rarely seen tipping (I'm a foreigner living in London)
That 12.5% service charge is a tip (you don't have to pay it if you don't want to, and it will generally go to the servers).