10-19-2006, 04:28 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Germany
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Originally Posted by Kuifje75
A question for you Liebling.
Hypothecially, (since I know you wont, as you say you never would) you went to an expensive restaurant in Germany. The restaurant's menu says that a service charge is added to the bill, and will be 15 percent.
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I have no problem to answer your hypothecial question but I only want to tell you that there´re no additional service charge here in Germany... Service charge is alway include in every meals.
I think we should talk example about Italy where there´re additional charge service.
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Your bill comes to about €200, for example. 15% of €200 was the service charge, which is €30 for the service charge. In effect, you paid more than just your food, but to the restaurant, to the waiter, etc.. Right?
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Yes.
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I fully understand that a service charge is "different," but my point is that some of that service charge still goes to the waiter in addition to the Trinkgeld. Some of that service charge might pay for the waiter's higher salary.
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Additional service charge go to owner, not waiter because the owner already fixed waiter´s decent wages which mean is everything including. No matter how many customer they have a day. Perhaps 100 customers a day then next day 60 customers and then next day 10 customers.. but wages, the owner pay stay the same.
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Interesting, I can see that every states are different how and what they did with waiter/waitress in their resturant.
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