1st time I was in Prague my partner got so stressed because of all the tourists we had to leave the main street just so she could breathe. We literally walked around a corner and there were no tourists. But there was a beer place, downstairs. So we walked down there and sat down at one of the long tables, someone brought 1 beer for each of us without a word spoken by either side; when we (OK, I) emptied that beer mug they brought a new one, when we signalled we were done they brought a bill (for about the amount I'd pay for 1 cup of coffee back home). As Scandinavians we were 100% OK with that level of service :)
@@martinmurin6099 Germany has 9 neighbouring countries - my most favourite is/are ... wait for it: There are 2: The Czech Republic and Denmark - please don't force me to choose between them. ... and there are 2 not so my favourites - but I don't tell. ~_~ (Karlovy Vary = I was there the first time, when I was 6yo ... I just LOVE the Czech since then! ♥)
@@stampcollector74 I'm Czech but... half of my family is/was from Slovakia (and Czechoslovakia too :-D :D ) and I still love Germany much more then them :D
@@martinmurin6099 I live in a small town in Germany with slavic roots (founded 1066 A.D. by slavic tribes); way back the last millenium. There is more connecting us, than dividing. =D
The water thing depends on the country and city. Most places in Sweden won't charge a dime for water (and we have pretty good tap water for the most part). It happens more often in fancy or big city restaurants, but not always. *Edit:* Also, I don't consider the stuff Starbucks sell to be coffee. It's hot/cold milkshakes with a dash of coffee flavoring. Whether it's soy or almond milkshakes or whatever, it's still milkshakes. And the "black" coffee of the US is basically like making love in a canoe - f%%%ing close to water. ;-D
Swedish coffee is the best coffee in the world ! Freshly grinded, freshly brewed, strong coffee. Medium roasted or medium dark coffee. Absolutely fresh coffee in the jug. Max 20 min. Not "tea with coffee flavor". Real strong coffee !!
Honestly Starbucks in the US is actually surprisingly better than in Sweden. Actually the second best coffee I had in the US although that doesn't say much. I still remember the barista in Sweden asking me if I wanted coffee in my mocha latte. Who in their right mind would buy coffee without any coffee in it?! But Swedish coffee is obviously superior to US coffee.
Yes, but in all honesty everyone's doing it, Europeans and Americans alike, there's some Americans out there doing such comparison vid after single few days long visit to UK. At least most Europeans( like this guy) did visit more than one European country in addition to US before attempting this kind of vid.
It's for the views and the youtube algorythm. "Czechia" isn't nearly as clickable in a comparative video as "Europe". Lots of professional youtubers have to use these kinds of tricks if they want to make a living. The honest ones (like this guy) make it clear early in the video what the limitations discussed in the video is about. He wouldn't have this problem if he was comparing US vs France, or the UK, or Germany, but sadly Czechia just isn't as popular so he has to lure people in with a broader concept and trick the algorythm into being interested in his video.
Hello from Czechia. There is not big tipping culture because our waiters are paid as normal workers and don´t depend on the tips or not so much. I prefer this style because I don´t want to be asked every ten minutes if I want anything more. If I need something I just ask or holding up your head and catching the sight of the waiter will do also - and he comes and ask you. And yes, here you can sit hours talking and eating and drinking and playing games or reading. We are used to spend an evening in a pub or a restaurant with friends. Very common here.
That's not actually precisy, many Czech waiters work for very small salary and live mainly from tips, in the past, it was standard, today it's changing, but still, most of restaurant owners (no offense) are thieves and cheaters so they still do that, same as most of small Czech companies, not only restaurants, they give you small salary officialy and another money illegaly "on hand" so tiping is really important even here in Czechia, but compared to USA, they don't expect tips everywhere, you mostly only round it up to make it easier and not forcing them looking for coins.
@@Pidalin I mean yeah you probably won´t be rich, though even, if you work for an extremly stingy restaurant, you will still get paid at the very least a legal minimal wage. And unlike in USA, the minimal wage in Czechia is the same across the board, it is not lower for "tipped" occupations.
@@Pidalin My best friend owns a hotel with a restaurant near Lipno and I was surprised when he told me that how much he pays the waiters. They get an average Czech salary and tips are divided between waiters and kitchen staff. According to him, that's standard in Prague and most fancy restaurants.
It is not that here in CZ we are so poor that we have only one choice of a beer. The truth is that to start a pub, you have to have a license for beer selling and you have to pick a contract with one of the local breweries and only sell their beer. From time to time, bartenders can have two to four options, but that is rare. Mostly, they only have one or two options of beer.
You don't have to, but it's much easier if you do. Because if you make a deal with one brewery, they'll provide branded stationery, like glasses, tablecloths, coasters, sometimes even tables, chairs and parasols. That could be completely free or for a symbolic charge, you just have to negotiate the minimum amount of beer you'll be required to buy per month.
You can mostly choose from like 2-3 beers here on tap, but it's tru that many pubs have only 1 beer and other beers are only in bottles. Most of Czechs select pub by beer they have, when you want pilsner beer, you go to pub with sign pilsner urquel in front of pub or other beer you want. We drink big coffees too in Europe, but not in restaurants or coffee places, you drink it at home or in work, when you go to restaurant or café, most of Czechs will order something like lungo, real italian espresso is too small and weird even for us. BTW, what I totaly hate about coffee sizes is that they very often say only S, M, L or something, so you have no idea how big it actually is, they should show it in mL in Europe, what we normaly drink at home from our standard mugs is like 200 mL, but that would be really big in caffé, you mostly expect something like 80-100 mL when you order lungo or americano, what the hell si S M L? I want to know exact volume of that cup. I don't actually like real espresso, it's too strong and small, I prefer drink coffee for longer time and I mostly do something while drinking it, so it's more like american style, in southern europe, they just drink it like shot of vodka and go, that's not for me. 🙂
In Denmark, the bars will usually have a selection of different beers, 5-6-7 different ones. We usually don´t tip, but if you are at a finer restaurant or you really liked the meal and service, you can tip like 10%. But it´s not expected.
@@karinjohansson7262 well some bars have more.. some have way more.. but In my experience, if you go to a local "down on the corner" pub the selection will usually be the 5-7 beers..
You don't have beer in the US! It's, nicely said, limonade with alcohol. I know, I know. You have more and more root beer and small breweries who take making beer serious. But overall, Budweiser and Corona & Co. is not 🍺. Prost! See you in Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium and other 🍺 countries!
In ireland tap water is free in most places, we rarely tip here because unlike the US waiters in restaurants are paid well and don't have to rely on tips. I don't go to Starbucks here because they don't pay tax in ireland.
They don't pay taxes in Ireland? That's funny because Ireland is tax heaven and many companies tax there instead of countries where they actually have bussines.
In Britain you get coffee in either a mug or cup and saucer with a spoon as seen in the video, I’m a tea drinker and I won’t drink it in a cafe, restaurant etc as despite having tea bags from a well known brand for whatever reason it doesn’t taste as nice as the tea bags i have at home.
Actually there is a good reason why tap water costs about 2€ in europe. For the price calculations you have to consider: 1.) yes, tap water is "free" for the restaurant, but: 2.) Waiters get paid a fair amount of money per month, regardless of what they actually do. (meaning: no matter how many miles they walk, how many customers they serve.) 3.) For that reason, a glass of water is the same work for the waiter as a glass of beer. The actual price of the resource water might be minimal, but added the costs of the waiter serving you its almost the same. 4.) also: the cost of you sitting there sipping the water, is the same costs in (rent, heating, etc.) for the restaurant as if you would actually drink something more "profitable" 5.) and last but not least: you sitting there sipping the free water blocks your table for other paying customers. so i think its fair that water is (mostly) not free in europe
In my country is actually illegal to serve tap water, I know in some other European countries it's not, it's not the same everywhere and the price is not the same too.
Yes, there is something about the cost of the service of delivering water. I know of some places, here in Denmark, where there is a price for water alone, but if you order the water as an add-on to something else, then the water is free.
Well if you sit to only get tap water, unless you are feeling unwell, you are being a unreasonable, but if you are having a meal, or other stuff I don't see the problem, you should not deny water to one who needs, or to one having a meal, the same way you won't be charged by sugar on a coffee, but hey maybe it's because I come from Portugal which can be a hot country, and water sometimes is a must to survive, even kids sometimes go to cafes to ask for water if they are playing on the street.
Swedish waitors is somewhere between what you and he says, not too much and not too little when they speak with you. And you have to ask for the bill, but not at lunch because in some restaurants you pay first. But only in IKEA you pay extra for things like bread, butter, cheese and so on. Coffee we drink in mugs or big cups. And second cup is almost always included.
There is no tips in Spain unless you explain to the waiter/waitress that it is a tip. If you don't they will give your money back automatically. As it is very dificult to me to socialize I never tip. And here it is mandatory to serve tap water if you ask for it for free, due the need of reducing plastic use.
Same prices as in Spain. You can have a cup/glass size for 1€ (caña), and a jar for 2€ or 2,50€, most usually blond beer. Some beer types are sold in bottles, like special or black beers. Beers in tin cans can be very cheap in the supermarket, some non-brand beers can be around 0,30€ a can. So, water is more expensive than beer.
True dat. My only problem is that in my area they have mosly Cruzcampo on tap and you wouldn't wish that onto your worst enemy. The prices are outstanding, but I'd rather drink out of my Roca
I was stunned when I ordered a turky sandwich at a roadside diner in the US. The thing was deep fried, covered in powdered sugar and jello dipping on the side😵
Well I don't buy ketchup in years because of those packets, they always give alot, (now they are reducing to one or two per client) and I always bring them home with me and put in the fridge.
This is not Europe vs USA, this is Chechia vs USA, Europe is not a country, it's a continent with different countries, all with different cultures and languages and ways of doing things.
you sound like typical Italian, Europe is not that different as you think, ofcourse there are differences, but it's not that different as USA compared to european countries
I find it confusing with all the tippning and taxes i the U.S, it would actually be a worry for me, if I ever go there. If you want more money, just add i to the price. Simple.
Tipping is so weird to me, I've never encountered it in my entire 28 years of life (I'm Swedish) I really don't think it happens here at all, it's not something you even think about. I haven't seen a restaurant bill in Forever but I'm pretty sure there is no tip section. The only place I imagine it happens is at bars (a lot bcs friendly drunk people and people who get drunk at bars do have money bcs that's Expensive here)
Restaurant owners (and other smaller local companies) are mostly thieves and cheaters (same like taxi drivers or owners of taxi companies) so they give only small salary to waiter and they need tips, or they give you small salary official and another illegal money "on hand" so you will have low pension because of that, that's why they need tips. Janek in that video is saying that it's not the thing here, but it is, he is obviously from different social bubble and better class than ordinary average Czech who work like that, so he doesn't know. His father was some diplomat in USA or something, so he is what we call upper 10% of people, so he doesn't really know reality of Czech work system, it's more like in USA than he thinks. Most of that illegal cash is from German customers, they are trying to look like modern progressive people from outside, but inside, they are same thieves and cheaters as our bussinesmen and if they can, they pay illegal cash for product instead of taxing it properly, and our companies do bussines mainly with Germany, so there is plenty of untaxed cash from Germany in every Czech company.
Hahaha dude should try a bottle/canned beer in a Norwegian airport... Those are like 20$ as I remember. Edit: He touched on it, but didn't at ALL stress enough the FREAKING GAP in the toilet stall doors.. WHAT THE ACTUAL F?!?! IT'S SOOO WEIRD!! WHY IS THERE A GAP?! WHY CAN I SEE PEOPLE LOOKING AT ME?!
Czechs are still harmless...! come to my hometown düsseldorf or to cologne.... go to a bar and be served by a "KÖBES".....;))) These are the "traditional" rudest "waiters" !!!!!! for example in my hometown if you go to the pub in the morning and ask for a "breakfast" ...." there is no coffee only beer or apple juice" and water is for cleaning, if you don't like that go somewhere else!!! !!! and when I say "breakfast" I mean a rye roll with "stinky cheese and onions" or with "Flönz fähdich / Blotwohsch " and beer, that means blood sausage without skin or smoked
Sorry but I have a different mentality, if a bill comes of around 200$ sorry but that is already enough money for the house, I won't leave anymore, it's already too expensive for my pocket...but hey I come from a low income country so maybe that's why. If it's a dinner group we may split the bill, like if it is 18$ each we round it up to 20$ each, and leave the change to the waiter if we had good service. For me asking for tip is an insult to a client, because you don't know if the person having a meal has enough for it or is willing to spend some dollars he may need on tipping, and not only that, but it proves you only served him well because he can give you money, and if that doesn't happen, he doesn't deserved to be treated equally as other costumers. Every costumer should be treated equally and respectfully, for the service he asks, independently if he wishes to compensate the one serving him for a monetary amount or not. That is a costumers right.
@Piotr XYZ that's true, they're muddy and disgusting. But they are beautiful in the fact that they tell us about a time way before our lives, and stand as a warning to future generations
That's because you have extremely taxed alcohol in Norway, politics here must be very careful about that because beer is our culture and if they increas tax on beer, people who do another defenestration.
Here in Czechia, it can be like 1.5-2x more than normal price at sport events or concerts. When you have beer normaly for 2 eur, it can be like 3 or 4 eur at concert, but that's still pretty expensive for us, we were used to prices like 1.5 eur for big beer for a years, it's changing fast in last 5 years.
Once you know what goes in a hot dog, who could eat one? I can't. They can KEEP that absurdly expensive disgusting dog! BLEH. Mind you, in the UK they serve "pie"s at the games. But they're still better! And naturally, you can buy a tea. The beer would be about 4 pounds, and the tea is half that.
More like central europe vs USA, it will be very similar in Czechia, Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary and many other countries. Thing with bill hapened to me even in Croatia, so there are differences in Europe, also paying in restaurant is different even in our region, it's the same in Czechia, Austria and Slovakia, but more western way in Poland, I am not sure about Germany. In Poland, they pay to those weird books (I saw it even in Latvia for some reason), I still don't really understand how it works, here in Czechia, they have this system only in very fancy restaurants. In Czechia, Slovakia or Austria, you mostly pay directly to waiter so it's super simple and easy. When I was in Portugal, it happend few times to me that I gave him big banknoet and he just walked away for change so I was waiting even few minutes, that was really confusing, I think it's even illegal here in Czechia, they can't just walk away with your bill or bank card. But on other hand, in Portugal, they completely understood our Czech tiping system, when I was supposed to pay like 9 eur, I gave him 10 eur banknote and I said "that's ok" and they understood it everywhere, which was really refreshing becuase they don't understand this neither in close countries like Poland. So, yes, there are differences, but you still know you are in Europe.
The Czech republic does not represent Europe. I wish half a liter beer of good quality beer was as cheap where i live! in the Netherlands . I'm jealous ! 😅. This whole 'Europe vs US ' is comparing apples and pears. There are far more cultural differences between, for example Stockholm and Rome , then say New York and London . Europe is a collection of very different cultures , people and economies on a relative small continent.
It's not that different, European culters are getting closer in last decades. You are maybe right that London vs New York, but generally, there is definitely thing like USA vs Europe. Look at other videos, there are clearly American and clearly European things like windows or handles on doors, have you ever seen round handle on door like in USA? Probably not in Europe.
@@Pidalin You know what brings European cultures together ? We all wear U.S jeans and sneakers, we watch and listen to U.S movies and music...Meawhile kids who never been to most other European countries are chatting away on a U.S online platform about how different we are from Americans because of round doorhandles (?) And we all do it in English .The irony.
@@spiritualanarchist8162 Yes, it's actually pretty funny, but I visited like 10 countries in Europe and I've never seen anything which would be different that much that I could say I don't feel like on my continent anymore. But it's true that most of us can judge USA only from movies and games.
@@Pidalin But we also took over a lot of American culture. And that also makes Europeans look more similar. It sounds like a contradiction, but like i said, we both use English on a American platform to discus Europe. Now i lived in the U.S, for a year And yes it's different. Just not as different as i expected.
Y'all named your NBA games world series o league or games or smth.. but Only American teams are playing..why even include the word world..I guess just so americans think they are number 1 ,the only who win the world series and no other country 😅😂
I am from Spain. Zero in common with the supposed European way. He talks about a little tiny country and endorses it like the whole continent. Here tap water is free, but most people want spring water, and on most menus, bread and water are free. We don't like the pushy fake smile waitress are annoying and we prefer to have friendly conversations during and after meal even after we finished. He is right the restaurants wants us to remain and are no so eager to get other clients as we will still consuming more drinks and we are not a tap culture. Here more than a euro of the tap is weird, and I will never tap. It is not my business to pay the waitress. That is the restaurant employee's business. There are Labour laws for fair salaries. Not client business paying Waitress.
1st time I was in Prague my partner got so stressed because of all the tourists we had to leave the main street just so she could breathe. We literally walked around a corner and there were no tourists. But there was a beer place, downstairs. So we walked down there and sat down at one of the long tables, someone brought 1 beer for each of us without a word spoken by either side; when we (OK, I) emptied that beer mug they brought a new one, when we signalled we were done they brought a bill (for about the amount I'd pay for 1 cup of coffee back home). As Scandinavians we were 100% OK with that level of service :)
As a German I LOVE ♥ the Czech ... they drink more beer than we do (on average) - don't know how it is possible. ; )
Bigger mouths
i'm Czech and i love Germany :-) It is the way !!! :-)
@@martinmurin6099 Germany has 9 neighbouring countries - my most favourite is/are ... wait for it: There are 2: The Czech Republic and Denmark - please don't force me to choose between them. ... and there are 2 not so my favourites - but I don't tell. ~_~ (Karlovy Vary = I was there the first time, when I was 6yo ... I just LOVE the Czech since then! ♥)
@@stampcollector74 I'm Czech but... half of my family is/was from Slovakia (and Czechoslovakia too :-D :D ) and I still love Germany much more then them :D
@@martinmurin6099 I live in a small town in Germany with slavic roots (founded 1066 A.D. by slavic tribes); way back the last millenium. There is more connecting us, than dividing. =D
The water thing depends on the country and city. Most places in Sweden won't charge a dime for water (and we have pretty good tap water for the most part). It happens more often in fancy or big city restaurants, but not always.
*Edit:* Also, I don't consider the stuff Starbucks sell to be coffee. It's hot/cold milkshakes with a dash of coffee flavoring. Whether it's soy or almond milkshakes or whatever, it's still milkshakes. And the "black" coffee of the US is basically like making love in a canoe - f%%%ing close to water. ;-D
Swedish coffee is the best coffee in the world !
Freshly grinded, freshly brewed, strong coffee. Medium roasted or medium dark coffee.
Absolutely fresh coffee in the jug. Max 20 min.
Not "tea with coffee flavor". Real strong coffee !!
Honestly Starbucks in the US is actually surprisingly better than in Sweden. Actually the second best coffee I had in the US although that doesn't say much.
I still remember the barista in Sweden asking me if I wanted coffee in my mocha latte. Who in their right mind would buy coffee without any coffee in it?!
But Swedish coffee is obviously superior to US coffee.
The title is missleading. He compares the US to Czechia not to several countries from Europe.
Yes, but in all honesty everyone's doing it, Europeans and Americans alike, there's some Americans out there doing such comparison vid after single few days long visit to UK. At least most Europeans( like this guy) did visit more than one European country in addition to US before attempting this kind of vid.
@@rehurekj what an ignorant comment. Be educated.
@@karinjohansson7262 what a rude and vague comment. Say what you disagree with and learn some manners.
Totally agree! It seems like he knows very little about the culture of the rest of the european countries.
It's for the views and the youtube algorythm. "Czechia" isn't nearly as clickable in a comparative video as "Europe". Lots of professional youtubers have to use these kinds of tricks if they want to make a living. The honest ones (like this guy) make it clear early in the video what the limitations discussed in the video is about. He wouldn't have this problem if he was comparing US vs France, or the UK, or Germany, but sadly Czechia just isn't as popular so he has to lure people in with a broader concept and trick the algorythm into being interested in his video.
Hello from Czechia. There is not big tipping culture because our waiters are paid as normal workers and don´t depend on the tips or not so much. I prefer this style because I don´t want to be asked every ten minutes if I want anything more. If I need something I just ask or holding up your head and catching the sight of the waiter will do also - and he comes and ask you. And yes, here you can sit hours talking and eating and drinking and playing games or reading. We are used to spend an evening in a pub or a restaurant with friends. Very common here.
That's not actually precisy, many Czech waiters work for very small salary and live mainly from tips, in the past, it was standard, today it's changing, but still, most of restaurant owners (no offense) are thieves and cheaters so they still do that, same as most of small Czech companies, not only restaurants, they give you small salary officialy and another money illegaly "on hand" so tiping is really important even here in Czechia, but compared to USA, they don't expect tips everywhere, you mostly only round it up to make it easier and not forcing them looking for coins.
@@Pidalin I mean yeah you probably won´t be rich, though even, if you work for an extremly stingy restaurant, you will still get paid at the very least a legal minimal wage. And unlike in USA, the minimal wage in Czechia is the same across the board, it is not lower for "tipped" occupations.
@@Pidalin My best friend owns a hotel with a restaurant near Lipno and I was surprised when he told me that how much he pays the waiters. They get an average Czech salary and tips are divided between waiters and kitchen staff. According to him, that's standard in Prague and most fancy restaurants.
It is not that here in CZ we are so poor that we have only one choice of a beer. The truth is that to start a pub, you have to have a license for beer selling and you have to pick a contract with one of the local breweries and only sell their beer. From time to time, bartenders can have two to four options, but that is rare. Mostly, they only have one or two options of beer.
You don't have to, but it's much easier if you do. Because if you make a deal with one brewery, they'll provide branded stationery, like glasses, tablecloths, coasters, sometimes even tables, chairs and parasols. That could be completely free or for a symbolic charge, you just have to negotiate the minimum amount of beer you'll be required to buy per month.
You can mostly choose from like 2-3 beers here on tap, but it's tru that many pubs have only 1 beer and other beers are only in bottles. Most of Czechs select pub by beer they have, when you want pilsner beer, you go to pub with sign pilsner urquel in front of pub or other beer you want.
We drink big coffees too in Europe, but not in restaurants or coffee places, you drink it at home or in work, when you go to restaurant or café, most of Czechs will order something like lungo, real italian espresso is too small and weird even for us.
BTW, what I totaly hate about coffee sizes is that they very often say only S, M, L or something, so you have no idea how big it actually is, they should show it in mL in Europe, what we normaly drink at home from our standard mugs is like 200 mL, but that would be really big in caffé, you mostly expect something like 80-100 mL when you order lungo or americano, what the hell si S M L? I want to know exact volume of that cup. I don't actually like real espresso, it's too strong and small, I prefer drink coffee for longer time and I mostly do something while drinking it, so it's more like american style, in southern europe, they just drink it like shot of vodka and go, that's not for me. 🙂
honest guide is an amazing channel!
In Denmark, the bars will usually have a selection of different beers, 5-6-7 different ones.
We usually don´t tip, but if you are at a finer restaurant or you really liked the meal and service, you can tip like 10%. But it´s not expected.
Only 5 - 7?
@@karinjohansson7262 well some bars have more.. some have way more.. but In my experience, if you go to a local "down on the corner" pub the selection will usually be the 5-7 beers..
They try to encourage tipping more and more...
@@Donnah1979 don't
I never thought I Will see Janek Rubeš on your Channel.
You don't have beer in the US! It's, nicely said, limonade with alcohol. I know, I know. You have more and more root beer and small breweries who take making beer serious. But overall, Budweiser and Corona & Co. is not 🍺. Prost! See you in Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium and other 🍺 countries!
At least in France water is free in restaurants
13:45 Because in Europe, unlike in America, employers pay employees for work.
many people are still paid for hours, not for actual work, in some cases, it's impossible to count it, so it's better to pay them by hours
In ireland tap water is free in most places, we rarely tip here because unlike the US waiters in restaurants are paid well and don't have to rely on tips. I don't go to Starbucks here because they don't pay tax in ireland.
Yeah, just leave a couple of euros on the table for the server, but its small amount compared to what they leave in America.
@@charlotteinnocent8752 A waitress/waiter earns 15 dollars per hour in Ireland. I am sure its a lot lower in America
@@lazyeyejohn It depends on where you live in America.
They don't pay taxes in Ireland? That's funny because Ireland is tax heaven and many companies tax there instead of countries where they actually have bussines.
In Britain you get coffee in either a mug or cup and saucer with a spoon as seen in the video, I’m a tea drinker and I won’t drink it in a cafe, restaurant etc as despite having tea bags from a well known brand for whatever reason it doesn’t taste as nice as the tea bags i have at home.
Michael McIntyre's sketch on having espresso at the end of the night right before you go home and go to bed...
If they mainly serve coffee, the water for the tea will often have a drop of coffee in it because of how the machine is set up. Spoils the taste.
Actually there is a good reason why tap water costs about 2€ in europe. For the price calculations you have to consider:
1.) yes, tap water is "free" for the restaurant, but:
2.) Waiters get paid a fair amount of money per month, regardless of what they actually do. (meaning: no matter how many miles they walk, how many customers they serve.)
3.) For that reason, a glass of water is the same work for the waiter as a glass of beer. The actual price of the resource water might be minimal, but added the costs of the waiter serving you its almost the same.
4.) also: the cost of you sitting there sipping the water, is the same costs in (rent, heating, etc.) for the restaurant as if you would actually drink something more "profitable"
5.) and last but not least: you sitting there sipping the free water blocks your table for other paying customers.
so i think its fair that water is (mostly) not free in europe
In my country is actually illegal to serve tap water, I know in some other European countries it's not, it's not the same everywhere and the price is not the same too.
Tap water in restaurants are most often free! Stop sharing desinformation.
@@norma8686 illegal? That seems strange.
Yes, there is something about the cost of the service of delivering water.
I know of some places, here in Denmark, where there is a price for water alone, but if you order the water as an add-on to something else, then the water is free.
Well if you sit to only get tap water, unless you are feeling unwell, you are being a unreasonable, but if you are having a meal, or other stuff I don't see the problem, you should not deny water to one who needs, or to one having a meal, the same way you won't be charged by sugar on a coffee, but hey maybe it's because I come from Portugal which can be a hot country, and water sometimes is a must to survive, even kids sometimes go to cafes to ask for water if they are playing on the street.
Great quote from this video at 22.00
"it's okay to be different
it's just different strokes for different folks
different ways of life"
Pleasant surprise, I am a Czech and I just found this video, gonna watch it all
Swedish waitors is somewhere between what you and he says, not too much and not too little when they speak with you. And you have to ask for the bill, but not at lunch because in some restaurants you pay first. But only in IKEA you pay extra for things like bread, butter, cheese and so on. Coffee we drink in mugs or big cups. And second cup is almost always included.
There is no tips in Spain unless you explain to the waiter/waitress that it is a tip. If you don't they will give your money back automatically. As it is very dificult to me to socialize I never tip. And here it is mandatory to serve tap water if you ask for it for free, due the need of reducing plastic use.
Same prices as in Spain. You can have a cup/glass size for 1€ (caña), and a jar for 2€ or 2,50€, most usually blond beer. Some beer types are sold in bottles, like special or black beers. Beers in tin cans can be very cheap in the supermarket, some non-brand beers can be around 0,30€ a can. So, water is more expensive than beer.
True dat. My only problem is that in my area they have mosly Cruzcampo on tap and you wouldn't wish that onto your worst enemy. The prices are outstanding, but I'd rather drink out of my Roca
I was stunned when I ordered a turky sandwich at a roadside diner in the US. The thing was deep fried, covered in powdered sugar and jello dipping on the side😵
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A tip is not required here in Barbados, you can if you want for sure, doubtful that anyone would turn that down
Well I don't buy ketchup in years because of those packets, they always give alot, (now they are reducing to one or two per client) and I always bring them home with me and put in the fridge.
I blieve in the UK restaurants have a legal obligation to offer free tap water, if requested.
Same in France
we have a wendys in my city one of about 5 in whole uk
Starsbuck is NOT coffee.... Is garbage
We call Starbucks coffee dirty water 🤣
The head on the top of the pint is wrong. I would give it back a tell them to fill it up properly. Also this is only for the Czech Republic.
It's filled properly, exactly as it should be.
If my waiter were to come at me all smiling and chatty it would creep the shit out of me.
17:26 Then a little advice : don't try Cuban coffee.
One sip and you would get wired for the day.
America dont have beers......i tryed almost everyone....
This is not Europe vs USA, this is Chechia vs USA, Europe is not a country, it's a continent with different countries, all with different cultures and languages and ways of doing things.
Czechia* :)
you sound like typical Italian, Europe is not that different as you think, ofcourse there are differences, but it's not that different as USA compared to european countries
I find it confusing with all the tippning and taxes i the U.S, it would actually be a worry for me, if I ever go there. If you want more money, just add i to the price. Simple.
I'd never tip while eating in USA.
Americans need to organize their own revolution in defence of workers right instead of begging from customers.
Tipping is so weird to me, I've never encountered it in my entire 28 years of life (I'm Swedish) I really don't think it happens here at all, it's not something you even think about. I haven't seen a restaurant bill in Forever but I'm pretty sure there is no tip section. The only place I imagine it happens is at bars (a lot bcs friendly drunk people and people who get drunk at bars do have money bcs that's Expensive here)
Restaurant owners (and other smaller local companies) are mostly thieves and cheaters (same like taxi drivers or owners of taxi companies) so they give only small salary to waiter and they need tips, or they give you small salary official and another illegal money "on hand" so you will have low pension because of that, that's why they need tips. Janek in that video is saying that it's not the thing here, but it is, he is obviously from different social bubble and better class than ordinary average Czech who work like that, so he doesn't know. His father was some diplomat in USA or something, so he is what we call upper 10% of people, so he doesn't really know reality of Czech work system, it's more like in USA than he thinks.
Most of that illegal cash is from German customers, they are trying to look like modern progressive people from outside, but inside, they are same thieves and cheaters as our bussinesmen and if they can, they pay illegal cash for product instead of taxing it properly, and our companies do bussines mainly with Germany, so there is plenty of untaxed cash from Germany in every Czech company.
Hahaha dude should try a bottle/canned beer in a Norwegian airport... Those are like 20$ as I remember. Edit: He touched on it, but didn't at ALL stress enough the FREAKING GAP in the toilet stall doors.. WHAT THE ACTUAL F?!?! IT'S SOOO WEIRD!! WHY IS THERE A GAP?! WHY CAN I SEE PEOPLE LOOKING AT ME?!
Czechs are still harmless...!
come to my hometown düsseldorf or to cologne....
go to a bar and be served by a "KÖBES".....;)))
These are the "traditional" rudest "waiters" !!!!!!
for example in my hometown if you go to the pub in the morning and ask for a "breakfast" ...." there is no coffee only beer or apple juice" and water is for cleaning, if you don't like that go somewhere else!!! !!!
and when I say "breakfast" I mean a rye roll with "stinky cheese and onions" or with "Flönz fähdich / Blotwohsch " and beer, that means blood sausage without skin or smoked
No, the rudest waiters are in Vienna, which is good for Czech person because it feels like home. 😀
Sorry but I have a different mentality, if a bill comes of around 200$ sorry but that is already enough money for the house, I won't leave anymore, it's already too expensive for my pocket...but hey I come from a low income country so maybe that's why.
If it's a dinner group we may split the bill, like if it is 18$ each we round it up to 20$ each, and leave the change to the waiter if we had good service.
For me asking for tip is an insult to a client, because you don't know if the person having a meal has enough for it or is willing to spend some dollars he may need on tipping, and not only that, but it proves you only served him well because he can give you money, and if that doesn't happen, he doesn't deserved to be treated equally as other costumers.
Every costumer should be treated equally and respectfully, for the service he asks, independently if he wishes to compensate the one serving him for a monetary amount or not. That is a costumers right.
I've never had a beer below 10 - 12 dollars when out drinking. I don't know if you can even get a beer cheaper than that in a bar in Norway....
holy cow
in Poland in my town you can get a beer in a pub for 2 dollars on avarage
@@theRAV4000 poland is so beautiful, especially the concentration camps! Was there in 2013, very inspirational
@@viktorbirkeland6520 calling the concentration camps beautiful isn't really appriopriate
@Piotr XYZ that's true, they're muddy and disgusting. But they are beautiful in the fact that they tell us about a time way before our lives, and stand as a warning to future generations
That's because you have extremely taxed alcohol in Norway, politics here must be very careful about that because beer is our culture and if they increas tax on beer, people who do another defenestration.
$20 for a beer? Over here in Germany fans would be burn the stadium down and the responsible people tarred and bounced and chased from the town.
Here in Czechia, it can be like 1.5-2x more than normal price at sport events or concerts. When you have beer normaly for 2 eur, it can be like 3 or 4 eur at concert, but that's still pretty expensive for us, we were used to prices like 1.5 eur for big beer for a years, it's changing fast in last 5 years.
You can work as a bartender as 18 when the drinking age is 21?
Americans: Europe is a continent with huge cultural differences and traditions depending on what country you go to.
Once you know what goes in a hot dog, who could eat one? I can't. They can KEEP that absurdly expensive disgusting dog! BLEH. Mind you, in the UK they serve "pie"s at the games. But they're still better! And naturally, you can buy a tea. The beer would be about 4 pounds, and the tea is half that.
Did I understood that rhight? You were allowed to sell alcohol as a waitress before you were 21?
It is not Europe vs US it is Cezch Republic vs US
More like central europe vs USA, it will be very similar in Czechia, Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary and many other countries. Thing with bill hapened to me even in Croatia, so there are differences in Europe, also paying in restaurant is different even in our region, it's the same in Czechia, Austria and Slovakia, but more western way in Poland, I am not sure about Germany. In Poland, they pay to those weird books (I saw it even in Latvia for some reason), I still don't really understand how it works, here in Czechia, they have this system only in very fancy restaurants. In Czechia, Slovakia or Austria, you mostly pay directly to waiter so it's super simple and easy. When I was in Portugal, it happend few times to me that I gave him big banknoet and he just walked away for change so I was waiting even few minutes, that was really confusing, I think it's even illegal here in Czechia, they can't just walk away with your bill or bank card. But on other hand, in Portugal, they completely understood our Czech tiping system, when I was supposed to pay like 9 eur, I gave him 10 eur banknote and I said "that's ok" and they understood it everywhere, which was really refreshing becuase they don't understand this neither in close countries like Poland. So, yes, there are differences, but you still know you are in Europe.
Prague beats USA every time.
The Czech republic does not represent Europe. I wish half a liter beer of good quality beer was as cheap where i live! in the Netherlands . I'm jealous ! 😅. This whole 'Europe vs US ' is comparing apples and pears. There are far more cultural differences between, for example Stockholm and Rome , then say New York and London . Europe is a collection of very different cultures , people and economies on a relative small continent.
It's not that different, European culters are getting closer in last decades. You are maybe right that London vs New York, but generally, there is definitely thing like USA vs Europe. Look at other videos, there are clearly American and clearly European things like windows or handles on doors, have you ever seen round handle on door like in USA? Probably not in Europe.
@@Pidalin You know what brings European cultures together ? We all wear U.S jeans and sneakers, we watch and listen to U.S movies and music...Meawhile kids who never been to most other European countries are chatting away on a U.S online platform about how different we are from Americans because of round doorhandles (?) And we all do it in English .The irony.
@@spiritualanarchist8162 Yes, it's actually pretty funny, but I visited like 10 countries in Europe and I've never seen anything which would be different that much that I could say I don't feel like on my continent anymore. But it's true that most of us can judge USA only from movies and games.
@@Pidalin But we also took over a lot of American culture. And that also makes Europeans look more similar. It sounds like a contradiction, but like i said, we both use English on a American platform to discus Europe. Now i lived in the U.S, for a year And yes it's different. Just not as different as i expected.
Y'all named your NBA games world series o league or games or smth.. but Only American teams are playing..why even include the word world..I guess just so americans think they are number 1 ,the only who win the world series and no other country 😅😂
Yep at best they should call it "continental series"since some canadian teams are in.
I heard that they call it that because in the older days it was sponsored by a magazine called The World, so from that The World series.
@@norma8686 oh okay that's interesting, I look this up. thank you
@@Lostouille oh yes you're right I forgot the canadians 😊
Do videos about other countries in Europe instead of misleading ones.
I am from Spain. Zero in common with the supposed European way. He talks about a little tiny country and endorses it like the whole continent.
Here tap water is free, but most people want spring water, and on most menus, bread and water are free.
We don't like the pushy fake smile waitress are annoying and we prefer to have friendly conversations during and after meal even after we finished. He is right the restaurants wants us to remain and are no so eager to get other clients as we will still consuming more drinks and we are not a tap culture. Here more than a euro of the tap is weird, and I will never tap. It is not my business to pay the waitress. That is the restaurant employee's business. There are Labour laws for fair salaries. Not client business paying Waitress.
very misleading video