I've made a few videos now about German things that I'm not really so good at doing.
But so today, let's look at something in Germany that I'm proud to say I think I
have finally truly mastered.
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Paying at restaurants in Germany and the U.S...it can't really be that different can it?
Yes, it can. And yes it is.
I went into a lot of detail on how paying works in American restaurants in this video
here, so you can check that out for more information on that.
But I would say that the big difference that I really struggled with and bumbled around
with the most was the level of secrecy.
What in the world do I mean by that?
Okay, so everything in the U.S. surrounding payment in restaurants is very hush-hush.
Literally and figuratively.
What you pay for the meal is just between you and the server.
The rest of the table doesn't have to find out, unless you tell them.
And basically, you can actually pay for the meal without having to talk to anyone about
the price.
Let's imagine this scenario for a second: you're out with some friends, and it's
their anniversary.
And so you actually wanted to take them out to dinner, you want to treat them.
You have a really great evening.
You get appetizers and meals and desserts.
And then the bill comes. It's time to pay.
In the U.S. you would be brought the check in a little black booklet for your eyes and
your eyes only.
You'd slip your cash or your credit card inside and then hand it back to the server.
They'd bring it back to you with a payment slip to sign if you paid with card and a receipt
for you.
Then you add in the tip or leave cash, shut the booklet and leave the restaurant with
your guests having no idea how much you just spent on dinner, and the server often doesn't
find out what you actually left as a tip until you're already gone.
Or at least halfway out the door.
Not the case in Germany.
In Germany at the end of the meal the server appears and asks if you're going to be paying
together or separately.
You say together and so then he or she either hands you a slip of paper with the amount
that you owe on it or even sometimes they will announce out loud how much you owe.
If you're paying cash, then you hand the server more than the amount and announce how
much they should make the full bill including their tip.
So for example, if the total came to twenty-five euros you might hand them thirty and
then say: make it twenty-eight.
Then they would give you back two euros.
Or you can hand them the full amount exactly as you'd like to pay; the amount that the
dinner costs plus the tip, and then say "Stimmt so," which basically means "keep the change."
And all of this used to be super stressful for me for a few different reasons.
For one, it meant actually speaking German, which especially when I first moved here was,
in and of itself, a very stressful situation for me.
And it also meant that I would have to say German numbers, which often tripped me up
even more than "normal" words because numbers here in Germany are kind of reverse.
So instead of saying twenty-one, in German it is literally one and twenty.
So my brain was already really struggling with all of that.
But I also just felt super awkward about the whole announcing of the bill and announcing
of the tip thing.
For one, if I was treating people to the meal, I didn't really want them to know how much
the whole thing had cost, how much I had just spent on them.
And then on top of that there was the tipping.
It just made me feel so awkward to announce what I was tipping both in front of the other
people at my table, and here in Germany, because of how it's done, basically you have to look
the server directly in the eyes and tell them how much you thought their service had been worth!
People here in Germany often assumed that I was a high tipper because I'm from America.
Nope!
It was actually because I just felt so awkward tipping anything less than a lot in that situation.
Especially when I first moved here and I didn't really yet know what was a "normal" tip in Germany.
But anyway, now I have really, totally gotten the hang of this!
Of course, okay, yes -- my German has improved so actually just speaking to the server is
no longer a problem.
Numbers do sometimes still trip me up, but then we all get a good laugh at it, so that's okay.
But the big thing here is that it really does not bother me anymore to announce my tip to
the servers or say in front of my friends how much I'm paying.
I finally figured out: why should I feel awkward about it?
It's just the way it is.
So my question for you is: which style of paying do you like more, the German one or
the U.S. one?
Or is there a different style of payment out there in the world that you prefer more?
And what has been your experience with tipping around the world?
Please let me know in the comments below.
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