Paying in Bars and Restaurants

When you enter a Brazilian restaurant, you often receive a little form. Keep this with you as your bill will be written on it. When you leave, you hand this form over to the cashier at the checkout and you pay your bill. Brazilians consider it more hygienic if the people who serve the food do not touch the money. In addition to that, it is easier for the shopkeeper to control his personnel if only one person is responsible for all payments.

Sometimes you pay a 10% tip for serving or for life music in a bar. Legally, it is not obligatory to pay this but usually nobody complains.