5 Things I Never See in Sweden
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For the point at 5:00, I believe it has a lot to do with us Swedes not wanting the "pressure" from the waiter/waitress and the American system of "checking in" much more often would probably be seen as annoying by many swedes
Yes. When I sit down to eat I just want to enjoy my meal uninterrupted.
Last time I was in the US, I had had enough of this one waiter, at a café! 😵💫
I told him, that if he wanted a tip, to leave me alone! or I wouldn't leave anything! He got the point, left me alone and I tipped $10 on a $15 bill, with a smile 😊
hello from Denmark 🌸
I have done the same….
It comes to a point when it is just enough.
I believe that we Swedes don´t want to be bothered while eating and we are a bit reserved.
Exactly what I was going to say. It's the worst.
05:07 As a person who has worked with service before here in Sweden I would guess it's about not wanting to interrupt or intrude in the middle of a conversation, as it could be found as rude. I have had multiple times where the staff asks us how the food is; but where it's not very common unless you go to a really expensive restaurant. You often have to ask for things yourself.
I'm Swedish. Thunderstorm aren't extremely unusual in Sweden. Unsheltered homeless people aren't common but they do exist. The number of them is about the same as in Michigan and that's because Sweden has cold winters just as Michigan has. I own four TV sets, one in my living room, one in my kitchen and one in my bedroom. I also have one in my office at work. Tipping isn't anything that's required but people still tip sometimes. Usually by rounding the bill off to no coins in change. Prescription drug commercials are illegal in Sweden.
I understand where Andrew is coming from here with regard to weather. There are WAY more thunderstorms in pretty much the entire continental US than we have in Sweden. They are also much more violent generally meaning much more wind and heavier rain. I'm not suggesting they don't occur in Sweden and that they aren't violent at times because they do and they sometimes can be pretty strong. More of an overall thing. Weather is just simply more extreme in most of the US than in Sweden.
@@buckstraw925 I've lived in Minnesota and Michigan for a year and there were no thunderstorms there at all during that time as far as I can remember.
@@CB-fn3me No way. Maybe not exactly in the town you lived in but I can assure you there were many many in those States during that year. For what it is worth, I literally just had to wait five hours on the Chicago tarmac a month ago for thunderstorms to disperse and then finally flew thru them landing in Michigan with lightening all around me. We couldn't even taxi into the gate in Michigan for 30 minutes as we waited for the lightening to stop.
I live in Michigan. You can't walk a block without someone approaching you to ask more money. You see them everyone, sleeping on park benches, hanging out at the bus stations, standing at the side of the roads with signs that say "homeless veteran please help". In 2019, 61,832 were homeless in Michigan. Sweden is about the same population as michigan and has 34,000 homeless people. Michigan is geographically smaller than sweden with roughly the same size population.
Thunderstorms are cozy 🖤 thanxs fore another great video 😊
Glad you like them!
I totally agree with you about the advantages and disadvantages with the tipping system in the US. Yes, the service in US restaurants is usually a lot better. Servers in Swedish restaurants can even be cranky at times, but having to pay tips "everywhere" gets exhausting and annoying.
Good inputs. Prescription drugs are illegal to advertise here in Sweden so that's why you don't see those ads here.
Advertising for them only appears in the US and New Zealand, in the rich countries anyway.
@@niklasmolen4753good to know, thanks
@@niklasmolen4753why would it be only in the rich countries?
Also, sweden is considered to be a rich country, so nothing you wrote make any sense.
@@mackan7086 I don't know how it is in the poorer countries, but I think most don't allow it. But in the rich world, only the United States and New Zealand advertise prescription drugs. In other countries, only over-the-counter medicines are allowed in advertising.
@@niklasmolen4753 ok, I see, thanks for clarifying
was on vacation in Florida a few years ago and was going out to have a romantic dinner, but the waiter interrupted us constantly, and with the bill before we even ate dessert, felt like they wanted to drive us out as quickly as possible.
food and drinks cost about 100 usd, and we had planned to tip 30 usd but felt that the kind of service, where you are constantly disturbed and interrupted ruined the whole evening, so tipped only 5 usd.
so I appreciate the kind of service you get here, that you are left alone when you don't need anything, and get all the help you need as soon as you ask for it.
Just a cultural difference, you get used to it. When they give you the bill, it's just for your convenience. You're still welcome to stay as long as you want afterwards. It's so you have the freedom to leave immediately when you want to, rather than having to wait for the bill when you want to leave.
$100 for two sounds like an expensive restaurant, they're not all that expensive. And tipping $5 is effectively an insult to the waiter. There's actually a sub-culture between waiters here in America, and it is a known thing that they don't want to take tables from Europeans because Europeans more often don't give tips and the waiter doesn't get paid fully for their work.
It's a very dumb system but it's not the waiters fault that they rely on tips. Rataurants are actually legally allowed to pay waiters less than the minimum wage here, because tips are supposed to offset that difference, so when you only give 5% tip you're telling the waiter that their service was so bad that they don't deserve to be paid. (while their service works for Americans so they likely didn't know they were doing something wrong unless you told them).
@@glowerworm What's the convenience if you stay and later want another beer or something after you already got the bill? The bill = it's time to go.
The best kind of service is the service you don't notice until you no longer getting it. I understand why they bother you, but that's just it, they are bothering you. I don't care about service that is visible or audible. Leave me alone. Do what you gotta do but do it so I don't notice you.
The frequency of thunderstorms varies considerably between different locations. Some places are for geographical reasons hardly affected at all, in other places it happens somewhat more often. However, compared to other European countries, Sweden, Norway and Finland are the least affected, 0-20 per year. Mostly due to the fact that the summer is so short. The Alpine region in southern Europe have highest prevalence with 60 - 140 events per year.
Thanks for this. A lot of people disagree with me because they see lighting twice a year. I’m sure more areas in Sweden are affected but it’s not as common for sure.
I'm Brazilian and I'm from the region with the highest incidence of thunderstorms in the world. So when I moved to Sweden I noticed this up front. In almost 4 years in Stockholm I think I never saw a lightning.
Homeless people in Sweden often sleep in shelters, and there they can Wash there clohets and get new used one if needed, and alot of them sell ”situation Stockholm” or that towns version of it and they get 50% of the profit
Short and straight to the point, that's how every video should be!
You're comments often get mildly heated but don't let that discourage you, Andrew! It's always good to hear these things and to read and dicuss with people in the comments. It's usually pretty difficult to find this type of discussion on Sweden/America CZcams.
As a swede i actually didn't know you dont get much lightning farther north and east. Here down in Skåne at least, lightning is fairly common, especially in the summers like right now.
One big thing about the service in swedish restaurangs... Swedes DONT want the staff around as much. It makes us feel bad. We are 100 % more for tipping if we are left alone. I always tip about 10% if we are out on a sit down better place. Not in fast food or café and so on... that is sort of the swedish costum. When it comes to the Thunder... you probably miss it if you go to the US during summer. We only have them when the weather is hot and wet during late summer. The latest storm was something different thou! The biggest thunderstorm I have seen in years.
I’m simply asking a waiter to check if the food is ok or if anything is needed for the meal. This should be standard. They are already bringing your food out. Not sure how one would feel pressure from that situation.
@@AndrewAustin I understand what you are saying. Its a big difference in how we work I guess. The "base swede" would not admit if they dont like the food and therefor feel pressure when somone ask. What if we have to lie? 😁 And also... my experiense is that most servers DO come by and ask if everything is good once you have eaten a bit. I guess its just a bit of difference between how "high end" the place is...
@@AndrewAustin As @moaahlgren5193 already pointed out, most swedes wouldn't say the food is bad even if it is. :) But if you got bad food, would you sit and wait for the waiter to come by and ask you about the food or would you tell the waiter as soon as you tasted the food? "How's the food" is an empty phrase like "How you doing?", you don't want an answer, you just ask to be polite.
If you have an almost empty glass it's ok to swing by and ask if you want something more to drink. Or ask about dessert when picking up empty plates.
My Swedish två öre.
@Andrew Error no Mercan restaurant found! Welcome to Europe!
1 you get seated and get menus
2 wen you are ready to order close and lay down menu! (a sign to waiter)
3 Waiter will come and take your orders for food and DRINKS!
4 While the te first corse is prepared the waiter will synk the cutlery with food orders deliver the first drinks and if included bread & butter /salad and so on
5 During the meal the waiter will keep te kitchen in sync with you and at the smalest gesture be at your assistance! (If you do not wave him down he/she will leave you alone (Respect that YOU and YOUR friends/spouse have come to the restaurant to share the experience with the ones they know and love and NOT the waiter))
6 The waiter will collect the plates and flatware when the singes tells that all in the group is ready (Northern Europe)
7 You will not be ruched to vacate the table! You will get the check when asked for.
People say they don’t want to be bothered by the waiter but then have to bother the waiter every time they need something or to get to pay.
@@AndrewAustin Yes the waiter are there for you not the other way around! (he/she is there for your enjoyment not to entertain you)
@@AndrewAustin Do I also get paid to be bothered? Then it's ok for the waiter to bother me. :)
we have it all here in Sweden as well but you can't compare directly with us because the differences are huge and about the homeless, ofcourse we have them but I have seen the bit of different kind of beggars, one difference I reacted on was that more and more of them has cell phones like everyone else and the other thing that shocked me was that one arrived to her spot in a beautiful big black american truck that jeft her of on a parking space so, we have them and there are lot more hidden behind the whole thing. If you wanna hear more about how to fight homelessness and Crime, you should definitely watch some videos from Finland because I believe they wear the clothing of leadership towards victory when it comes to these two topics. Tipping is not our thing but we also have rude foreign restaurants that will take your tip if you pay with a slightly higher amount than it really costs. I believe that we in Europe and Sweden have a bit different view about the tipping. We do not take drugs for fun and many cases our relief comes or "problem" just disappears by Changing lifestyle. Can't be more simple!
I live in northern Sweden and almost never get to see any thunderstorms. Maybe once a year in the summer if lucky and then they are usually pretty small.
I remember when i vent to Thailand for the first time and watched the first Thunderstorm there. Lightning would strike almost every second.
I of course grabbed my phone and ran outside to film it and the locals looked at me like i was crazy and had a death wish. They thought it was obvious that everyone would know that phones attract lightning and they genuinely thought i was about to get myself killed, lol.
In blekinge, I think thunderstorms is quite common, there are times where there is always atleast one thunder when it rains. Some summers it doesn’t happen quite often, but There is one summer I think I experienced atleast 4-8 thunderstorms.
Though the minimum wage being $15 minimum in many states in the US plus tipping, restaurant workers earn FAR more than Swedish restaurant workers. The inflation has hit the US worse, but still...
1. we have had some big thundertorms in the south of sweden this summer, not unusual at all. 2 living in helsingborg i see homeless people every time i go out - and we are talking swedish people. some stand outside supermarkets selling the homeless magazine Faktum, but for the past two years i have seen two people every time i go out walking with their belongings. Hemlösas hus here cant cope with all the people needing help so oh yes we do have homeless swedes here. 3 guess you are right about the TVs :) 4 i hate when you are in a bar and they put that prompt up with pay a tip...sorry NO you do get payed working in this country so im a very bad tipper that way. 5 im glad we dont have ads for prescription drugs here so its a good thing we dont have them.
What gets me with the tipping in the US is when I call in an order and then go pick it up to take it home but then the payment screen prompts me to leave a 20% tip. 😡
I have lived in Sweden for a year now. I do prefer being left alone, but sometimes it can be difficult to get the server’s attention when I need something. I never feel that pressure to hurry up and pay the bill that I am used to in the US.
It’s also generally quiet enough in the restaurants here that you can relax and have a conversation. That is often not the case in the US. Go into a Red Robin’s or something like that and it’s just constant sales pressure from the server, super loud so you can’t talk, and then they bring the bill as soon as you get your food. They want to get you out so they can seat the party of 6 that have been waiting for 45 minutes.
gypsies or roma people have chosen that way of life. They have also chosen not to take help from the government. They might have reasons to refuse, but it's not like they have been forced to do that for loss of income or too little income to pay for somewhere to live.
Wait, what? no thunderstorms? There are several each summer here in Västerås. Lightning even struck nearby several times in the last few years. Once it hit my neighbor's house - all their electric stuff fried, including their stove so they did bbq most of the summer. The lightning almost hit my partner who had the wonderful idea "It's starting to rain - let me lime the lawn".
Another lightning couple of years later struck a tree around 200m from my house and the tree broke.
I’ve seen lighting 5 times in 10 years. I see lighting every week in the US.
Where I live Sthlm southside, prob on average at least twice every summer.
Edit: and yeah, that's not a lot.
@@AndrewAustini remember my German exchange sister being scared of thunder while she visited and I couldn't wrap my head around how someone could be. To me, who grew up in the midwest (thunderstorms nearly nightly in the summer, sometimes), it'd be like being scared of the sound of cicadas.
@@AndrewAustin 5 times in 10 years? Wow, you´ve must have been lucky! I´ve seen lightning at least 5 times only this summer and that´s quite normal.
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According to the research I've seen, tips are almost exclusively negative. For the following reasons
The employees feel stressed to perform better. Customers feel pressured to give more.
People tip according to their finances and personality, and the waitress's input is almost insignificant. The staff learns this and gives extra to the type of people who give more tips.
The tip system came to the United States after the Civil War as a way for the railroad companies to avoid paying the serving staff in the carriages.
The medium salary for a server in Sweden is 14,000sek a month. The high end is 23k. This is not a livable wage in Sweden IMO
The Average in the US is 28k Sek a month and the high end is 41k sek a month.
@@AndrewAustin Just checked online. Medium salary server in Sweden comes to about 25.000 skr. Thats about 145 skr/hour.
In the us the average salary for a Restaurant Staff is $14.20 per hour or 155 skr/hour.
If you take into count the cost of living US vs Sweden it might show a different picture.
However i think you should check the low end of respective wages where i´m guessing in the US some get paid well below 10 US dollars and that´s one of the bigger problem regarding tipping culture.
@@AndrewAustin 14 000??? No one earns that little for full time in Sweden. Have a hard time believing below 20 000 for full time, whatever job you do including the lowest paid whatever branch that might be
@@beorlingo www.salaryexplorer.com/average-salary-wage-comparison-sweden-waiter-waitress-c209j417?
I’ve looked at multiple sources
@@AndrewAustin thank you. Jisses. 🙁 Officially numbers are way different. Though
I am sure you have more of it in the eastern midwest but some summers we have a lot of crackle and thunder.
Multpe Tv in the house. Well, you're wrong on this Andrew. People actually used to have more than one (once upon a time). That went away when we became the country where 97 % of the population had high-speed internet in the late 90th.
Also regarding the service. (I truly HATE when the staff doesn't leave me/us alone) To me, the type of "service" I get in the US is a big No-No! (Always asking if it's anything else or if we need the desert or... you name it... Everything they can think of.) I hate it!
I am perfectly satisfied with our system (you hold up your hand to make them aware of your need for service.) Still, I understand that you notice the difference. Cheers mate!
Interesting program! 👍👍
Glad you think so!
That’s a very interesting list you’ve got there 😅
I mean, it's also illegal to do commercials about prescription drugs in Sweden so I hope you don't see that kind of commercials over here ;)
great video
I have one TV, but it is just being used as an extra computer monitor. I have on the other hand not had any TV channels for way over 10 years now. And some of the best service i ever got in a restaurant was in a place that did not accept tips. In some countries like for example Japan it can be seen as an insulting gesture to leave a tip since good service is included in the price.
As a Swedish person im used to you know be able to buy a meal if i happen to only have exactly what the meal costs. I find it so strange that someone might potentially become angry with me because all i could afford to buy was my food. Nah i say id rather pay a bit more for my food directly and know that everyone gets a fair wage and when i have some extra money i can tip as a nice gesture not a forced one.
What part of Linköping are you in that you never see beggars or homeless? Have you never been to Ryd or Tornby or Skäggetorp? Or do you just shut your eyes to it?
we do have swedish homeless people here in sweden, they are called "a-lagare" (the a-team)
they are usually people who suffers from severe mental illness or addicion
and the reason why restaurant staff wont give ou much service as in the US could have another reason
in sweden we have a bigger need of personal space than in the US so if you asking your customers too much what they would like help with people will be bothered and give you less tip or no tip at all
or might even stay away from the restaurant in the future
A-lagare is alcoholics, and in resent times drug users. Most A-lagare in my town has housing by Soc. Most, but not all. But not all A-lagare is homeless.
Gonna skip 1-2...
3. Not true at my house.. as working from home with IT I have two monitors + laptop and computer in my livingroom where I have my work station.. connected to the computer I have a 65" TV +VR and playstation.. in the kitchen my sambo wanted her computer and we have a monitor there and then moving to the bedroom we have a smaller 32" tv as well... so the only area without a tv is the bathroom and the closet... would be nice to have a tv in the bathroom though so you could lay down in the bath and watch some Netflix.... :D
4. Tips in Sweden are what it's inteded for.. the people working get their salary and if they serve you extra good or the food is better than expected you tip. The price on the menu is set so that the restaurant will make money after buting what it need and paying the people working there.. the tip in Sweden is just extra and nobody will go home starving from not geting it.
Many restaurants don't even have a tipping option and you'll have to go to the more expencive restaurants in order to get the option to tip when you pay your bill.
5. Drugs/medicine ..yeah, we had adds for painkillers when I were young but today the hardes thing you can see is basically non-alcoholic beer.... on webpages it can be spirits or wine but I guess that's based on your browsing history.
Really, our house has a tv in every single bedroom and then one in our living room
I really dislike hearing regular people talking about homelessness in Sweden like it´s not a problem, just because it isnt very visible.
I was homeless in Lund for years (and my dad was homeless for about 20 years in Helsingborg), and the reson to why you often dont see as much homeless people anymore is to a big part because they basically get chased away from a lot of places by security or police. According to "Sveriges Stadsmissioner" who helps homeless people, we have 33 000 homeless people in Sweden, altough that number is from 2017 and is strongly suspected to be much higher today.
I don’t think the lack of thunderstorms have anything to do with Sweden, but where in Sweden you are. I guess Linköping must be in some kind of meteorological “shadow”. I have a summerhouse in Blekinge, and we have had lots of thunderstorms over the years, typical in the summer, and because it’s next to a river, which attracts lightning, the electricity went out before storm Gudrun when the cables were still in the air. Still it happens that the HPFI-relay switch off after lightning, so we have an agreement with the neighbour to come and switch it back on after thunderstorms due to food in the freezer, and the air-pump for the sewage treatment…
We have more extreme weather in the US due to the Jetstream and climate. I don’t think thunderstorms here even compare. Heck even my area in Pennsylvania has had tornados over the years.
@@AndrewAustin we definitely dont have tornadoes here, I don’t remember a single summer without a thunderstorm…
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I self work in a resturang and agre with you but we do ok. May staff havevto have a few extra olaces to work do to most are work by hrs and the younger staff have a trend not to ask more intrests in the moblie.
I think servers in Sweden are extremely underpaid and overworked.
@@AndrewAustin thanks well i have been working now for over 30 years and but love it. Keep up you good work like you videos.
Okay, the tipping system probably does invencentize better service...but does that justify the fact that a person doesn't make a living wage and being able to pay your bills depends upon people's arbitrary evaluations of you? In Sweden, I did wish servers would check in every so often so I wouldn't have to flag down people who aren't paying any attention to me when I need something, but I mostly didn't feel like the service I got in Sweden was bad. It's not like i can get a free refill anyway, so what do they need to check in so much for? I wouldn't feel it was worth it for servers to have a poorer quality of life, just so I can get my soup faster.
Servers in Sweden don’t make a livable wage. It’s like 14-24k a month
@@AndrewAustin Ah, yeah, that's not great. They have a union for food service workers, don't they?
In my opinion the service in the US isn't better but more intrusive and annoying... but then I'm a Swede ;)
And as usual, swedes commenting in ABSOLUTE DETAIL about this..
Well, I think people have the right to have options when it comes to healthcare.
There are homeless people here in Göteborg. Servers while yes make more salary wise compared to the states they still don't make that much. IF they were able to work 38-40 hours they make between 13k to 15k kroner before taxes. I think I've seen less than 15 times that lightning strikes flashed in the 12 years here.
Most restaurants hire way fewer people in Sweden and overwork the few staff they have.
13-15??? Gee, that's slavery if so. Had no idea
@@beorlingome too
@@beorlingo it's one of the few jobs that pay that. Mind you I pulled that stat from what it was 10 years ago. It was one of the minimum type of jobs that gets you the threshold of staying with a work VISA which was minimum of 13k before tax. Students are only allowed to work 12-16 hours a week and still get money from CSN. CSN is student loans come from. No school isn't exactly free. The loan is a cost of living loan, not a loan for the school. If you live with your folks you probably won't get CSN.
Tip in Sweden...properly illegal. Better to check with tax office first.
More Americans NEED to travel or at least research other (Socialist/1st world) Countries, so they can realize how bad & dystopian the US actually is rn and what needs to change.
I strongly disagree about American service being better. It's different, not better, and my god do I hate the overly eager and annoyingly interrupting American waiters that don't lister or care - they "do the rounds" as a schedule just as you describe, they are too talkative with a very shallow and fake sense of friendliness. In my opinion the service at a fine restaurant should be like a good ball bearing. If everything works smoothly you shouldn't really notice them. But I could go on forever with the American culture around eating at restaurants and how they treat the staff. American diners act like they are mighty kings and the waiters their measly peasant slaves that they can make dance if they dangle a dollar in front of them. Threatening with no tip, threatening with calling management, sending food back - not because it was wrong, but because they didn't like what they ordered, demanding that they get accommodated for every whim of special requests that isn't on the menu because "I am a paying customer".
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