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Italy’s top court rules against tourist refused tap water in Dolomites hotel
(www.theguardian.com)
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In Berlin for eg its tough to get tap water. You ask for it and get it 20mins later after a 2nd request. It's more see as a task for something that customer wants but is not directly tied to making income.
(I don't want a yes but reply). Just a comment.
Germany is very weird about water. We have clean good tap water everywhere but restaurants want you to pay for bottled water. I have been to a few countries and most of them give you water without asking. But not Germany.
I've heard that was rooted in the aftermath of WWII, infrastructure was destroyed and acquiring clean drinking water was difficult, so people started having a large reservation against tap water, sticking to bottled water, and it just stuck. Word-of-mouth history though, so grain of salt and all.
AFAIK it's not about drinking tap water. Pretty much everyone knows that our water is high quality. It's more that it's not freely offered at restaurants and requesting it is sometimes even frowned upon. We went to a spot where a friend was rather rudely cut off after the second glass of water while the whole table was ordering the "expensive" drinks.
If you sit at a table in Australia they will bring you water and glasses when they come to give you menus (at a mid-expense cafe/restuarant).
At a low expense resturant/cafe/pub the water will be available in ready filled re-usable bottles on a table/fridge with stacks of glasses and you grab bottles and glasses for your table as needed.
In higher end resturants the waiter will seat you then ask if you would like any water and offer "tap, sparkling or still". "Tap" in this case will be chilled and served in a nice caraf or jug, poured by the waiter. And the sparkling or still options are 'brand name' bottled water which you pay for.
Water is legally required to be served upon request in any food/drink serving establishment and you will be served immediately and without judgement just as if you were buying any other drink.
Recently I had a note-worthy experience at Marmelo in Melbourne CBD: The wait staff asked the usual "still or sparkling" I opted for still, as it's usually free/tap but others opted for sparkling. Turns out the sparkling was from a tap so it was also free! And I'm noticing this more and more in establishments, in Melbourne at least.
No way! I love sparkling water but dont want to pay for the bullshit expensive french ones that reataurants uaually have, hopefully this catches on. Sparkling water is super common in Europe i have noticed, they have like low, medium & high fizz level options for bottles you buy at shops, and in Italy i even stopped at a place that had a public water fountain that had both still & sparkling water, which was weird given that public toilets all cost for use over there too.
I don't think we have that rule in Germany. I only know that the cheapest drink on the menu must be non alcoholic.
Yes but the reasom for that most of the time is that you can't book tab water in the system, so it falls short of memory more often unfortunately. Moreso in a busy shift.