Ordering Lunch for the Team in German — Office Vocabulary
After this lesson you can take an order, phone it through and hand it out.
Do this first: Present tense
Ordering Lunch for the Team in German — Office Vocabulary
Taking an order, phoning it through and handing it out is a fixed little script. Learn the phrases and the whole errand runs in German.
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The German office lunch is taken seriously and taken away from the desk — eating at your keyboard is regarded as slightly sad rather than hard-working. Many companies run a Kantine with a hot meal, and colleagues go together at a fixed time. And the splitting is real: an app transfer for €6.80 after a shared order is completely normal and not considered petty.
Common questions
+How do I order two of the same thing?
Use -mal: einmal, zweimal, dreimal Currywurst. It is the standard counter form and sounds more natural than zwei Currywurst.
+How do I ask about dietary requirements?
Isst du vegetarisch? or Hast du Allergien? Both are ordinary, unremarkable questions in a German office — asking is expected rather than intrusive.
+Should I pay for everyone?
Usually not. Ask zusammen oder getrennt? and expect people to want to pay their share, often by instant transfer afterwards. Splitting precisely is the norm, not meanness.
+Which verbs here are separable?
abholen (Ich hole das Essen ab) and anrufen (Ich rufe an). Both conjugate normally and send the prefix to the end of the clause.