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[–] 123 points 2 days ago (16 children)

This is so weird to read as a European.. Tips here are almost frowned upon

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  • [–] 41 points 2 days ago (12 children)

    In Germany it's pretty common to tip a bit, even if not nearly as much as in the US. I wouldn't know what to tip for a 300€ order though because... What the fuck, did they order cocaine?

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    300 is a round number already though. So no tip? 298.56 I could see rounding to 300 though.

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  • [+] -9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    0.5% - you might as well not bother as it's almost more of an insult than not tipping at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Yeah you see this is why we're calling tip culture toxic, if it makes you unable to appreciate someone doing you a favour, no matter how small, you are the problem, not the others with their weird "minimal wage actually sufficient to live" society. Most often, we tip 1 or 2 euros to our waiter if we enjoyed our meal, as a small thank you, and because we know they can otherwise get paid a true living wage just from the price we paid in the first place.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I would try $5, they might not understand our currency

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    No fuck them I say. They cannot even be bothered to tip in € when they come here. If I ever visit their godforsaken land again I will tip them in € out of spite

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    The fun thing is that we'd be expected to pay between 15 and 20 percent on such an order.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    In many cases, yes. But when it comes to delivery services like this that has a history of underpaying and bad working conditions it just makes sense to tip IMO, and absolutely do it in hand and not via the app or whatever. I very rarely order food, and when I do I always try to stay clear of these kinds of delivery services. But it's often hard to so, and when there's no other option I always choose something that has a deal and then give the difference to what it would have been directly to the delivery person (not sure what the right word here is).
    About a month ago I was at my moms place with my half brother and the local delivery app, foodora, had a 40% deal for any order from our favourite pizzeria so that was an obvious choice, when I gave the 40% of the total to the delivery person they almost started crying and that just felt so damn good. It absolutely sucks that this situation even happened, they should be paid more and have way better working conditions etc. but we all do what little we can with the reality we're in. I made some actual difference for someone and I'll take that.

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