Originally Posted by stimpy

Judolphin, I am going to politely remind again you that you have far, far, far less experience than most of us when it comes to servers (and everything else) in France and Italy. Some of us even live here! So maybe you might want to keep your generalizations to yourself until you get a bit more experience. This is for your own sake as you have made some comments in this thread that seem pretty ridiculous to those of us who know better.

It is one thing to report on your experience. That is something you are the expert at. But you are not an expert when it comes to comparing food and service differences between the US and Europe. Not until you make a few hundred more trips across the Atlantic, live here, and learn to speak French or Italian.