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mschuster91today at 12:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

> I live in a touristy part of the world and effectively all restaurants above baseline level will have a "+7% service +11% tax" line.

In Germany and Croatia, there is no % at all, the prices are final and include all taxes and fees by law and no one will bat an eye if you pay straight cash - however I personally always tip around 10%, simply because I was happy about that when I worked in hospitality myself.


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SOLAR_FIELDStoday at 12:30 PM

It’s not just Europe, most of the developed world works like this. Except for the United States

anilakartoday at 1:04 PM

When I was in high school my German teacher taught us to tip by default by rounding up and paying with exact change. Is that still a thing when everyone is paying with card?

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