/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6215382
>Around one in 10 restaurants now charge for water,
Is this a new york thing? Never heard of anyone doing that

>>6215382
Fuck all that

>Charging for tap water

The most I've heard is a service charge.

>>6215382
If I ever see tap water charged, I will raise holy hell and it'll get taken off. Then I will never go back to that restaurant.

If it becomes a trend and every restaurant everywhere does this, I will either bring a bottle of water, or I will cease to eat out.

That's just ridiculous.

>>6215386
>straits times
>is it a new york thing?

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McDonald's once charged me a "dine-in" fee. I've never been charged for water though.

>>6215382
Let's just hope this gets killed before it takes off. If not, it'll be common practice in 5 years.

>mfw based Netherlands have a law that require hospitality industry to serve tap water free of any costs if it is requested

>>6215382
>and to make up for the loss in drink sales.

BOO-FUCKING-HOO

I don't give a fuck what you "lose" over the fact that I don't drink HFCS bubbles like most of your fat customers.

Never paying for water with my meals. And as was just mentioned above, if they ever charge for it here, I will be bringing my own bottle of water with me. And if they have a problem with it I will gladly shove the bottle of water up the person's ass.

>>6215407

Imagine if you were running a highly developed first world economy dominated by a certain ethnic group (let's call it "chinese") that got all of its water through the pipes in this picture, and those pipes worked at the discretion of a much larger neighboring third world country that was dominated by a different ethnic group (let's call them "malays") that resented your ethnic group for its success and politicized the existence of those pipes, and, more generally, trade and transport between your countries.

Let's suppose that the pipes were a constant source of worry for you and even little things like less dish washing could be considered helpful in reducing dependency on your larger, resentful neighbor.

Can you see how perhaps this situation wouldn't really be applicable to most other countries? Such as the Netherlands, for instance?

>>6215411
>hfcs
>everyone is a dirtbag like me

You know normal people drink wine with their meals?

>I'll bring a bottle of water with me

topkek

I work in Beijing and the food is pretty good.

However, I sometimes have some shit to do in smaller towns (2nd rate towns, Qingdao and such). Not only the food is shit but they also charge for tissue paper. So I always bring my own or simply try to avoid these places.

>>6215382
> loss in drink sales.

I think they're going to find themselves losing a lot more than drink sales.

>>6215417
So, this is about reducing dependency, not about restaurants making a profit? Since, you know, nobody here will stop drinking the water, they will just drink it at home instead of at the restaurant.

So with the dependency argument out, we're looking at costs. Water in Singapore costs 1.17 Singapore dollars per 1000L [1], water in the Netherlands costs between €0.84 and €1.66 [2] Assuming an exchange rate where 1 Singapore dollar is €0.65, this would make water in Singapore cheaper than in the Netherlands.

So, essentially, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with neither availability issues, which it does not solve, nor with price, which is higher in the Netherlands. So I don't really see your point...

[1] http://www.pub.gov.sg/general/Pages/WaterTariff.aspx
[2]
http://www.cijfernieuws.nl/waterprijzen/ (Dutch)

>>6215382
Europe makes you pay for water in all their restaurants because they have shit tap water

>>6215411
>I don't give a fuck what you "lose" over the fact that I don't drink HFCS bubbles like most of your fat customers.
by a fucking beer like a real human

>>6215424
Not liking HFCS bubble water makes someone a dirtbag?

>LOL ITZ BACKWERDZ DAY

fucking retard.

>>6215455
they also charge you to use a toilet in europe. like wtf

>>6215461

No, naturally assuming that HFCS is the default alternative to water makes you the dirtbag, dirtbag.

You probably say stuff like "normal food" without a trace of irony

>>6215407
>mfw based Netherlands have a law that require hospitality industry to serve tap water free of any costs if it is requested
I don't think companies always listen to the law.
Went bowling with a bunch of friends and one of them asked for tap water but got water from a bottle. (which we had to pay for)

>>6215465
I was charged a "dish washing fee" while I was on vacation in Europe. I guess because their minimum wage is so high.

>>6215473
You would've been in your right to refuse to pay. But you have to explicitly specify that you want tap water, and they tend to require a lot of confirmation before 'understanding' that desire.

However, if they bring you water in a bottle when you ask for tap water, you can just as well send it back as you could when, for instance, you'd ordered a steak and you're given ribs.

>>6215465
Using a toilet when you're not ordering anything is considered reasonable, since toilets are often cleaned multiple times throughout the day. However, there's often just a suggested tip.

>>6215500
>Using a toilet when you're not ordering anything is considered reasonable

*Asking you to pay for using...

>>6215465
This. When I went to Germany I found that they nickel and dime you for every conceivable thing that places in the US just give you for free. Pay a fee to use the bathroom, condiments cost extra, you need to explicitly ask for tap water or they'll give you expensive sparkling water, etc.

When the Founding Fathers called us the Land of the Free, they meant it literally

>>6215382
>Law requiring free tap water from all businesses
>No hobos dying of thirst in the street
>All is well in Arizona

>>6215554
is that specifically a law in arizona?

>>6215554
>best gun laws in the US
arizona sounds like a cool place

>>6215505
I liked Germany. They think tap water is gross, so I get that, that's why I just ordered beer, it's actually cheaper to do it that way. And restaurants and shit don't charge you to use the bathroom, but the bathrooms at the rest stops and train stations they charge you for, but I didn't mind that because it meant they were always really clean.

Plus you don't have to tip.
German restaurants are superior in literally every way to the ones in the US. At least in based Bavaria.
>tfw paper thin cucumber slices
>tfw house made salad dressing
>tfw new beer at every restaurant
>tfw fresh food made by actual chefs, and not pre-packaged shit re-heated by minimum wageslaves.
I'll bet you drink Corona too, you fucking savage.

>>6215642
>german beer

no thanks

>>6215642
>tfw paper thin cucumber slices
>tfw house made salad dressing
>tfw new beer at every restaurant
>tfw fresh food made by actual chefs, and not pre-packaged shit re-heated by minimum wageslaves.
All of which can be found at restaurants in the US. Stop going to the Olive Garden you fucking retard.

>>6215648
You have reached max pleb level
>>6215650
The difference is that those things are STANDARD in Germany, whereas in the US you have to really look for a decent restaurant. Even if a place is locally owned and operated there's a %90 chance they're using Kraft dressing. And I have NEVER seen a cucumber slice in the US that isn't the thickness of a fucking entire deck of cards.
I would never go to an Olive Garden, what kind of savage do you think I am?

>>6215665
>I have NEVER seen a cucumber slice in the US that isn't the thickness of a fucking entire deck of cards.

Stop going to olive garden

>>6215665
>those things are STANDARD in Germany, whereas in the US you have to really look for a decent restaurant
No, you just have to stop going to shitty chain restaurants.

>>6215650
Not to mention the price discrepancy. There's a good handful of really great restaurants in my neighborhood, but places that make their own salad dressing and use fresh food are always a lot more expensive.
>>6215668
Fuck you twice, I haven't been to an olive Garden in over a decade. The only time I go to a chain restaurant is when I have to go out to the shitty town where my mom lives. Sadly the Red Robin there is the best restaurant in town.

Even at the good local places I really like they suck ass at cutting cucumbers, what is the deal with that. I mean they don't HAVE to be paper thin, but they're always at least thumb width.

>>6215674
>restaurants in the US suck because I'm anal about how thin my cucumbers are
You actually have some sort of mental illness. Stop going to chain restaurants.

>>6215674
>use fresh food
stop going to McDonalds

I bet you live with your parents and complain how they eat things you don't like

>>6215683
Most of the restaurants suck regardless, but the thing about the cucumbers is it's so prevalent.
>>6215686
Inaccurate. Where do you live that all the restaurants are spectacular and use fresh food and house made dressing? Like I said, I live in a really good neighborhood, so there's some dang good restaurants in my immediate area, but they're pretty pricey, whereas when I lived in Germany I could walk into literally any place and get a fresh meal for a fair price.

Who gives a shit about cucumbers?

>>6215714
Then move back to Germany

>>6215674
> the Red Robin there is the best restaurant in town

Not my fault you spend all your time visiting the US staying in meth towns where the locals are too busy picking bugs out of their skin to notice if the food sucks.

one of the many reasons i hate yo sushi is they charge for tap water, and whats worse is they dont even bring you it in a clean glass with ice n lime or something. you get it out the fucking tap yourself with a plastic glass wtf kind of service is this for what im paying? fuck that place and fuck anyone who charges other human beings for tapwater...

>>6215674
cook here

i feel your pain, hombre.

>>6215724
I sincerely wish I could. I was just defending what the other anon was shitting on, you don't have to get all butthurt about it. Every country has something they can work on.
You know what sucks about Germany? No Mexican food. There's plenty of good Mexican food around here. Lots of cheap produce.
>>6215727
Hey man, my mom lives there, not me. My poor mother, got to visit her!

Singaporeans are weird. They'll happily spend $80 on a mediocre Japanese or Italian meal, but they'll be complete jews about 50 cents for tap water or a $10 main dish at a great local restaurant.

>>6215733
Not butthurt at all. I could care less about Germany. You seem to like it though, so how about you go there and quit your bitching. That or do something thing about it.

>>6215750
I'm not convinced. You seem really mad. Like I said, I was responding to another post.

>>6215407
There's no such law.

>>6215731
Does your restaurant make their salad dressing in-house? Who slices the cucumbers?