Visit Denmark - 5 Things You Will Love & Hate about Denmark - Wolters World
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Date: 2022-02-04
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Ruth
Regarding poor service in Denmark, I disagree with you. It might be something cultural. What is service to you, might mean something else to me. I think that you get excellent service in Denmark. If you go to a restaurant I Denmark you will often be served by a waiter/waitress who has undergone a 3 years and 9 months training (yes I googled it. He or she should know everything there is to know about the food they serve in the restaurant, how it is prepared and what wine goes with what etc, especially if theres no sommelier in the restaurant. He or she is a professional and knows how to lay a table and serve correctly, which is something Americans dont seem to know anything about! He or she would be polite and only provide information if asked and not sticking their nose into things that dont concern them.
What I often experience in the USA is overfamiliarity from your server. As your waiter/waitress approaches your table, he or she will tell you that they will be your server and what his or her name is. I find their flippant attitude very annoying. They might mean well and think that it is friendly and appropriate, but it is not. I dont want to know their name and I dont really want to be quizzed about where your guys are from and what you are going to be doing over the next couple of days and going on hear their whole life story. Even the fact that they call themselves server and not waiter/waitress is a bit ridiculous. They are waiters/waitresss. If your job involves waiting at table you are a waiter/waitress!
At best at the end of the meal one can engage in light conversation with the server. Furthermore I dont like that in the USA you just bang down the menu on top of the plate or the cutlery. I find it very annoying. The same happens when the food is brought to the table. Just slam it down on the table and elbow the customer in the face. There is nothing more unpleasant to smell their armpits when they are reaching over to the person in the corner of booth. As soon as you get the menu the waiter/waitress demands you to order your drinks. How can you order something to drink before you have had time to study the menu and decide what you want to order? Your choice of what to drink depends on that you decide to eat.
I also find it very annoying that the waiter/waitress come over to my table while I am eating or in deep conversation whit my fellow diners, just to ask me if everything is OK. Trust me they will be the first to know if something was wrong or if I needed something else. If I am lucky it would often only happen once, but all too frequently it happens two or three times. Also coming over to ask if we are finished eating and would be like something else when we are clearly not finished eating. A properly trained waiter/waitress can see from just looking at the way you position your cutlery if you have finish or not.
Upon paying your bill (cheque) on many occasions the server has asked me directly if I would like to give them a gratuity so they can put it on the card. How flippant can you be, it is up to me to ask the server to add it to the bill if I am paying with a card.
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Regarding poor service in Denmark, I disagree with you. It might be something cultural. What is service to you, might mean something else to me. I think that you get excellent service in Denmark. If you go to a restaurant I Denmark you will often be served by a waiter/waitress who has undergone a 3 years and 9 months training (yes I googled it. He or she should know everything there is to know about the food they serve in the restaurant, how it is prepared and what wine goes with what etc, especially if theres no sommelier in the restaurant. He or she is a professional and knows how to lay a table and serve correctly, which is something Americans dont seem to know anything about! He or she would be polite and only provide information if asked and not sticking their nose into things that dont concern them.
What I often experience in the USA is overfamiliarity from your server. As your waiter/waitress approaches your table, he or she will tell you that they will be your server and what his or her name is. I find their flippant attitude very annoying. They might mean well and think that it is friendly and appropriate, but it is not. I dont want to know their name and I dont really want to be quizzed about where your guys are from and what you are going to be doing over the next couple of days and going on hear their whole life story. Even the fact that they call themselves server and not waiter/waitress is a bit ridiculous. They are waiters/waitresss. If your job involves waiting at table you are a waiter/waitress!
At best at the end of the meal one can engage in light conversation with the server. Furthermore I dont like that in the USA you just bang down the menu on top of the plate or the cutlery. I find it very annoying. The same happens when the food is brought to the table. Just slam it down on the table and elbow the customer in the face. There is nothing more unpleasant to smell their armpits when they are reaching over to the person in the corner of booth. As soon as you get the menu the waiter/waitress demands you to order your drinks. How can you order something to drink before you have had time to study the menu and decide what you want to order? Your choice of what to drink depends on that you decide to eat.
I also find it very annoying that the waiter/waitress come over to my table while I am eating or in deep conversation whit my fellow diners, just to ask me if everything is OK. Trust me they will be the first to know if something was wrong or if I needed something else. If I am lucky it would often only happen once, but all too frequently it happens two or three times. Also coming over to ask if we are finished eating and would be like something else when we are clearly not finished eating. A properly trained waiter/waitress can see from just looking at the way you position your cutlery if you have finish or not.
Upon paying your bill (cheque) on many occasions the server has asked me directly if I would like to give them a gratuity so they can put it on the card. How flippant can you be, it is up to me to ask the server to add it to the bill if I am paying with a card.
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dzsim
From what I've heard here, the only thing I might not like is that it's exoensive, although I'm sure there are cheaper shops, and maybe you get enough money from work.
I love cold weather(and actually hate when it's hot.
I like that people are quiet. It's SO annoying here, (and was in the UK, that people are noisy in public.
And I like that they mind their own business, as here there are certain people who just trolls you in public. The outside activities, I don't care, but I like Legos.
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From what I've heard here, the only thing I might not like is that it's exoensive, although I'm sure there are cheaper shops, and maybe you get enough money from work.
I love cold weather(and actually hate when it's hot.
I like that people are quiet. It's SO annoying here, (and was in the UK, that people are noisy in public.
And I like that they mind their own business, as here there are certain people who just trolls you in public. The outside activities, I don't care, but I like Legos.
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brithanii
The capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, is a lot more expensive than pretty much any other city in Denmark. They know that it's the city that tourists hit first and where only the rich Danes can afford to live so they abuse it and ups all the prices in restaurants and bars. Go to the supermarkets or visit the smaller pubs that are not on the main streets and you can find way cheaper beer and food: )
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The capital of Denmark, Copenhagen, is a lot more expensive than pretty much any other city in Denmark. They know that it's the city that tourists hit first and where only the rich Danes can afford to live so they abuse it and ups all the prices in restaurants and bars. Go to the supermarkets or visit the smaller pubs that are not on the main streets and you can find way cheaper beer and food: )
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Kristian
Not sure about this ''beautiful nature'' thing because it really isn't true. Well it's clean, Denmark is one of the cleanest countries in the world as is its' cities, but there really isn't much in terms of mountains, great lakes, canyons or general geographical diversity. It's just green and flat. The capital isle may be called Zealand, but New Zealand it is not.
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Not sure about this ''beautiful nature'' thing because it really isn't true. Well it's clean, Denmark is one of the cleanest countries in the world as is its' cities, but there really isn't much in terms of mountains, great lakes, canyons or general geographical diversity. It's just green and flat. The capital isle may be called Zealand, but New Zealand it is not.
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just
Again your service experience is not horrible, its a cultural difference, I get that American restaurants small talk a lot and smile and stuff u know, but as you said us Danes like our privacy and is considered rude to ask about anything other than the food and just the payment, so I think it's a little misleading telling people it's so bad as you say
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Again your service experience is not horrible, its a cultural difference, I get that American restaurants small talk a lot and smile and stuff u know, but as you said us Danes like our privacy and is considered rude to ask about anything other than the food and just the payment, so I think it's a little misleading telling people it's so bad as you say
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LittleImpaler
The reason why it's so expensive. It's because of their welfare system. There's no such thing as a free lunch. That free education, Healthcare and so on isn't free. It comes from the people's taxes. Free stuff equals high taxes, high taxes equals higher prices.
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The reason why it's so expensive. It's because of their welfare system. There's no such thing as a free lunch. That free education, Healthcare and so on isn't free. It comes from the people's taxes. Free stuff equals high taxes, high taxes equals higher prices.
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BASE2179
How can an American criticise the food of another country when all they brought to the table is hotdogs (which you are actually criticising) and the national dish of the USA the burger. ? $8 USD for a beer in Europe is a pretty average price
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How can an American criticise the food of another country when all they brought to the table is hotdogs (which you are actually criticising) and the national dish of the USA the burger. ? $8 USD for a beer in Europe is a pretty average price
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Mark
Lol, if you think danes are closed and are hard to talk to based on people in Copenhagen, try to come to west Jutland (West Denmark, then people from Copenhagen will seem very outgoing and open in comparison: )
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Lol, if you think danes are closed and are hard to talk to based on people in Copenhagen, try to come to west Jutland (West Denmark, then people from Copenhagen will seem very outgoing and open in comparison: )
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blackfalcon1324
It was quite funny. I was in the UK once and I heard some people who sounded like they were from America. I asked them 'where in america are you from'. And they said they were from Denmark.
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It was quite funny. I was in the UK once and I heard some people who sounded like they were from America. I asked them 'where in america are you from'. And they said they were from Denmark.
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NordicViking66
I'm from Denmark and you hit the nail on the head. I will say that I am from Jutland and if you follow the Danish you can find a beer for 10 krone about 1, 5 dollar: )
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I'm from Denmark and you hit the nail on the head. I will say that I am from Jutland and if you follow the Danish you can find a beer for 10 krone about 1, 5 dollar: )
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