🍽️ Restaurant - 0-10% or Round Up If Satisfied
🍹 Bar - Not Expected - 0-10%
☕️ Café - Not Expected - 0-10%
🚕 Taxi - Not Expected - Can Round Up
🛎️ Porter/Bellhop - Not Expected - Can Tip Kr5-10
🛏️ Housekeeping - Not Expected - Can Tip Kr5-10/Day
📸 Paid Tour Guide - Not Expected
🚶 Free Tour Guide - Expected - What You Deem Fair
In Sweden, tips or “dricks” are completely at your discretion and not expected in a lot of situations. In any case, if you believe you’ve paid a fair price, feel free not to tip.
Calculate a culturally appropriate tip for Sweden using the calculator below and read on for more detail on tipping in Restaurants, Cafés, Bars, Taxis, Hotels etc.
When dining out in Sweden, feel free to tip 0-10% for good food or service. Anything over that is unnecessary. Alternatively, just round up your bill (e.g. Kr280 becomes Kr300).
You’re not likely to offend anyone if you skip the tip since most Swedes take the view that the service is really built into the price.
Also, Swedish unions tend to object to tipping as they’d rather the employer retained the responsibility for the server’s income.
It’s more common to tip in high-end restaurants and for dinner service (less so for breakfast or lunch).
Regarding cash/card tips, as Sweden trends towards becoming a cashless society, you’ll find some establishments don’t even give you the option to pay or tip cash meaning card is the only option.
If they hand you the card machine, you may be able to select a tip or enter a larger total (including tip) but that’s not always the case.
Wherever you’re dining in Sweden, you’re unlikely to feel any pressure to tip and you won’t cause any offense if you choose not to.
Whether you tip or not, a polite “tack så mycket” (Swedish for “thank you very much”) always goes a long way if you’ve enjoyed your experience.
