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<\/figure>A rumor persits under FU-BEST students that we usually don’t tip in Germany. Where this is coming from we don’t know. This being said, surprisingly, if you google ‚tipping etiquette in Germany‘, one of the first things you find is that the tip is included in the bill and that it will be enough to simply round up. This, however, is not the case! Tips are not included in your bill and you should definitely tip at least 10%. This is true for restaurants, caf\u00e9s and bars alike.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
FU-BEST organizes a weekly Stammtisch<\/em> (regulars table) in different bars all over Berlin. This means there will be lots of opportunities for you to perfect your tipping game. The usual way to tip in Germany is to ask for the bill, check the amount you owe and then work out in your head what you\u2019re going to tip. When you are ready to pay, tell the waiter\/waitress out loud the amount in total, including the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A rumor persits under FU-BEST students that we usually don’t tip in Germany. Where this is coming from we don’t know. This being said, surprisingly, if you google ‚tipping etiquette in Germany‘, one of the first things you find is that the tip is included in the bill and that it will be enough to … \u201eTipping etiquette in Germany\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263635,263654],"tags":[263677,263635],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-abroad","category-misc","tag-how-to","tag-life-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/fubest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}