r/facepalm • u/flyingcatwithhorns 'MURICA • Aug 28 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ i'm speechless

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u/my20cworth Aug 28 '24

They just spent $288 fucking dollars. Ask your boss to pay you.

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u/Lutzelien Aug 28 '24

Tbh I'm from Germany and if I'm paying 288€ for a meal I'm at least paying 300 and leaving the rest for the waiter if they were nice

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u/Davenportmanteau Aug 28 '24

UK here, that's exactly what I would have done. $300 even is more than fair. The problem is, the staff would still see that as an insult, because American culture has conditioned its citizens into believing that restaurants not paying their staff a livable wage is acceptable.

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u/Cum_Smurf Aug 28 '24

Dutch here. Round it off to 285€ and we are good.

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u/i_fuckin_luv_it_mate Aug 28 '24

Waiter: "that'll be $288.52, how would you like to pay?"

Dutchman: "Less. Thank you." * Aside to kids* "NEVER accept their first offer."

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u/delano_mwoan Aug 28 '24

As a fellow Dutchman i can confirm this is correct

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u/Batmanpuncher Aug 28 '24

Not correct if you’re dining in America

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u/rachelm791 Aug 28 '24

I would pay to watch a group of Dutch people argue the toss over paying a tip in the US. Straight to the point no bullshit tolerated vs syrupy sweet insincerity. Carnage.

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u/ParticularTone7983 Aug 28 '24

I was in Amsterdam recently. I was so pleasantly surprised when the waiter refused when I tried to tip him.

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u/Lastigx Aug 28 '24

That's... weird. And uncommon. Tipping isn't standard here but its definitely common. just not the amounts that Americans are used to. A 288 bill would commonly be 300 in the Netherlands.

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u/Brief-Pair6391 Aug 28 '24

Yup, they'll do that... there

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u/Blonde_rake Aug 28 '24

Never happened at the restaurants I go to.

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u/Brief-Pair6391 Aug 28 '24

I'm the Netherlands. Not in the US. Servers are taxed on their sales and not paid a livable wage per hour/on the clock. They literally survive on the Fuqd up tipping system

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u/aaabc_reddit Aug 28 '24

Depends, in the Netherlands rounding to 300 would not be surprising or strange at all...

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u/Ok-Push9899 Aug 28 '24

Haha. Like your style.

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u/Hot-Luck-3228 Aug 28 '24

That is 317 dollars at the moment, tjonge

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u/Icky_Thump1 Aug 28 '24

American here. That is wildddd. And I wish it was acceptable here, but we'd have a better chance of getting murdered before leaving the building.

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u/gregsting Aug 28 '24

Can we have a deal at 280€?

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u/Illustrious_Kale_692 Aug 28 '24

American here. Worked at a restaurant in the downtown of a city that hosted a huge flower growers convention.

Lots of Dutch there for it. Every year would have to serve lots of Dutch

I hope the sea reclaims your cursed swamplands forever and ever

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u/WildSmokingBuick Aug 28 '24

So, Dutchies give a generous 10%+ tip?

Bill is 256 € and you are willing to pay 285 €? Thought you were rather tikkie-stingy?

If you didn't involve different currencies, I'd doubt you'd be able to pay less than the check's amount anywhere.

As a German, I'm, for better or for worse, almost always paying about 10% as a tip - so in this case about $310-$320, paying $289/$290 on a $288,52 bill, I'd almost consider rude..

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u/Cum_Smurf Aug 28 '24

We dont do dollars here and im too high to converse dollar to euro.