Can you ever send a request for less than 3 euros?

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: Are you ever allowed to send a request for less than 3 euros?

There are those questions that you would like to ask but don't always dare to ask. Fortunately, we are here for you. Not only to ask these pressing questions of life, but also to answer them as well as we can. This time: can you ever send a request for less than three euros?

Marcel: ‘Of course you can send a request for less than three euros. At least, if you are under sixteen years old, or if you earn less than a hundred euros a month. For the rest: just act normal.’

Steffi: ‘It varies: if you’ve advanced ten coffees and are now asking for the money back per person, I don’t find that strange. But if it’s just the two of us and I paid for the coffee, then I wouldn’t send a request for that. I’d rather say: you treat next time. You have a nice reason to meet up again. Oh, and one more thing: whining about ‘He had a glass of water while the other had a double latte macchiato with left-stirred oat milk from Madagascar’: NO. Really, no. Just be a little reasonable with each other. Give each other something, treat each other to something. Nitpicking over 30 cents is really very annoying.’

Sharon: ‘Liberal as I am, I say yes. Romantic as I am, I say no. In one-on-one situations: don’t be so stingy. I’d rather have the next round (although I understand that this with the current cappuccino prices is also getting out of hand…).’

Sabina: ‘I would also say: never. Because wow, how stingy are you? But then I started working in a department with about thirty people. If someone has a birthday, a nice lunch is arranged for everyone in the office. So the organizer sends requests for €1.75 per person. Well, that makes sense, right? So in exceptional cases, it can be done, I think.’

Delilah: ‘No, with the exception that ‘open requests’ should be able to be sent, with a nice message that one euro is perfectly fine, in, for example, the parent app group of the class or the sports team. You can’t look into the wallets of people you are more or less randomly in a group with. Furthermore, among friends, what Steffi says…’

Adeline: ‘It completely depends on the frequency. Is it a request for three euros and are you paying for more than three people? Send it. Do you settle something every day for your colleague? Send it. But otherwise, they are forbidden.’

Lauretta: ‘Yes! Well, that does depend on the situation. If someone advances two euros for 15 people, for example for a joint gift, then you can definitely send a request for that from me. After all, I do that too. But if I had to get such an amount back from just three people, I find it a bit excessive and therefore prefer not to do it. If people do it, then I think that’s fine too. Everyone has their thing. But treating your fellow human being once does no harm and is also ten times more fun to do!’