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Nicaragua: Tips Can Be Suggested on Bills

Without contradicting the provisions of law which state that tipping must be voluntary, the regulation approves phrases which suggest the possibility of the amount which can be paid and including it in the bill.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

This is how it is described in the regulation of the Law on protection of the rights of consumers and users, published last week in the newspaper La Gaceta.

Laprensa.com.ni reports: "The regulation reiterates the voluntariness of the tip, however, Article 3 says that the tip can be suggested."

"The customer is the one who decides if they will pay this amount or less, given as a contribution," said Marcial Cabrera, secretary of the United Federation of Food, Agribusiness, Tourism, Services, Trade and related businesses in Nicaragua (FUTATSCON).

Source: laprensa.com.ni

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La Gaceta Nicaragua Federación Unitaria Trabajadores de la Alimentación, la Agroindustria, el Turismo, el Servicio, Comercio y conexos de Nicaragua Marcial Cabrera

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Nicaragua

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Nicaragua: Tipping to Be Voluntary

September 2013

From October 11th tipping in restaurants and other service establishments will be voluntary and will not be included in the calculation of the bill.

This was explained Orlando Solorzano, Minister of Development, Industry and Trade (Mific). "On that date, the Law on Protection of the Rights of Consumers and Users comes into force, which contains an article which prohibits service providers from including the gratuity in the price and in the calculation of the bill, or any allusion to the same," reported Elnuevodiario.com.ni.

Nicaragua: Tips Should Be Voluntary

August 2013

The business community believes that tips in restaurants and hotels should be voluntary and not included on bills.

The president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise (Cosep), Joseph Adam Aguerri and Eduardo Fonseca, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce of Nicaragua (Caconic) agree on the matter.