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Re:Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots by kristofferR on Monday April 13, 2015 @06:40AM (#9366866)
I've never heard about anyone tipping taxi drivers before, seems like a weird thing to do. Is that actually common in the US?
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Re:Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots by ghshephard on Monday April 13, 2015 @08:15AM (#9367162)
I could never convince my US colleagues that you don't have to tip taxi drivers in Singapore 20%. They were actually incapable of not tipping, so ingrained was the habit in the US.
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Re:Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots by idiot900 on Monday April 13, 2015 @06:51AM (#9366899)
Very common. In NYC for example there is a social institution that taxi drivers are tipped.
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Re:Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots by DominikR on Monday April 13, 2015 @06:57AM (#9366910)
In Austria (Europe) this is common too.
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Re:Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots by tormeh on Monday April 13, 2015 @07:33AM (#9367018)
But not in Germany, though. In norway, tipping is something you only do at restaurants (not in taxis or other places).
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Re:Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots by syntheticnature on Monday April 13, 2015 @11:47AM (#9368280)
Interesting. I had a taxi driver in Hamburg bitch at me for the whole ride that Americans don't tip and why don't they tip?

So, that was the one taxi ride in Germany I took and didn't tip. (It was not the first taxi ride in Germany.)

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Re:Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots by tormeh on Monday April 13, 2015 @12:17PM (#9368498)
Maybe there's an east-west divide? My experience is with Berlin.
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Re:Japan to open first hotel entirely operated by robots by syntheticnature on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @08:25AM (#9373625)
Looking at a few sites this morning, it sounds like it's typical to round up to the next Euro in Germany, and that tipping more than 10% might be seen as offensive (unless of course you are hoping to get some extra from an American).
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