Found in a restaurant in dresden. The waitress came up to us during our meal and asked us to please leave a google review in exchange for a glass of prosecco.

by Guval25

4 comments
  1. Why wouldn’t it be…?

    At worst it could be a Google ToS violation, but since they’re not saying it has to be a *good* review, even that isn’t an issue afaik

  2. Yes it is legal, the Google reviews for restaurants in German are like yelp or other reviews.

  3. It’s at least against google TOS

    > Kunden bitten, Rezensionen abzugeben: Teilen Sie ihnen mit, dass das schnell und einfach geht. Geschäftsinhaber sollten Kunden keine Anreize als Gegenleistung für Rezensionen anbieten.

    https://support.google.com/business/answer/3474122?hl=de

    All kinds of lawyer webpages also say it’s illegal if the business gives out gift cards for ratings, no idea if it’s the same with champagne.

  4. It’s illegal to pay for a POSITIVE review, not for the review itself.

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