Drinks at the American Hotel

Here we are solving all the world's problems over chardonnay. Dimintri is a friend of Steven's from Bulgaria who settled in Amsterdam several years ago. This beautiful art deco hotel offers an ideal ambiance for intimate discussion.
A word about service--waiters don't seem very interested the guests. Tipping isn't a customary practice. When we flagged the waiter down to order another drink, he told us that it was last call and we had to be out in a half an hour--did we think we could drink fast enough?
I asked another waitress at the Stedjhil Museum about tipping. She told me that some people tip, but not like Americans--everything is so expensive that people don't have money for tips or she added maybe what people say about the Dutch is true (she was Dutch) and that they are cheap. Ah, I didn't think about the idea of Dutch treat