Tip (tip, gratuity)

A payment in cash as special recognition for a service (gratuity to be given in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on) and common especially in the hotel and restaurant industry. There it is often included in the price of the service as service money (bakshish; bakshish). In old documents, the tip is also called bath money, cup money, bibal money and gratial. A widespread – obviously at bottom humorously meant – etymology for “tip” states that it is an abbreviation which stands for “to insure promptness.” – Payment of money for the purpose of obtaining special advantages, especially from public officials (bribe; hand money, bribe; also called grease money in older literature). – In old documents, often also a levy on the consumption of beer, wine and cider, practically a beverage tax; in some areas also formerly called Datzgeld and Detz. – In breweries, also in some cases still today, a token (chip, token) with which employees can obtain a certain amount of free beer from the employer as a payment in kind; the Haustrunk used to be a fixed salary component of the brewers. – See Severance pay, Beer money, Douceur, Friendship business, Secret money, Money payment gesture, Equal money, Coffee cash, Kruger money, Octroi, Peep, Préstamo, Shipowner money, Refund, Suff money, Taxe, Umgeld, Ungeld, Centimeter money.

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