The perception of service
The differences in food cultures are also expressed in other ways, which can be illustrated as follows: A Dane, a Frenchman and an American met for breakfast in a Stockholm hotel. The American stops in front of the table where the waitress is preparing omelets. He tells her that he is allergic to dairy products and asks if that particular omelet contains milk. The Swedish waitress does not appear to react. She does not answer but turns her back and walks off to make a new omelet. While the American is expressing his surprise and disappointment through his body language, he sees a different table with hard-boiled eggs. “Never mind”, he says in a firm and irritated voice, “I’ll just have a hard-boiled egg.” But the waitress does not register this. She seems to be lost in her own thoughts. While the three colleagues are filling their plates from the buffet, the Dane comments on the lacking qualifications of the waitress. Three minutes later the waitress comes to their table where, discretely and without any comment, she serves the American a milk-free omelet. The Frenchman remarks that he prefers this kind of discrete service to what he has experienced in the United States where the staff with a stiff plastic smile would inelegantly interrupt the meal at any given time with an importunate and agressive “Good day, sir. My name is Peter. How is everything?” The Swedish informal form of service pleases the Frenchman who perceives the American formalism in that area as an interruption of the intimity and intensity of the meal where the intrusion of the waiter breaks the spell. The Dane, on the other hand, who also perceives the waiter’s smile as being false, primarily notices the the falseness rather than the lacking consideration of the social aspect of the meal.
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