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um this video should be really interesting as I've been to both now I live in both well I don't live
in both but I now live in Europe so uh this view should be very interesting so we're gonna get
right into this video guys thank you for watching and uh let's get on to it guys hey there we are
guides from Prague Czech Republic and this is one of our favorite pups but somebody just recently
left a nasty review complaining about the fact that the waiter simply asked them you want a beer
the waiter brought the beer and then once the person was finished they brought another beer
and this guy was complaining about it what is he talking about that's the best thing once you're
finished with your beer they bring another one so for me from one perspective of a Czech European
that's a good sign for an American that may be kind of weird or rude so today we want to talk
about cultural differences between how the heck is that food how is that rude humans are so just
if I heard everything that he just said correctly he said somebody left a bad review because
somebody asked you if you want a bear you want a bear all right let me have that beer you drink
your beer and then a person brings you another bear like what the heck I'd be celebrating thank
you I appreciate that why would that be bad be bad why would that be rude I just don't get that
I really really flat out just don't get that how is that rude bro am I just naive and I just
don't get offended as much as other people do I don't think so I just think that that's just dumb
in our country our city and United States of America first of all you may be surprised what
the beer looks like well we have a video dedicated only to that and second when I walked in I didn't
look at a beer menu or something that may be quite common in the United States where you have
different beers on tap most pups and restaurants in Czech Republic will have one Brewery on tap
in the pub so that's why you can walk in and just say I'll have one you walk into a pub and
you don't have million choices you just say one in U.S not only you have a choice of beers that
are on tap quite often there's 5 10 20 but also they will ask you do you want draft or bottle
beer on tap to get drafted here if you adult beer you go to a historic so for
us that's a big cultural difference that quite often we don't understand
now a beer here costs 55 crowns let's call that 2.50 to round it up if you go to a stadium to
a sports event here in Prague it's going to cost around three dollars well that's good that in U.S
if you go to a pub it may cost five six dollars and you go to a steak also guys forgive me but
I have no knowledge or uh understanding regarding bear because I don't drink at all the only thing
I drink is water and milk so uh yeah forgive me and some orange juice occasionally idiom and it
can cost 10 15 even 20 dollars as long as I hate it whenever he goes to a sports event he's always
shocked with the price of the beer I myself when I travel to us I usually don't go to sports events
but I like amusement parks just recently I visited Universal Studios they sell very expensive beer I
ever had in my life 15 I could not believe it now I understand that going to amusement park
you don't go there for a beer you go there for the rides but still 15 yeah dude it was insane
that's how it goes in America Let Me Tell You Folks um things are not a consistent price and
um even if it's what you'd say an increased price it's a dramatic increase in price so you might pay
50 here in LA or fifty dollars here in uh South Carolina you go to La that's why a lot of people
actually come to South Carolina because you have tax you know tax-free sales and all type of stuff
that happens yeah the South Carolina's wonderful place man why did I do that I don't know in fact I
did not take a picture of the beer but I did take a picture of the receipt now the price of the beer
as I sat at the amusement park was 15 but I was asked to pay more than 16 why it's at 15. the
tax tax was not included what is this about if you go to a place and I'm not only talking restaurants
but any store shop and the price tag is the final price you pay it has 55 here it's gonna cost 55.
they include the tax why don't you do that in U.S yeah it's just sad I mean imagine me I'm 11. I I I
what I think for that um this video is long so I'm not trying to interrupt too much what I think is
there are two two cases um different state taxes that's one and number two it's more appealing to
um add the tax afterwards because it's business remember what America is it's all about scanning
the life out of everybody's pocket you know years old I have my first dollar ever and I walk into a
dollar store looking forward to buy something for a dollar right pick up the item go to the register
what it's a dollar store everything costs a dollar not dollar store plus tax no it's a name foreign
now let's switch from drinks to food in any place you can get some food right firstly
you pick something from the menu and no further questions will be asked well in the U.S quite
often they will ask you how you want to customize do you want bacon do you want that cheese do you
want this cheese do you want this or that and that it gets quite confusing for us and you can
imagine me being 11 years old in Us in New Jersey first walking to a restaurant ordering a burger
very much looking forward to it and they asked me how do you want your burger done I don't know
very well done they would make it completely yeah you can imagine what happened they brought this
everything exact piece of meat that was unedible my friends had a laugh about it why would they
do that though like I get the point very well done you know like when you're talking about
steak and all that medium rare rare I get it I get it I get it that's tough that's very mean
Prague nowadays and you will have a burger they will ask you how you want it done but once again
the the fact that you can customize anything at a restaurant in U.S is very uncommon for us here
so if you come to our classroom in Czech Republic don't expect that you can customize every single
item on the menu that's why there's a menu with things that you pick from I really hope we didn't
lose our subscribers from United States we love you guys thank you say something that we consider
to be amazing in us that we don't have here is water free water at a restaurant at a bar anywhere
you sit down at a table and in U.S you get a glass of water never happens in the Czech Republic ever
not only that if you ask for tap water people say no no no no we don't serve tap water and you will
get a tiny little bottle of water and they will pay for two three four dollars it's ridiculous I
know a restaurant where I go to and I will always say can I get a tap water they're like no we can't
do that we can only sell you about it and I quite often say I'll pay you the same price that I'll
pay for the bottle for tap water like no we can't do that crazy crazy why did we cut to here where
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the video in the description and now let's cut from the border with Germany to the pub where
I'm describing the differences between us and Czech Republic now let's talk about service in
restaurants and pubs because that may be a bit of a shock for you when you come to Prague yes quite
often it is rude and not polite at all that's also a huge difference for us when we go to U.S and
um waitress will come to our table and she will introduce herself and she will smile and she will
maybe recommend something from the menu that would never happen don't get me wrong is getting better
but if you go to like local plays a dive bar which I would consider this place to be quite
often they'd be grumpy and it takes a long time for them to get to know you and after maybe a 20th
visit they will share a little smile with you not like the U.S first time visitor oh I love seeing
coming you tourists can I take your order hi Wendy speaking of Wendy when I was first called darlink
or honey in a restaurant in the U.S I was like she really loves me she just called me darling
Oh my days bro
that's definitely something I cannot lie I love I love I love American interactions
um people say it's fake I I think not he never calls me darling let's
let's make it stay that way okay we're tough guys
a few of us considered the service at places in the United States very good and very nice and very
polite there is one thing that we consider to be very rude and that is you're finishing your meal
or maybe you're halfway through and suddenly a bill that says on your table checkbook what is
that are you kicking me out that would never happen here any business restaurant pup coffee
place tries to keep you in the place as long as possible you're done with your meal they'll offer
you a dessert you're done with your dessert they will offer you coffee you're done with your coffee
maybe you want to start over and have another appetizer in other words they want to keep you
in as long as possible you have to ask for the bill in U.S very often get out you're halfway
through here's your bill well maybe I want another something no no the bill is already on the table
get out weird speaking of this I get it let's dive into tipping and that can create some big issues
because that's a big cultural difference but in the U.S quite often we get asked do you want to
take 15 18 20 25 which for us is like whoa that's a lot a quarter of the bill just tips uh because
it's a tip based country based business why are you afforders used to be very very different I
mean my dad would only round up the bill to the next higher number if the bill was 99 he would
round it up to a hundred I believe most of our dads and mothers still do that nowadays it's
changing even here and tipping goes from 10 percent higher if you're satisfied with the
service if the service is really bad some people will simply not tip if that would happen in the
U.S that you would not leave a single Cent I've experienced people running out of the
restaurant be like what happened what did we do wrong like why did you not take so tipping is
very very different and I'm curious yeah but uh I must address this the elephant in the room Tippin
um it is important to tip in America compared to other countries especially European countries for
the particular reason first world first world uh first world employee employee benefits I I'd say
um and in America that's not the same issue or same situation in America the
tips helped the employee the workers let me just say workers for now because I'm
a mess of this employee employer thinking the tips help those people in shek Republic Czech
Republic got tips probably just a little extra in the tips in America actually help
these folks if you know what I mean because they're getting paid minimum minimum minimum
wage man you know what I'm saying well I'll say about that in the comments where whatever
country you're from I want to read what's the average tipping in your country too much
oddly good I am older and with Ages come wait
cultural difference is not only huge but it's I consider to be evil and that is packaging
garbage in general I'm not talking about if you go to a place where it's a takeout or you go to
a fast food yes they put it in a paper one day either if you're in U.S or here but I'm
talking about if you go to a restaurant and they create so much garbage so much waste even though
you're at a restaurant quick example mostly if you get a drink at a bar in the U.S they put a
napkin under it so it soaks the moist that's running under it well that's for one use only
afterwards they will throw away the napkin how about they use coasters because you can reuse the
coaster and that's just one very simple example another one is if you order a ketchup at this
place they will bring it either a bottle some places in us do that too or they put it in a oh
you get a packet that they clean afterwards they grab 20 ketchups or even in McDonald's
in Czech Republic you pay for every single tiny packaging of any sauce any ketchup so you think
about if you want one or two in us oh yeah can I get some ketchups in tiny little bags well don't
do that and you guys are going all Michael Bay packages it's a plastic back let's put it in a
paper bag and let's put a packaging and pack it up you want it to go yeah let's pack it up more
meanwhile in Europe yeah let's let's get rid of plastic straws they really destroyed the universe
there's gonna be one hell of a discussion under this video I absolutely love you guys
from us and I love greens ain't nothing wrong with you man ain't nothing wrong with what he
do he's talking facts and I love it I'm all here for it man please don't cancel my esta
here for a minute and let's talk about fee and Coffee Culture differences between USA
and Europe already well you'll get triggered more yes in Europe we do not consider this to be a cup
of coffee that's a gallon if it's more than a gallon it's not coffee this is a cup of coffee
by the way shocker they have a cup of coffee in this pup it's served in a ceramic cup it's this
size you have a plate under it dude look at this look at this man's hand come here to the
bloody cup bro look at this Bad Hat compared to the cup wow that's a cup of coffee right there
sometimes you're gonna get a spoon with it so you can mix your little espresso this is how you
drink it not a gallon doesn't fit in your car so you can drive inside that's a cup of coffee
big difference Big Shots when we go which places in U.S and they simply don't serve something like
this yeah I know that coffee culture in US is changing depending on which state you live in
if you live in a city and so on but still mostly people think this is coffee and you cannot get
this it's sad for us Europeans can I get a cup of coffee you want venti Grande Grande
like the Italian drink
now this next cultural difference may sound weird but I believe it should be addressed and that is
restrooms and toilet sizes okay in restaurants and pubs and I'm not talking about the actual
seed size but I'm talking about you have a big pup and there's one toilet there's like one
restaurant for the entire pup where there's like hundreds of people and it makes us stalls where
you can like sit to do number two are very like see-through like there's no door at the bottom
like if somebody peeks they can see you this is kind of strange and girls talk about that a lot
both are girls talk about it how like it's kind of weird that people can really uh see so that's
a big difference if there's a big Pub here it has many restrooms many toilets and right can you know
do the business people need and accommodate many people at the same time and of course the ones we
mentioned are not the only cultural differences between our continents there's many more we can
talk about different units we can talk about different forms of transportation how we move
around cities and countries how big are our cars and your cars and many more topics so let us know
in the comments if you want us to cover more topics and while you're there please don't be
mad at us this was not nah bro you solid you are solid this is a beautiful video I enjoyed it and
um I I loved it I loved it he was spot on like it's rare that I watch videos and I enjoy them
this much but um he was spot on and I appreciate his honesty and I hope you guys did too so
um I'm gonna wrap this video up I do hope you guys enjoy it share with your friends and family you
know check out the original video and so on and so forth but for now guys I'm out of here please