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25-10-2012, 09:11
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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GupiZ_qHnfc/UIehYJXf2qI/AAAAAAAAD2I/vjXCpnmNwD8/s320/IMAG0765.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GupiZ_qHnfc/UIehYJXf2qI/AAAAAAAAD2I/vjXCpnmNwD8/s1600/IMAG0765.jpg)I meant to post about this way back in August, but forgot. I came across the photo when I was looking for something else. My readers will know I go to Germany a lot. I like it there and it is a place where you tend to know what is what. Once you've worked it out or read up on it that is. When I first started to go to Germany a good number of beers years ago, I looked up customs and etiquette, one of which was about tipping. The advice then, as now is "It is typical to "round up" the amount to some more-or-less round figure generally ending with a full Euro amount." Of course it was a Deutsche Mark then.
It is a kind of odd situation on some ways. Tipping nothing at all is still perfectly acceptable for, say, a single drink, or even a meal, but the simple rounding up works. Waiters and waitresses don't need tips to survive as they are paid a decent wage by and large, but of course it is nice to be given something and a few coins for pleasant service is a worthwhile investment. The point is that it is not expected. If you have a look at the bill illustrating this entry you will see something I haven't seen before. "Tip is not included." It was our last day in Berlin and I haven't yet been back, so it was perhaps not typical. We didn't see it anywhere else, yet there it was.
This is another unwelcome creeping Americanisation which I for one could do without. Anyone else noticed this in Germany?
I probably just rounded it to €22https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8629758183547510158-4423428088856448099?l=tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.c om
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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GupiZ_qHnfc/UIehYJXf2qI/AAAAAAAAD2I/vjXCpnmNwD8/s320/IMAG0765.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GupiZ_qHnfc/UIehYJXf2qI/AAAAAAAAD2I/vjXCpnmNwD8/s1600/IMAG0765.jpg)I meant to post about this way back in August, but forgot. I came across the photo when I was looking for something else. My readers will know I go to Germany a lot. I like it there and it is a place where you tend to know what is what. Once you've worked it out or read up on it that is. When I first started to go to Germany a good number of beers years ago, I looked up customs and etiquette, one of which was about tipping. The advice then, as now is "It is typical to "round up" the amount to some more-or-less round figure generally ending with a full Euro amount." Of course it was a Deutsche Mark then.
It is a kind of odd situation on some ways. Tipping nothing at all is still perfectly acceptable for, say, a single drink, or even a meal, but the simple rounding up works. Waiters and waitresses don't need tips to survive as they are paid a decent wage by and large, but of course it is nice to be given something and a few coins for pleasant service is a worthwhile investment. The point is that it is not expected. If you have a look at the bill illustrating this entry you will see something I haven't seen before. "Tip is not included." It was our last day in Berlin and I haven't yet been back, so it was perhaps not typical. We didn't see it anywhere else, yet there it was.
This is another unwelcome creeping Americanisation which I for one could do without. Anyone else noticed this in Germany?
I probably just rounded it to €22https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8629758183547510158-4423428088856448099?l=tandlemanbeerblog.blogspot.c om
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