On the coffee topic from a european (austrian) perspective: no, we don't put creamer in the coffe. We drink it black, with milk, or with whipped cream on top, but no artificial flavours added. (except if you buy your coffee in some american shop like starbucks, but that doesn't count)
Austria definitely has some of the best coffees in Europe, and is a bit of an unsung hero in this way. Unfortunately nextdoor in Germany it seems impossible to get coffee without the awful kaffessahnne, even when I've ordered black coffee and milk separately they still bring black coffee and sachets of the kaffessahnne 😢. Perhaps my German isn't very good, but my French apparently isn't any better because whatever I order in France, they almost always bring very milky coffee because they can't imagine British people drinking any other type of coffee 😂. Never any problems in Austria or Italy though.
sorry to say but american coffee is crap that is why they have to put so many things into it, you hardly can force down that dishwater otherwise. european coffee is on a whole other level.
I have to disagree. When I get a great experience I gladly drop a nice tip for the waiter. Just few days back I have been to a small café. Just kill some time there when waiting for my friend. There was just one waiter and she didnt stopped but she was always smiling, brought my order fast. Just perfect. Of course I gave her huge tip. She deserved it.
@@CaptainGarisen-bl3vp I think problem isn't tipping. In Europe it's normal to tip but no one is asking you for tip or flipping tablet where you have to select %. It just shows that waiter went far and beyond. If you are just doing your job no tip is fine bcs you get paid fair wage that you can live off of. Still I would consider myself against tipping especially in fastfood or take out.
I think what he meant to say was that you tip in Europe too when you get some good service, but the waiter isnt dependant on that tip, in USA waiters are very underpaid and they have to depend on tips to make it through@@CaptainGarisen-bl3vp
He is not comparing Europe and USA but Czech Republic and USA. Because in many other countries in Europe some aspects are different than in Czech Republic.
But not that different, as a Czech, I haven't seen anything that weird in other European countries I visited. I would say that there is more like North/South cultural difference and in beer culture, there is difference in central europe (countries of former Austria-Hungary and Germany). More north you go, bigger coffee you will get. Czech Republic is somewhere in middle.
@@GdzieJestNemo i can say for sure its not like that in portugal united kingdom and spain 3 countrys that i know well , eastern europe might be diferent but i dont know that much to talk about it
You can say that you dont want this on your food. But each restaurant has its own recipes, but you can then tell to them that you dont want let's say salat. But for steaks every one will ask you how you want it.
I don't really agree with him about the service.. it might be like that in Czech Republic, but in most of europe it's not like they're rude or grumpy.. It's just not in our culture to be overly happy and bubbly.. and it's also to do with the salary.. in Europe you get paid a good salary besides the tips, so they don't have to fabricate their happiness if that makes sense.. And we find it kinda weird in europe and just want to be left alone with our food. And with the packaging its not about the price or whatever the customer want, it's about the environment.. Not that I care that much about it, I would much rather have them for free😅But that's the reason, to be more thoughtful about the environment.
Exactly, the service isn't that bad in the Czech Republic either. I mean there are pubs, usually those without waitresses, where you need to order at the bar, and sometimes there is a grumpy older man, which may be a bit uncomfortable, but still, if you felt uncomfortable with the service in a restaurant these days, you wouldn't consider that the norm. I mean you wouldn't go to that place ever again after such an experience. Recently, a place not far from my house changed owners because the old owner was a douchebag and no one was really going there. Nowadays, the very same business in the very same location does wonderfully just because of a small change in the approach to the customers. So no, it really isn't like that in the Czech Republic, and the very few exceptions that you could encounter won't really last all that long in the business. The attitude is definetly different from the US tho if what described in the video is considered the standart there.
Well in Paris they can be rude or grumpy 😂 Particularly if they think you’re English! I recommend Australians to have a flag on your bag or something. But as with everything, you can’t some up Europe by one country let alone capital city!
If I wanna drink coffee, I wanna drink coffee. A cup of coffee. Nothing else. No vanilla flavoured squishy squashy juicy splashy shitty Starbucks anything - just coffee. And I wanna taste the flavour of coffee. Kisses from Germany (where we have Starbucks and Co, as well, unfortunately) 😍
When i went to the US i was put off by the overly friendly staff everywhere. I don't want to make friends and you don't know me well enough to actually care, so let's keep this professional. Just a cultural thing. Sometimes it can be nice but more often than not it's just fake.
About the food - Usually a chef in the kitchen choses the menu and since he is profesional at cooking there should be no need to give him advice how to prepare the food you want. If you are alergic to something then order something else. (steak is exception) I also obey the golden rule of restaurants - do not piss off people that handle or prepare your food :D
Happiness is not pretending to be, it is a real feeling. In the US, everyone seems happy because they have to while working, but sometimes not being real at all. In Europe, I think people show more what they really feel. Don't see how that's bad. Also, Europe is very different, comparing a Chezc with a Spanish is completely different
10:25 there is differences in every European country tho, Czech doesn't make up all of Europe in general, y'all should check out more videos on USA vs Europe
Czechia is not eastern europe and their restaurant culture is pretty similar to what you will see in Germany or Austria and that already is pretty big part of Europe. There is mainly difference between north and south and actual east like Ukraine or Russia is very different.
@@erik9775 Nobody wants to be called an Eastern Europe just because of 40 years of communism and 20 years of soviet occupation, this is a sensitive topic for us. Communist regime is no more for more than 34 years and they still call us eastern Europe, but we are back. It's kind of weird to say that Luxembourg emperors were ruling from Eastern Europe, isn't it? 😀
With food if you don’t want something you just say or ask for it in a particular way. If you don’t ask they will just give to you how it comes. You would always be asked how a steak is cooked unless it’s a minute steak or something
Every european country its different, in my country the water is free and i think most of the countries do that,things are cheap where i live and we dont pay for everything like bathrooms etc.
It is some strange law , but not becose the water would be bad quality but becose some deals with soda companies like breweries usually donate something to pubs and have a deal that they will serve only their beer - that's why most pubs serve only 1 brand
Ah well, Germany is pretty close to the Czech Republic (changed the name to "Czechia" recently) in habits and cultural norms, probably because we where connected via the Holy Roman Empire for ~ a thousand years, and no, we usually don't have flavoured creamer, we have (depending on type of coffee, quality of the café and some other variables) at the least condensed milk, usually given to you on your saucer so you can choose to use it or leave it, foamed milk or just plain milk or cream. Though I have to disagree with the assertion that service is lacklustre in Czechia - I felt service in Prague was *supreme,* in many ways similar to Vienna (to which Prague is fairly similar anyway, being the "second city" of the whole of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 to the end of the Austro-Hungarian one in 1918) and that was in the mid first decade of the 21st century. But then I'm a German and Germany is well known for *abysmal* service...🤣 Best regards Raoul G. Kunz
abysmal service :) You order something, u get it! Smile is not on the menu nor the more time for you! In some comments I told how we have rich and intertwined history with Germany and they start screaming at me that "It was Austria u stupid faggot, learn your history" .. And you just say 1000y years with Germany like it was nothing :D Other slavic countries say that we are too Germanized. I mean WAS?!?!
The American understanding of a good service is so irritating to me. I want a professional waiter, not a best friend. Why would waiters introduce themselves, or ask me how my day was?
Here in Ireland most resuraunts will have a set menu but usually the chef will allow you to switch some of the items on your dish. Alot of the stuff he's talking about just refers to the Chec republic. Hospitality in Ireland is A+
the water thing is very country specific. here in France you get free water aswell. bottled water is still available but you pay for it. though the less scrupulous restaurants you have to be specific with getting tap water because they by defaqult take bottled water when you don't specify
As European I struggle to understand US mentality around tipping - do not you see that thanks to your "gratitude" is the the base salary for waitress BY LAW the lowest in US? In other words, you push poor worker to the economic edge to feel "good". Very disrespectful, even vile in my eyes. The only one secretly laughing is the business owner.
German guy here: No Coffee mate for me, thanks - that stuff gives me the creeps. I tried artificial hazelnut and artificial vanilla aroma and I have the feeling that something in me died that day. To be honest, it couldn't make the dunkin' Doughnuts coffee any worse, as it already is sewage in plastic cups...
7:40 When we order a steak in the Czech Republic, they also ask us how we want it. But yes, apart from steaks, they don't ask about it anywhere. For myself, I like very rare Rib-eye. ;)
Well yeah you pay for sauces but only extra sauces you get between 1 and 3 sauce package for free depending on what you order (atleast in McDonald's France)
About the steak. they will ask the stake temp. But for the menu. You know what restaurant you go to for their menu. If you don't like it. You go to a different one that prepares it how you like it.
A lot of things he doesn't like about the restaurants are things that only happen in fast food or very casual restaurants. Any slightly fine dining or sit down restaurants use coasters, or ramekins, and things of that nature.
07:55 steak is one of the few things you'll always be asked how you want it done in europe as well. on the off chance they don't ask and you don't say anything they'll assume you want it medium
To answer your question if you want your food a certain way, you go to another restaurant, which i doubt you'll get. How it's written on the menu, so you shall recieve it period. If you like it only in your own way, you eat at home.
In Europe you will be asked how you want your steak obviously, and you can change a side dish if you like somehting different. What Europe does not do is to force you through a list of options longet than a tax report.
In summary - What do you think waitress want - clear higher paycheck for her work, or uncertainty of the mood and season coming from tipping? If the owner do not think employee is not fulfilling restaurant standard, well, then he can hire someone else. Easy. Tipping is harmful for staff and should be pushed away. Are you satisfied? Give a smile, not a banknote. Employer is here for salary and I am pretty sure employer best interest is in finding staff members that profit and level up his/her business. Just my humble 5cent
You should never have burgers anything other than well done because it's minced meat and the bacteria on the outside of the piece of meat prior to mincing is all mixed up. Steaks are fine to cook rare as the bacteria on the outside is all killed off and so safe to eat. Only in America have I come across options on how to cook a burger. It's just wrong and leads to so many illnesses.
FRANCE is much différent ! We have thé more expensive stuff depending about where and when you drink or eat Exemple : in Cannes during the festival the clother you are from the sea or event the more its expensive...70€ for an expresso 😮
about the water not being free. In france at least it is require by law that restauration place must give free water to consummer if they ask. the law is pretty recent but honestly even when i was a child 20 years ago, you could always request free tap water. ( now its a european law ) sometime you dont' even need to be a consummer. more than a few time during heat wave period, i would enter a random restaurant or bar and ask for a glass of water and they would give it without asking anything.
cheese and eggs are ok to eat as breakfast, european here we do that too but not the cheese you have there, that is the isssue, I live in Canada of 15 years but i never buy the plastic cheese how i call it or the frozen food I always cook my own food. That is the difference and unfortunately many products here as well as US are not very helathy i try to find helatier products all the time,its hard. Coffee size was a shock for me too😂, but thats not coffee its just water or milk,and yes I like my coffee with milk .The service in Romania where I'm from it's getting better. In Canada they are all nice for the tips. And a difference between people in Canada and Europe ,in Canada they are nice but many are 2 faced they smile but they stab you in the back, at least in Europe people are direct and sincere .
Just imagine you go eat at a friend place his wife made you dinner , you are going to change everything she puts in your plate ? its same here , remember you are a gest in restaurant not a king , the cook make the best meal he can you are supose to at least try it before wanting to change it like a gest you dont insult the cook or the housewife .
@@Marina_-_- which one exactly? tipping is not that popular across whole Europe, tax is always included nearly across the globe, bathroom stalls are closed across the continent, the coffee he showed is the default you will get across Europe, variety of beer same - usually it's one brewery + few general country wide brands, attitude to garbage - mostly similar across at least EU (some more than others), restaurants don't have "make your own dish" attitude, getting tap water at restaurant - that one differs, but it's unlikely you will get it offered for free and a he said many places outright refuse suggesting bottled instead (and it's pretty much always 0,33l to 0,5l max)
the tipping reason is the same like the service reason and the bill landing soo n on the table reason. in us a waitress dont earn much money. even more the payment are the tips. So what do you do. be very very friendly and try to get as much customers as possible. because thats what you are living from.. in Europe a waitress gets paid much better. they dont need to live from it. its a very nice extra and good service deserve a nice tip. Well i thinks that are the reasons for the difference. As someone from the EU often we dont know aboutr the tipps and the waintress situation in us. So sorry for beeing rude we dont know about your bad payments. we dont do that here ^^
7:52 we go to restaurants for the way the restaurant cooks the food/dish. If you’re going to go and change stuff why bother going there? If you’re removing allergens then I can understand that
Apart from steak, nobody questions how they want their food. That’s the chefs job is to sell good food. It’s arrogant to think you know better than a trained chef. Maybe people may question if they’re vegetarian or vegan. Ingredients are much higher quality outside of the US too. You don’t need 100 herbs and spices or sugary chemical laden condiments. Don’t rush dining customers. That’s rude. Bringing the bill before your finished is rude as f. It’s the bill not the cheque too. You may pay the bill with a cheque. This is pretty much every country besides the US. Australian opinion who’s travelled. By travel I mean beyond Australian borders.
@@theoteddy9665 just saying as the check guy said in the video Sherlock !!! And im old and used to check republic not chekia , thank you for your thougtfull coment my fryend
@@sergiopita5117 There is no check republic or chekia. The official names in English are capitalised and are Czech Republic or Czechia. It has nothing to do with your age, this way of spelling these names has been the only correct way for the entire existence of the country since 1993.
I think Janek said the wrong thing about the grumpy behavior of service workers. I wouldn't say it's grumpy, but more like neutral and in "better" businesses, it's more like professional i would say. I think what he was trying to say was that to an American, this behavior might seem grumpy. In the opposite, to us the behavior of your service staff may seem even fake, at least to me, the behavior of your service staff is the way it is mainly because they need to be tipped.
OH, consumer choice . . . It's So-O-O-O confusing . . . A competitive marketplace with restaurants and retailers adding value to products and trying to stay ahead of the competition by offering options, options, options galore, sometimes even FREE items . . . Why, it's enough to make your little ol' euro-head spin, when you're used to only two, maybe three, tops, choices of toothpaste OR ways to order your hamburger/steak . . . DAMN YOU, AME-E--E-E-E-RICA!
If u eat stake they will always ask you how do u want it done. U can say how u want your food done in anyplace more or less if they dont ask you, you can just tell them.
I don't know the term "healthy steak", in general meat from slaughtered animals is considered by all experts to be unhealthy😁 Dude, weird logic, you don't mind leaving a $10 tip but you'd mind paying an extra two dollars for 4 bags of ketchup.
1. 7:23 yeah but us in Europe if we don’t want something that comes with the food just don’t get the food and if you really don’t want you’ll have to pick some thing else like you shouldn’t have 1 million options to choose how the food is going to be like that’s weird. 2. 8:00 and with steak they ask you how you want it to be done did you that everywhere i’m not sure about every country in Europe does it but my country does and I know a lot of other countries that do. 3. 10:28 this also happened in every country in Europe since the country I live in doesn’t do this some do, some just don’t care their not grumpy, but they’re like in between like they don’t care. 4. 17:25 I completely disagree with what he said you don’t know how much damage it does to the climate and the poor animals I think do USA should start reusing more stuff then just making more plastic plastic like it’s dumb in Europe. We’ve started using cardboard straws and stuff that’s supposed to be plastic is cardboard here because it’s such a big waste.
OF COURSE, you are offered dessert, coffee, etc in the U.S. Is this guy HIGH? And why do these people only eat at CHAIN, CORPORATE restaurants? Go to a family-run, independent joint - Nevermind The Cheesecake Factory. . . Truly.
That thing about not ordering a bottled beer in a pub is a complete nonsense. I live in the "beerest" European country and many beers are produced in bottles only. You order whatever you feel like drinking - bottle or draft, nobody will find that strange.
Prague is incredibly beautiful and magical. Czech people are pretty cool generally. Europe is very diverse and all countries have their differences. This video is not indicative of all Europe. Mookie - you can't tip $5 you cheap bastard! As for public restrooms in Europe, many of them charge you for each piece of toilet paper (not pubs or restaurants, but public restrooms), which is messed up. I actually just came back from Mexico, which is an awesome country, but most public restrooms do not have a toilet seat, just a bowl, which is nasty.
Europe is diverse, but not that much as some people think, as a Czech, I haven't seen anything that weird or that different during my travels, there are mostly differences which are more like funny than something which would shock you. Only thing which slightly shocked me was amount of garbage in Portugal or how big coffee you will get in Poland when you order a "big coffee" but generally, it's very similar to what I am used to. Main cultural differences are between north and south I would say and we are exactly in middle.
Variety vs local brew... that variety COSTS the pub/bar to keep around, hence: HIGH PRICES ! Better fewer breweries/brands per pub but really low prices for good fresh beer. ^^ And the "tax not included" thing is just BS. If you don't show the full price of an item then you are LYING about the price, plain and simple. Can't advertise one price and then ask more. The "very well done" BURGER... you export McDonalds and BurgerKing and suddenly expect visitors to treat a BURGER like a FINE STEAK ? A burger is cheap fast food, steak is fine dining. And the tipping is just... it makes the USA look worse than 3rd world countries that we, as CUSTOMERS(!), are responsible wether the personal get to afford dinner themself? WTF is this HELL?
Oh, lord, where do we begin....? Another European who needs to be 'schooled' about his own country (by an American.) The Czech Republic is a (fairly new), small nation of 10.5 million people (like Portugal) with a government that heavily subsidizes both beer and wine production, primarily due to the "Pilsner" tradition of beermaking, and that Czechs drink more beer, per capita, than any other nation on Earth (no joke...); without levying excise tax on bars/saloons. The tax is collected in retail levies, which add more to the cost of a bottle of beer/alcohol when purchased rather than a single glass of wine or pint of beer consumed at a restaurant. The same can not be written for hard liquor, as the taxes levied on hard liquor are higher in the Czech Republic than in most areas in the U.S. and throughout Europe. Beer production is a native industry which the Czech government literally finances, in both grants and tax breaks. Domestic liquor (whisky, etc.) is of a poorer quality in the Czech Republic than in the U.S. and other countries. Nations like Finland, Sweden, Turkey, among many others, tax ALL alcohol products at a very high rate, for Europe and by U.S. tax levies.
Beer is not subsidized, most breweries are owned by some entity outside the country. The price is determined by the market. Also, whisky is not exactly a thing here, and fruit distillates are cheaper than beer or wine, as each person can have 30 litres of pure alcohol produced for a year for a $6.2 tax per litre plus the cost of the distillation site and the necessary ingredients. So for less than $190 in tax you can enjoy 75 litres of 40% alcohol per year.
The guy complaining about the US beer prices, doesn't know what he is talking about. Beer in Europe can easily costs 10-15 usd in many pubs in europe. I am pleasnetly surprised whenever I find a place for less than usd,
The original video is from May 2022( @HONESTGUIDE ), when prices were lower, but if you don't believe him, just look at some price lists in Prague pubs or restaurants and you can still easily find beer priced under 70 CZK(3 USD).
this guy is tripping. everywhere in the goddamn world they gonna ask you how you want your meat cooked. not everyone want a black brick on their plate.
I want black brick. 😀 And even Czech Republic they will mostly ask you in these days, he is talking more like about very local oldschool places which are mostly only for beer, not really for food.
Your 'mind is blown,' because you don't understand the concept of a sales tax? It's baked into the name: a SALES tax, as in a tax levied/collected at the POINT-OF-SALE. MY mind is blown by the folks who STILL perform this shtick for their reaction channels...Sorry, I mean 'seem perplexed'. Unlike most European nations, which are smaller and more centrally-controlled than the U.S., there is no national VAT (Value-Added-Tax) in the U.S., and goods are not generally taxed at every level of production and distribution, as they are in most European countries. So, in Europe, there can be much more homogeneity in TAXES applied to retail, because the TAX has ALREADY been collected. Not so in the United States, with FIFTY separate seats of government among nearly 400 million people. SALES TAXES are levied by the individual STATE, not the federal government. THERE IS NO NATIONAL SALES TAX in the United States, unlike MOST European countries. In the Czech Republic, the retail tax is the same in Prague as in all other areas of this small country. In the U.S., SALES TAXES vary from state-to-state, sometimes even city-to-city. Some states don't even have sales tax or even income tax. New York City, as but one example, is so large and so complex that it levies its OWN sales tax. (Here is something to REALLY blow your mind: New York City, with its eight-million people, has a larger economy, at $2.1 trillion, than the Russian Federation, at $1.8 trillion and 143 million people. THERE - that is a REAL mind-blower.) Stop thinking of the U.S. as the United STATE of America - Each State is, essentially, its own country.
None of this prohibits you from calculating the tax and putting the final price on the label. Literally nothing. 😉 Unless your store is half in one state and half in another.
it's pretty much same when it comes to variety across EU - it's super low compared to US and products that have lots of variants differ between countries
Most Americans always forget that there are many countries and cultures in Europe. This video purely compares how things are done in The Czech Republic and America. Things are done differently in pretty much every European country. There are subtle differences between all European countries so it's really not possible to simply make a comparison between Europe and America. Unless eating a burger from a fast food chain, getting a burger in Europe with freshly made beef patty, you will get it done medium if not asking specifically to get it prepared in a particular manner. In most European countries, the staff in restaurants and other eateries are actually paid a salary they can live on so they don't have to play the typical American game of being overly nice. Europeans are used to get their food they have ordered without having the waiter to come back and ask if everything is fine all the time. Tipping in America is virtually a must simply because people in the food and beverage industry generally don't have very good salaries. They are expected to earn their living salary on the added tips. In Europe, tipping is not necessarily a necessity. Some restaurants operate with a built-in service charge which makes tipping unnecessary.
On the coffee topic from a european (austrian) perspective: no, we don't put creamer in the coffe. We drink it black, with milk, or with whipped cream on top, but no artificial flavours added. (except if you buy your coffee in some american shop like starbucks, but that doesn't count)
Austria definitely has some of the best coffees in Europe, and is a bit of an unsung hero in this way. Unfortunately nextdoor in Germany it seems impossible to get coffee without the awful kaffessahnne, even when I've ordered black coffee and milk separately they still bring black coffee and sachets of the kaffessahnne 😢. Perhaps my German isn't very good, but my French apparently isn't any better because whatever I order in France, they almost always bring very milky coffee because they can't imagine British people drinking any other type of coffee 😂. Never any problems in Austria or Italy though.
Starbucks doesn't have coffee either, what you get there is absolutely dishwater, you don't drink that, you throw it away.
sorry to say but american coffee is crap that is why they have to put so many things into it, you hardly can force down that dishwater otherwise. european coffee is on a whole other level.
Restaurants in Europe usually have a chef. A professional who KNOWS how to prepare food.
Above alle, restaurants in Europe have customers with a sense of taste!
@@matthewrandom4523I couldn’t agree more😂
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I am against tipping, the only thing it does is take away the owner's responsibility to pay his employees well.
I have to disagree. When I get a great experience I gladly drop a nice tip for the waiter. Just few days back I have been to a small café. Just kill some time there when waiting for my friend. There was just one waiter and she didnt stopped but she was always smiling, brought my order fast. Just perfect. Of course I gave her huge tip. She deserved it.
@@CaptainGarisen-bl3vp I think problem isn't tipping. In Europe it's normal to tip but no one is asking you for tip or flipping tablet where you have to select %. It just shows that waiter went far and beyond. If you are just doing your job no tip is fine bcs you get paid fair wage that you can live off of. Still I would consider myself against tipping especially in fastfood or take out.
@@stepaniero In some European countries like England, a tip is now included. It is ridiculous!
I think what he meant to say was that you tip in Europe too when you get some good service, but the waiter isnt dependant on that tip, in USA waiters are very underpaid and they have to depend on tips to make it through@@CaptainGarisen-bl3vp
@@CaptainGarisen-bl3vpthat's your choice. It should not be mandatory. Are you mad or what?
Pay your employees decent wages. Tipping should never be mandatory
He is not comparing Europe and USA but Czech Republic and USA.
Because in many other countries in Europe some aspects are different than in Czech Republic.
Yes exactly
But not that different, as a Czech, I haven't seen anything that weird in other European countries I visited. I would say that there is more like North/South cultural difference and in beer culture, there is difference in central europe (countries of former Austria-Hungary and Germany). More north you go, bigger coffee you will get. Czech Republic is somewhere in middle.
pretty much all points he made are true for whole Europe
@@GdzieJestNemo i can say for sure its not like that in portugal united kingdom and spain 3 countrys that i know well , eastern europe might be diferent but i dont know that much to talk about it
@@sergiopita5117 in eastern Europe Lidl Supermarkets have no restrooms, nor some cake shops
You can say that you dont want this on your food. But each restaurant has its own recipes, but you can then tell to them that you dont want let's say salat. But for steaks every one will ask you how you want it.
I don't really agree with him about the service.. it might be like that in Czech Republic, but in most of europe it's not like they're rude or grumpy.. It's just not in our culture to be overly happy and bubbly.. and it's also to do with the salary.. in Europe you get paid a good salary besides the tips, so they don't have to fabricate their happiness if that makes sense.. And we find it kinda weird in europe and just want to be left alone with our food.
And with the packaging its not about the price or whatever the customer want, it's about the environment.. Not that I care that much about it, I would much rather have them for free😅But that's the reason, to be more thoughtful about the environment.
Exactly, the service isn't that bad in the Czech Republic either. I mean there are pubs, usually those without waitresses, where you need to order at the bar, and sometimes there is a grumpy older man, which may be a bit uncomfortable, but still, if you felt uncomfortable with the service in a restaurant these days, you wouldn't consider that the norm. I mean you wouldn't go to that place ever again after such an experience. Recently, a place not far from my house changed owners because the old owner was a douchebag and no one was really going there. Nowadays, the very same business in the very same location does wonderfully just because of a small change in the approach to the customers. So no, it really isn't like that in the Czech Republic, and the very few exceptions that you could encounter won't really last all that long in the business.
The attitude is definetly different from the US tho if what described in the video is considered the standart there.
Yes eating food in peace is our holy moment .
Well in Paris they can be rude or grumpy 😂 Particularly if they think you’re English! I recommend Australians to have a flag on your bag or something. But as with everything, you can’t some up Europe by one country let alone capital city!
If I wanna drink coffee, I wanna drink coffee. A cup of coffee. Nothing else. No vanilla flavoured squishy squashy juicy splashy shitty Starbucks anything - just coffee. And I wanna taste the flavour of coffee. Kisses from Germany (where we have Starbucks and Co, as well, unfortunately) 😍
When i went to the US i was put off by the overly friendly staff everywhere.
I don't want to make friends and you don't know me well enough to actually care, so let's keep this professional.
Just a cultural thing. Sometimes it can be nice but more often than not it's just fake.
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About the food - Usually a chef in the kitchen choses the menu and since he is profesional at cooking there should be no need to give him advice how to prepare the food you want.
If you are alergic to something then order something else.
(steak is exception)
I also obey the golden rule of restaurants - do not piss off people that handle or prepare your food :D
Appreciate your comment family and insight on the video
Happiness is not pretending to be, it is a real feeling. In the US, everyone seems happy because they have to while working, but sometimes not being real at all. In Europe, I think people show more what they really feel. Don't see how that's bad. Also, Europe is very different, comparing a Chezc with a Spanish is completely different
10:25 there is differences in every European country tho, Czech doesn't make up all of Europe in general, y'all should check out more videos on USA vs Europe
Czechia is not eastern europe and their restaurant culture is pretty similar to what you will see in Germany or Austria and that already is pretty big part of Europe. There is mainly difference between north and south and actual east like Ukraine or Russia is very different.
Czech is central Europe
@@Be-Es---___ yes, thank you both for correcting me. It's a neighbouring country of ours so I always associate it with eastern Europe
@@erik9775 Nobody wants to be called an Eastern Europe just because of 40 years of communism and 20 years of soviet occupation, this is a sensitive topic for us. Communist regime is no more for more than 34 years and they still call us eastern Europe, but we are back. It's kind of weird to say that Luxembourg emperors were ruling from Eastern Europe, isn't it? 😀
I suppose I'm too young to feel the same, or perhaps I just lack the knowledge. I'm from Slovakia myself@@Pidalin
With food if you don’t want something you just say or ask for it in a particular way. If you don’t ask they will just give to you how it comes. You would always be asked how a steak is cooked unless it’s a minute steak or something
Every european country its different, in my country the water is free and i think most of the countries do that,things are cheap where i live and we dont pay for everything like bathrooms etc.
It is some strange law , but not becose the water would be bad quality but becose some deals with soda companies
like breweries usually donate something to pubs and have a deal that they will serve only their beer - that's why most pubs serve only 1 brand
Ah well, Germany is pretty close to the Czech Republic (changed the name to "Czechia" recently) in habits and cultural norms, probably because we where connected via the Holy Roman Empire for ~ a thousand years, and no, we usually don't have flavoured creamer, we have (depending on type of coffee, quality of the café and some other variables) at the least condensed milk, usually given to you on your saucer so you can choose to use it or leave it, foamed milk or just plain milk or cream.
Though I have to disagree with the assertion that service is lacklustre in Czechia - I felt service in Prague was *supreme,* in many ways similar to Vienna (to which Prague is fairly similar anyway, being the "second city" of the whole of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the fall of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 to the end of the Austro-Hungarian one in 1918) and that was in the mid first decade of the 21st century.
But then I'm a German and Germany is well known for *abysmal* service...🤣
Best regards
Raoul G. Kunz
abysmal service :) You order something, u get it! Smile is not on the menu nor the more time for you!
In some comments I told how we have rich and intertwined history with Germany and they start screaming at me that "It was Austria u stupid faggot, learn your history" .. And you just say 1000y years with Germany like it was nothing :D Other slavic countries say that we are too Germanized. I mean WAS?!?!
We did not change our name. It is just an official variant, which you can use
You have whiskey, European countries have Vine, Brandy, Beer, Moonshine. American people not a beer drinkers because there is no beer in US.
In italy we put a little milk sometimes and it is not called a regular caffè but a caffè macchiato (stained coffee)
Appreciate the comment family and insight
The American understanding of a good service is so irritating to me. I want a professional waiter, not a best friend. Why would waiters introduce themselves, or ask me how my day was?
Here in Ireland most resuraunts will have a set menu but usually the chef will allow you to switch some of the items on your dish. Alot of the stuff he's talking about just refers to the Chec republic. Hospitality in Ireland is A+
Sweden agrees with Ireland
sure but noone will give you a "make your own mean" type matrix at a restaurant
the water thing is very country specific. here in France you get free water aswell. bottled water is still available but you pay for it. though the less scrupulous restaurants you have to be specific with getting tap water because they by defaqult take bottled water when you don't specify
As European I struggle to understand US mentality around tipping - do not you see that thanks to your "gratitude" is the the base salary for waitress BY LAW the lowest in US? In other words, you push poor worker to the economic edge to feel "good". Very disrespectful, even vile in my eyes. The only one secretly laughing is the business owner.
You guys are hillarious! Love from czech🇨🇿
German guy here: No Coffee mate for me, thanks - that stuff gives me the creeps. I tried artificial hazelnut and artificial vanilla aroma and I have the feeling that something in me died that day. To be honest, it couldn't make the dunkin' Doughnuts coffee any worse, as it already is sewage in plastic cups...
Well, my friends... the "First and Great Cultural Shock" without a doubt: "Soccer"?😳 What is that?...🤔
ah!" Football"⚽...hahaha..good video👌🏻😉
7:40 When we order a steak in the Czech Republic, they also ask us how we want it. But yes, apart from steaks, they don't ask about it anywhere. For myself, I like very rare Rib-eye. ;)
Well yeah you pay for sauces but only extra sauces you get between 1 and 3 sauce package for free depending on what you order (atleast in McDonald's France)
About the steak. they will ask the stake temp. But for the menu. You know what restaurant you go to for their menu. If you don't like it. You go to a different one that prepares it how you like it.
In Europe a lot of people speak (and write) good English. I'm Portuguese and I have no problem understanding and speaking English.
You guys find Guinness a heavy beer?!
Damn than you never should drink a tripple Karmeliet ( a really heavy Dutch Beer )
It taste super good though
A lot of things he doesn't like about the restaurants are things that only happen in fast food or very casual restaurants. Any slightly fine dining or sit down restaurants use coasters, or ramekins, and things of that nature.
With steak they ask how you want it done, but that is all. You can exclude or include various sides, but not how they prepared.
wtf is the French vanilla flavour ? Never heard of that, even less about coffee 😅
Lol you gotta try it family appreciate the comment
@@dunsonhouse Guys im french but i dont know what is it about 😆
I'll try it someday
07:55 steak is one of the few things you'll always be asked how you want it done in europe as well. on the off chance they don't ask and you don't say anything they'll assume you want it medium
This is actually really cool
To answer your question if you want your food a certain way, you go to another restaurant, which i doubt you'll get. How it's written on the menu, so you shall recieve it period. If you like it only in your own way, you eat at home.
The most expensive beer was in Stockholm maaan.
In Europe you will be asked how you want your steak obviously, and you can change a side dish if you like somehting different.
What Europe does not do is to force you through a list of options longet than a tax report.
not all restaurants in Europe have such shiny and clean restrooms, you would be surprised (Italy ... and its eastern friends especially)
Of course, they will ask you how you want your steak in Europe !
What they sell at starbucks-places are shakes with coffee in them :)
In summary - What do you think waitress want - clear higher paycheck for her work, or uncertainty of the mood and season coming from tipping? If the owner do not think employee is not fulfilling restaurant standard, well, then he can hire someone else. Easy. Tipping is harmful for staff and should be pushed away. Are you satisfied? Give a smile, not a banknote. Employer is here for salary and I am pretty sure employer best interest is in finding staff members that profit and level up his/her business. Just my humble 5cent
You should never have burgers anything other than well done because it's minced meat and the bacteria on the outside of the piece of meat prior to mincing is all mixed up. Steaks are fine to cook rare as the bacteria on the outside is all killed off and so safe to eat. Only in America have I come across options on how to cook a burger. It's just wrong and leads to so many illnesses.
Here in the UK there's no tipping! Maybe somewhere fancy...
I’m from Czech Republic and never saw tipping here either 😂 I guess it is just the expensive ones 😅
FRANCE is much différent ! We have thé more expensive stuff depending about where and when you drink or eat
Exemple : in Cannes during the festival the clother you are from the sea or event the more its expensive...70€ for an expresso 😮
about the water not being free. In france at least it is require by law that restauration place must give free water to consummer if they ask. the law is pretty recent but honestly even when i was a child 20 years ago, you could always request free tap water. ( now its a european law )
sometime you dont' even need to be a consummer. more than a few time during heat wave period, i would enter a random restaurant or bar and ask for a glass of water and they would give it without asking anything.
Ur 💯 right...I think choice is a very gud thing 👍🏾
8:01 as per the stakes you will be asked in Europe how do you want it done, as per other food, you may ask about how you want it by yourself.
cheese and eggs are ok to eat as breakfast, european here we do that too but not the cheese you have there, that is the isssue, I live in Canada of 15 years but i never buy the plastic cheese how i call it or the frozen food I always cook my own food. That is the difference and unfortunately many products here as well as US are not very helathy i try to find helatier products all the time,its hard. Coffee size was a shock for me too😂, but thats not coffee its just water or milk,and yes I like my coffee with milk .The service in Romania where I'm from it's getting better. In Canada they are all nice for the tips. And a difference between people in Canada and Europe ,in Canada they are nice but many are 2 faced they smile but they stab you in the back, at least in Europe people are direct and sincere .
Europe is so diverse, just keep in mind guys, that most of this stuff doesnt apply to most of Europe.
I AM FROM THE SAME CITY - PRAGUE - IN POPEYES YOU PAY 1,50 USD (30 CZK) FOR EACH SAUCE - THATS REALLY REDICULOUS!!!
Just imagine you go eat at a friend place his wife made you dinner , you are going to change everything she puts in your plate ?
its same here , remember you are a gest in restaurant not a king , the cook make the best meal he can you are supose to at least try it before wanting to change it like a gest you dont insult the cook or the housewife .
Personal preference with coffee man, you can have it black, with milk, with creamer or flavoured syrups
I don't know why so many channels are reacting to this video comparing Europe vs. Usa and it's actually the Czech republic vs. USA.
yes and no - few might shift among countries, but in general it's a good well round set that cover Europe
@@GdzieJestNemo I would disagree.
@@Marina_-_- which one exactly? tipping is not that popular across whole Europe, tax is always included nearly across the globe, bathroom stalls are closed across the continent, the coffee he showed is the default you will get across Europe, variety of beer same - usually it's one brewery + few general country wide brands, attitude to garbage - mostly similar across at least EU (some more than others), restaurants don't have "make your own dish" attitude, getting tap water at restaurant - that one differs, but it's unlikely you will get it offered for free and a he said many places outright refuse suggesting bottled instead (and it's pretty much always 0,33l to 0,5l max)
90% what he said is the same in my country Austria!
the tipping reason is the same like the service reason and the bill landing soo n on the table reason. in us a waitress dont earn much money. even more the payment are the tips. So what do you do. be very very friendly and try to get as much customers as possible. because thats what you are living from.. in Europe a waitress gets paid much better. they dont need to live from it. its a very nice extra and good service deserve a nice tip. Well i thinks that are the reasons for the difference. As someone from the EU often we dont know aboutr the tipps and the waintress situation in us. So sorry for beeing rude we dont know about your bad payments. we dont do that here ^^
And if you like cheap beer, like the tips tradition. Cause otherwise the salary goes to price of your beer.
7:52 we go to restaurants for the way the restaurant cooks the food/dish. If you’re going to go and change stuff why bother going there? If you’re removing allergens then I can understand that
Not a coffee drinker, but as far as I know we don’t put creamer in coffee. Don’t even know what that is
I hope You understand that Europe is a lot of countries, cultures and languages
Including the tax in the price is EU law.
In the U.K. if a publican serves a beer from tap with that amount of head, he will be lucky if he only gets glassed.
Apart from steak, nobody questions how they want their food. That’s the chefs job is to sell good food. It’s arrogant to think you know better than a trained chef. Maybe people may question if they’re vegetarian or vegan. Ingredients are much higher quality outside of the US too. You don’t need 100 herbs and spices or sugary chemical laden condiments.
Don’t rush dining customers. That’s rude. Bringing the bill before your finished is rude as f. It’s the bill not the cheque too. You may pay the bill with a cheque. This is pretty much every country besides the US. Australian opinion who’s travelled. By travel I mean beyond Australian borders.
The difference between beers is like black and white...🤣
Hes talking about check republic not europe every country its diferent
Appreciate the comment family
there is no place called check republic..
@@theoteddy9665 just saying as the check guy said in the video Sherlock !!! And im old and used to check republic not chekia , thank you for your thougtfull coment my fryend
@@sergiopita5117 czech not check🙋🇨🇿
@@sergiopita5117 There is no check republic or chekia. The official names in English are capitalised and are Czech Republic or Czechia. It has nothing to do with your age, this way of spelling these names has been the only correct way for the entire existence of the country since 1993.
We need Asian version of this 👏
I think Janek said the wrong thing about the grumpy behavior of service workers. I wouldn't say it's grumpy, but more like neutral and in "better" businesses, it's more like professional i would say. I think what he was trying to say was that to an American, this behavior might seem grumpy. In the opposite, to us the behavior of your service staff may seem even fake, at least to me, the behavior of your service staff is the way it is mainly because they need to be tipped.
In England you can choose the temperature you want your burger or steak to be. Maybe the rest of Europe is different, idk.
Yeah you can everywhere. I think he meant takink ingredients off and puttimg others ona burger. You dont do that
OH, consumer choice . . . It's So-O-O-O confusing . . . A competitive marketplace with restaurants and retailers adding value to products and trying to stay ahead of the competition by offering options, options, options galore, sometimes even FREE items . . . Why, it's enough to make your little ol' euro-head spin, when you're used to only two, maybe three, tops, choices of toothpaste OR ways to order your hamburger/steak . . . DAMN YOU, AME-E--E-E-E-RICA!
If u eat stake they will always ask you how do u want it done. U can say how u want your food done in anyplace more or less if they dont ask you, you can just tell them.
I have been all over europe and the water has always been free. idk what that guy is talking about. Maybe its a czech thing (never been there).
I don't know the term "healthy steak", in general meat from slaughtered animals is considered by all experts to be unhealthy😁
Dude, weird logic, you don't mind leaving a $10 tip but you'd mind paying an extra two dollars for 4 bags of ketchup.
8:57 UK. We do get free tap water
1. 7:23 yeah but us in Europe if we don’t want something that comes with the food just don’t get the food and if you really don’t want you’ll have to pick some thing else like you shouldn’t have 1 million options to choose how the food is going to be like that’s weird.
2. 8:00 and with steak they ask you how you want it to be done did you that everywhere i’m not sure about every country in Europe does it but my country does and I know a lot of other countries that do.
3. 10:28 this also happened in every country in Europe since the country I live in doesn’t do this some do, some just don’t care their not grumpy, but they’re like in between like they don’t care.
4. 17:25 I completely disagree with what he said you don’t know how much damage it does to the climate and the poor animals I think do USA should start reusing more stuff then just making more plastic plastic like it’s dumb in Europe. We’ve started using cardboard straws and stuff that’s supposed to be plastic is cardboard here because it’s such a big waste.
OF COURSE, you are offered dessert, coffee, etc in the U.S. Is this guy HIGH?
And why do these people only eat at CHAIN, CORPORATE restaurants?
Go to a family-run, independent joint - Nevermind The Cheesecake Factory. . . Truly.
That thing about not ordering a bottled beer in a pub is a complete nonsense. I live in the "beerest" European country and many beers are produced in bottles only. You order whatever you feel like drinking - bottle or draft, nobody will find that strange.
"beerest" country in europe is czechia though....
Proper English is "American brothers..."
Tipping is not a thing in europe, why does he even say it is? this guy obviously grew up in america.
They ask how you want it in europe
Prague is incredibly beautiful and magical. Czech people are pretty cool generally. Europe is very diverse and all countries have their differences. This video is not indicative of all Europe. Mookie - you can't tip $5 you cheap bastard! As for public restrooms in Europe, many of them charge you for each piece of toilet paper (not pubs or restaurants, but public restrooms), which is messed up. I actually just came back from Mexico, which is an awesome country, but most public restrooms do not have a toilet seat, just a bowl, which is nasty.
Europe is diverse, but not that much as some people think, as a Czech, I haven't seen anything that weird or that different during my travels, there are mostly differences which are more like funny than something which would shock you. Only thing which slightly shocked me was amount of garbage in Portugal or how big coffee you will get in Poland when you order a "big coffee" but generally, it's very similar to what I am used to. Main cultural differences are between north and south I would say and we are exactly in middle.
its very similar, czechs are in the middle and can be considered as average it this sense...
they don't charge you for that bro.... locals don't even pay for restrooms cause they usually know where the free ones are.
Variety vs local brew... that variety COSTS the pub/bar to keep around, hence: HIGH PRICES ! Better fewer breweries/brands per pub but really low prices for good fresh beer. ^^
And the "tax not included" thing is just BS. If you don't show the full price of an item then you are LYING about the price, plain and simple. Can't advertise one price and then ask more.
The "very well done" BURGER... you export McDonalds and BurgerKing and suddenly expect visitors to treat a BURGER like a FINE STEAK ? A burger is cheap fast food, steak is fine dining.
And the tipping is just... it makes the USA look worse than 3rd world countries that we, as CUSTOMERS(!), are responsible wether the personal get to afford dinner themself? WTF is this HELL?
Oh, lord, where do we begin....? Another European who needs to be 'schooled' about his own country (by an American.)
The Czech Republic is a (fairly new), small nation of 10.5 million people (like Portugal) with a government that heavily subsidizes both beer
and wine production, primarily due to the "Pilsner" tradition of beermaking, and that Czechs drink more beer, per capita, than any other nation on Earth (no joke...);
without levying excise tax on bars/saloons. The tax is collected in retail levies, which add more
to the cost of a bottle of beer/alcohol when purchased rather than a single glass of wine or pint of beer consumed at
a restaurant. The same can not be written for hard liquor, as the taxes levied on hard liquor are higher in the Czech Republic than
in most areas in the U.S. and throughout Europe. Beer production is a native industry which the Czech government literally finances,
in both grants and tax breaks. Domestic liquor (whisky, etc.) is of a poorer quality in the Czech Republic than in the U.S. and other countries.
Nations like Finland, Sweden, Turkey, among many others, tax ALL alcohol products at a very high rate, for Europe and by U.S. tax levies.
Beer is not subsidized, most breweries are owned by some entity outside the country. The price is determined by the market. Also, whisky is not exactly a thing here, and fruit distillates are cheaper than beer or wine, as each person can have 30 litres of pure alcohol produced for a year for a $6.2 tax per litre plus the cost of the distillation site and the necessary ingredients. So for less than $190 in tax you can enjoy 75 litres of 40% alcohol per year.
0 euro tip here in Italy
Merican desperate false cheer to get a tip to make up for your boss paying substandard living wages, disgusting
No no bro your a pee'n 👍
In America, if you have content based on other people's videos, is it not appropriate to watch sponsors? Very rude, otherwise amusing.
The guy complaining about the US beer prices, doesn't know what he is talking about. Beer in Europe can easily costs 10-15 usd in many pubs in europe. I am pleasnetly surprised whenever I find a place for less than usd,
The original video is from May 2022( @HONESTGUIDE ), when prices were lower, but if you don't believe him, just look at some price lists in Prague pubs or restaurants and you can still easily find beer priced under 70 CZK(3 USD).
wasn't he talking specifically about The Czech Republic
this guy is tripping. everywhere in the goddamn world they gonna ask you how you want your meat cooked. not everyone want a black brick on their plate.
It's about changing orders, not whether I want the meat to be well done. A chef thinks about who writes a menu.
I want black brick. 😀 And even Czech Republic they will mostly ask you in these days, he is talking more like about very local oldschool places which are mostly only for beer, not really for food.
Your 'mind is blown,' because you don't understand the concept of a sales tax?
It's baked into the name: a SALES tax, as in a tax levied/collected at the POINT-OF-SALE.
MY mind is blown by the folks who STILL perform this shtick for their reaction channels...Sorry,
I mean 'seem perplexed'. Unlike most European nations, which are smaller and more centrally-controlled than the U.S.,
there is no national VAT (Value-Added-Tax) in the U.S., and goods are not generally taxed at every level of
production and distribution, as they are in most European countries. So, in Europe, there can be
much more homogeneity in TAXES applied to retail, because the TAX has ALREADY been collected.
Not so in the United States, with FIFTY separate seats of government among nearly 400 million people.
SALES TAXES are levied by the individual STATE, not the federal government. THERE IS NO NATIONAL
SALES TAX in the United States, unlike MOST European countries. In the Czech Republic, the retail tax is the same
in Prague as in all other areas of this small country. In the U.S., SALES TAXES vary from state-to-state,
sometimes even city-to-city. Some states don't even have sales tax or even income tax. New York City, as but one example,
is so large and so complex that it levies its OWN sales tax. (Here is something to REALLY blow your mind: New York City,
with its eight-million people, has a larger economy, at $2.1 trillion, than the Russian Federation, at $1.8 trillion
and 143 million people. THERE - that is a REAL mind-blower.) Stop thinking of the U.S. as the United STATE
of America - Each State is, essentially, its own country.
None of this prohibits you from calculating the tax and putting the final price on the label. Literally nothing. 😉
Unless your store is half in one state and half in another.
Not wanting variety is a eastern european thing, it aint like that in western europe from what ive seen.
it's pretty much same when it comes to variety across EU - it's super low compared to US and products that have lots of variants differ between countries
That guy was insufferable
Do part two ❤
Most Americans always forget that there are many countries and cultures in Europe. This video purely compares how things are done in The Czech Republic and America. Things are done differently in pretty much every European country. There are subtle differences between all European countries so it's really not possible to simply make a comparison between Europe and America.
Unless eating a burger from a fast food chain, getting a burger in Europe with freshly made beef patty, you will get it done medium if not asking specifically to get it prepared in a particular manner.
In most European countries, the staff in restaurants and other eateries are actually paid a salary they can live on so they don't have to play the typical American game of being overly nice.
Europeans are used to get their food they have ordered without having the waiter to come back and ask if everything is fine all the time.
Tipping in America is virtually a must simply because people in the food and beverage industry generally don't have very good salaries. They are expected to earn their living salary on the added tips.
In Europe, tipping is not necessarily a necessity. Some restaurants operate with a built-in service charge which makes tipping unnecessary.