As an American, may I suggest you Europeans start a social media movement to boycott all businesses in Europe which have that tip screen on their card terminals, before the cancer solidifies its foothold in your home? We won't get rid of tipping here until we get a superdepression for a number of years and no restaraunt operates anymore because literally nobody can afford it.

Tipping has existed for decades, just not on the level as the US. It hasn't become a cancer.

Oh you just wait. The camel sticks its nose in the tent: if you fail to swat it, you will soon find the whole camel in the tent with you.

I haven’t noticed such thing, but maybe you are right. I think that Switzerland is completely different than other parts of Europe and it is hard to compare with.

I think it's software is made with the American market in mind. And local businesses use it as is and profit.

Yeah that was my assumption as well.

There's no custom of tipping that much at any of these places, but I feel cheap just clicking the lowest (no tip) of 4 options. Maybe all the time I've lived in the US plays a role here but it seems like it might just be the decoy effect [1] applied to tipping. It will be interesting to see if consumers see this as a dark pattern and push back.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoy_effect

In Sweden a lot of the software with tipping option is made by Swedish companies who only operate on the Nordic markets.

Sometimes it's ridiculous enough that the waiter is the one pressing "0%" to switch directly to payment, e.g. when you get your order at the bar yourself and the amount of service is minimal.