German Hospitality

Last night, I and the people I was with got kicked out of a restaurant for being drunk.
We arrived, sat down outside at the farthest table from the door (all the others were taken), and waited for our server. And waited. Finally, one of us went in and alerted the staff to the fact that we were there, and about 10 minutes later, she came and took our orders-- one beer each. Well, we sat there awhile and drank our one beer a person and were laughing and enjoying ourselves, and after about 15 minutes, our glasses were empty. But we were talking and laughing and having a good time, so we stayed, waiting for our waitress to come back. We must've waited about a half hour when the guy who had previously gone in and alerted the staff decided to go in again and let them know that we were ready for another round. He came back, said it was frustrating that when you spoke german to people here they responded in english, and we waited some more. After 10 minutes, one of the people I was with joked that we should just get up and walk away, but of course we didn't. We should have. About 10 minutes later, the waitress came to our table with a big frown on her face and told us that the chef wanted us to leave because we were drunk. We did, after paying.

It had been our first beer of the evening, and, needless to say, we were not drunk.

An extreme, but typical example of the german waitress. The wait staff in germany does not work for tips, but for a salary, and so does not try to impress you. At the next restaurant/beerhouse we arrived at, the guy across the table from me got bumped in the head repeatably by trays, filled with beer, carried by uncaring waitresses.

I'm going to uphold the status quo and not tip german waitresses unless they deserve it.

At least it's a good story