r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Tomcat848484 • 8h ago
I'm slightly vexed Inadvertently ordered an $8 bottle of water for myself at a restaurant
Went to an Italian restaurant to get a quick lunch/dinner pizza before checking out of my hotel and going to the airport.
Waitress walks up and asks "can I get you started with something". I reply "just water is fine". She wants to know "sparkling or still or tap". As soon as I hear the first two options I immediately start to answer "still" before processing that there is a third choice. As she walks I say I think to myself that maybe I should've gone with tap, but I figure it's okay, I can pay a few bucks for a small water bottle.
She comes back with a full freshly opened liter (1.06qt) water bottle and pours me a glass. I think to myself "surely not...".
Having drank exactly one glass of water by the time I'm done with my pizza, the check comes out and sure enough, Acqua 8.00.
I ask "you're charging me for the whole bottle?"
"Yes, that's the only size we serve, sorry. But it's okay because, see, you can put the cap back on and take it with you". It's not a plastic cap. It doesn't actually seal.
I'm sure that will work great in my luggage.
Note that every table in this restaurant has a small size bottle on it (probably .3 liters or there about) of this exact same brand, with a flower in it.
Anyway, am I the idiot for not realizing that I was going to get a full bottle? I would've hoped she might say something like "since you're just by yourself, are you sure you want to order a whole liter bottle of water?"
But nope.
Anyway, it's fine, just mildly infuriating to me.
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u/werewolf6780 8h ago
Was the water at least good? Or indistinguishable from tap water? Because man I couldn't handle $8 for water
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u/Skarizona 8h ago
Im gonna be so FR with you. Aqua Panna is the greatest water of all time
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u/foundinwonderland 7h ago
It’s so fucking good it makes me mad honestly. I have good water at home (reverse osmosis filtered) but fuck me Aqua Panna is so much better. It’s a treat for me that we usually only get on vacation 😂
Also I’m glad I’m not the only one with this opinion
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u/10kdognado 6h ago
I fully agree. When I cut back on drinking I’d go to the bar and order that. Truly the best water. 🩷
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u/MorticiaLaMourante BLACK 5h ago
What is so wonderful about it? I can't imagine paying $8 for a liter of still water, but so many people are saying how amazing it is.
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u/fuckedfinance 3h ago
Source is important.
Water isn't just water. Water also contains (usually) minerals and whatnot that were dissolved at the location where it was before bottling. Each area is going to have it's own distinct makeup. The well water where I am tastes great but may taste different two towns over because it comes from a different aquifer with different characteristics.
Same thing with beer and liquor. Einstok is brewed using glacial water. Good bourbon leans on the right balance of minerals in the source water.
Most of your average bottled water comes from public reservoirs and are absolutely nothing special.
So yeah, sometimes water is just water, but sometimes water is WATER.
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u/MorticiaLaMourante BLACK 3h ago
Oh, I'm very aware of the importance of water source! Where i live, tap water isn't great. In fact, I have a specifc kind of filter on my house to get rid of the chloramine the city puts in the water. So it's the source of this water that makes it special. I'm going to have to read up on it!
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u/CautiousClutz 3h ago
the wettest water i’ve ever had
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u/MistyMtn421 1h ago
Seriously! I think that's the biggest difference between really good water and just regular good water. Like every cell membrane in your mouth just feels so perfectly hydrated.
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u/CosmicManatee47 4h ago
It’s hard to describe. But I guess crisper, cleaner, absolutely delicious. Just try it once cold. I think you will then understand. And if not, then at least you only lost $8
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u/sly_k 3h ago
The bots are successful today, I want to spend $8 on a bottle of water now just to see what the hype is.
Well done.
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u/Kuromi87 3h ago
Same, and I don't even like water. Looks like my local grocery store carries it. adds to cart
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u/hippy_potto 6h ago
I will definitely never be trying Aqua Panna lol I feel like Fiji water has already ruined normal water for me, I don’t need another!
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u/Caedis-6 6h ago
Fiji water is cat urine compared to Aqua Panna, dead serious. Don't try Aqua unless you value having money
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u/jsteele2793 5h ago
Oh man now I really want to try it. But I do value having money.
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u/jamsticks9 5h ago
Some grocery stores like Whole Foods have this and other fancy glass bottles of water for only like $4. Resturaunts upcharge. Still a lot but you could probably try it once.
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u/Red_Paperclip 4h ago
I just checked... my Safeway is charging $2.49 for a 1L bottle of ACQUA PANNA (you illiterates, there's a literal photo...) Talk about quite the uncharted to $8.00 because that in and of itself is mildy infuriating to me...
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u/Bushiest_Beavor 6h ago
Fiji water tastes like the filtered mud. I never understood why people like it.
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u/NoMouseInHouse 3h ago
I don't understand this thread. I love Fiji because the mouthfeel of the water is distinctly different from plain water and I could clearly pick that out of a blind taste test. I tried Aqua Panna when accompanying someone shopping at Tiffany's in Vegas (so it already screamed bougie water lol), but it was somewhat unremarkable? I guess I'll give it another try, but Fiji always leaves an impression on me.
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u/triceracrops 1h ago
My one great perk at work is we serve aqua panna and as the manager i get free food aka a lot of aqua panna. And im charge of ordering it so I make sure we never run out.
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u/CyanVince 5h ago
Reverse osmosis only removes impurities from your water, while spring water is valued for the impurities... You can add mineral blends to your RO water to make it taste similar to Acqua Panna; usually only coffee fanatics use it to "optimize" their water but it can certainly be consumed without the coffee too.
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u/anon_simmer 4h ago
You should NOT be drinking RO water without adding minerals back.
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u/GuiltyThing69 3h ago
There is absolutely no reason to avoid drinking exclusively RO water. You would literally have to try very, very hard to become nutrient deficient from drinking RO water. Your diet would essentially have to be so poor you are at either starvation levels, or you would have to have an eating disorder causing severe nutrient deficiencies. Exactly where did you get the information behind your claim?
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u/madmaxjr 7h ago
This is facts. I regularly and gladly pay $5-10 for a bottle when a restaurant has it.
There’s a reason this is the go-to still water for a lot of Michelin Star-type places.
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u/EzJuCa2 6h ago
Fun fact, many Olive Gardens carry it. When I was a line cook, we called it “manager water” because no customers ever bought it, so the managers would get it half off for themselves. I love that damn water.
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u/CyanVince 5h ago
I was thinking everybody was being sarcastic until I scrolled down to your comment. Non ironically stating that you would pay $10 for a bottle of water is a real strong statement...
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u/sleigh84 7h ago
Exactly. I came here to tell OP congrats, regular water will never be the same. NOTHING will compare.
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u/lemonpencil 5h ago
No it’s genuinely the best water I’ve ever had and i almost exclusively drink it if im buying a water bottle. $8 tho is insane. It’s like $4.50 at the grocery store in NYC.
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u/Vivid-Local-7755 6h ago
ive never tried it, and if it's that good i never will. i hate Nestle and dont wanna love anything they own
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u/Interesting_Feed_785 7h ago
No it’s the second greatest. The best is the Spanish blue water.
Ok it’s actually called Solan de cabras. I just buy the blue bottle
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u/NotSaltyNugz 6h ago
Absolutely and indisputably the best water of all time, only the glass bottles though.
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u/raptyledysfunction 8h ago
Aqua Panna is some very good water
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u/FourTwentyBlezit 8h ago
Agreed, but it's owned by a subsidiary of nestle.. fuck nestle and everything they stand for. One of the most evil corporations on the planet.
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u/Ondine1948 6h ago
Tell everybody why Nestlé is so evil… Maybe starting with infant formula. I haven’t bought any of their products for decades…
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u/mittenkrusty 5h ago
When I was growing up I could see a Nestlé factory from my window and could walk to it in about 5 minutes, honesty thought I'd be working there when I left school but a combination of moving a few miles away and the factory closing down changed that.
If I remember it was something weird like caskets the company that took over the factory made (and I think now closed totally)
My neighbours son worked there when I was a small child so I always got Nestlé chocolate which as I was from a poor family I appreciated as otherwise I would have no treats.
But yeah, as an adult I know how evil they are.
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u/MugenHeadNinja 8h ago
Aqua Panna is probably the best bottled water I've had, especially the glass ones, but yeah, it's still water, not worth $8 (and tbh already barely worth their in-store prices too).
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u/Professional_File_83 8h ago
Used to work at a place that poured these bottles for table water. They refilled the bottles from the server station
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u/Frances_Farmer_1953 8h ago
Hope they never try that during a health department audit.
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u/Wise-Piccolo- 8h ago
Idk why but on a whim I bought a couple of bottles once, it's fantastic tastes like clean pure water. I even refilled the glass bottle to make sure it wasn't a placebo of drinking out of glass... It's 50/50 placebo drinking filtered tap water from a glass bottle feels better, like colder but it didn't compare to what came in the bottle.
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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 8h ago
Ya that’s pretty good water.
In Europe it’s a pretty standard price.
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u/ImissDigg_jk 8h ago
If you buy cases of it instead of individual bottles, it's not much more expensive than other name brand water
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u/Repulsive-Trip2329 8h ago
No but this is at a restaurant
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u/ImissDigg_jk 8h ago
I know. I'm just saying it can be bought at a more reasonable price. Pretty much every paid beverage has a huge markup in restaurants. From sodas to alcohol.
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u/EobardT 6h ago
Yeah the general rule with wine is that one glass at a restaurant should pay for the bottle
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u/Alternative-Bat-2462 8h ago
You can even get it in plastic bottles, but I think that takes away from it.
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u/scarlettsharley 4h ago
When i went to Las Vegas for the first time with friends for a convention, we went into a store along the strip and the cheapest bottle of water I found in there was $12. This was 4 years ago. Don't even want to know what it could be now with inflation.
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u/luca097 8h ago
Maybe it's because im Italian but .... Acqua Panna is not even a luxury brand , like it cost a bit more than the others brand but 8 euro for a bottle ?
Sorry dude totally scammed
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u/gigayoink 6h ago
Reminds me of some Americans in Norway absolutely shocked at the price of some Junior Mints and Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.
They didn't realize that these were considered specialty foreign imports there.
They could have gotten that exotic (to them) European domestic candy for much less.
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u/TatumlsntASuperstar 8h ago
I think it’s $8 USD which is dirt cheap cost at a restaurant around me
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u/LightEarthWolf96 6h ago
Dirt cheap my ass. 8 USD for a liter of water is expensive
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u/StrawberryKiss2559 7h ago
I live in the area with the highest cost of living in the US and $8 for a bottle of water is not considered cheap here. $4-6 would be what I would see at an expensive restaurant.
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u/Key_Sign_5572 6h ago
Expensive restaurants do not sell things for 4-6 dollars, period, ever.
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u/Beautiful_Climate_18 7h ago
You learned the expensive way. I did too.
Now my answer is "tap water will be fine" - no matter what the question is
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u/kingbouncer 7h ago
Sir, your mother is in critical condition and in no State to answer. We need het closest relative to make a decision, i know this is hard and overwhelming, but we need to know. Do we perform the surgery or not?!
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Sir!!!? SAY SOMETHING!!
"tap water will be fine."
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u/New-Trifle-7097 5h ago
I train my staff in very specific verbiage so this doesn’t happen. “Would you prefer a bottle of sparkling or still water, or tap?” And then if they ask for a bottle and they’re solo, we clarify that it’s a larger bottle (but ours do actually cap).
Upselling and duping guests are 2 separate things. Upselling is making sure the guests have all their options, so they can purchase what they want. Plenty of people will choose to purchase. It’s NOT using deceitful language or manipulation. If I’m making thoughtful recommendations I don’t even have to worry about sales, they come naturally.
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u/THEBlaze55555 3h ago
As someone in a different kind of sales: this is the way.
If I really want to upsell, it can also be in the words. Never bash something because 1. It’s obvious and 2. Not everyone is gonna pay more no matter how much better it is, some people can’t. Budgets exist. You don’t want to make them unwilling to buy anything. Talk about the base option positively. Then talk about the upgrade even more positively. Focus on the differences. If they agree, they buy, if they don’t, they hopefully still buy the base option. Most of my job is just informing.
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u/New-Trifle-7097 2h ago
I know nothing about sales (despite it being a job responsibility!) but your last sentence is the one thing I’ve learned. Some people know exactly what they want and nothing more, the minute they walk through the door. And that’s great! Let me ring you up. But more often than not people don’t realize they can have better, or more. You gotta let them know.
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u/RealityDreamer96 2h ago
Yeah I say “can I get you some water to get you started? We have bottled still, bottled sparkling and regular house water”
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u/theducks123 6h ago
I have to say give me the free water now. Every time I go to a restaurant, they keep renaming the renaming waters to confuse you. It's gotten pretty annoying.
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u/dadydaycare 8h ago
Yes. If someone ever… EVER starts by saying sparkling and it’s a sit down dining the next will be still and both will be at least $10. You got off easy at $8 and it’s always a liter.
Either way chug that water, you’re probably not hydrating enough anyways… no one is.
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u/merrymoonbeam 6h ago
Agreed. Choosing “still” water is never free at a restaurant
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u/CAJ1928 1h ago
In Canada any place with a valid liquor license legally has to give free tap water (and most places without liquor licenses also follow suit). I assumed this was standard practice
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u/Exotic_Yam_1703 8h ago
This happened when my parents and I went out to dinner with my friend in London. We, being Americans, didn’t realize that the water they kept bringing over (in one of those old time-y pop cork bottles) was an additional charge. We had been walking around all day and were very thirsty. I think we ended up getting 3-4 bottles and they were £8 each! My dad was very upset when we got the bill. The bottles weren’t even labeled so it honestly could’ve just been filtered tap water they poured into a bottle. We didn’t want to make a fuss because it was a nicer place and my friend had picked it out as a treat for their first time in London
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u/86number45 6h ago
Or it could have been regular unfiltered tap water they just filled the bottles straight from the tap with, that's pretty common here.
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u/PM_ME_UR_REPTILES1 8h ago
Literally had this happen to me last week in a new city at a pizza place lol I just swallowed the pill and payed without a fuss. Though mine was only CA$6. Happened to me in Toronto lol
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u/CrownLexicon 5h ago
I mean, a liter of water isnt that much. I usually drink that at a meal
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u/flight120 1h ago
Most fine dining/high end places are like this in my experience.
Where I work the only small bottled water is topo Chico.
Acqua panna is great but i love my bubbles though so it's either Pellegrino or topo Chico for me
Most people want more than a single glass of water so the big bottles make sense. Most of my solo diners who get them still drink over half the bottle. Most groups will finish off the bottle
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u/blondepits 3h ago
I’ve literally done the same thing with the same water 😆
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u/nljgcj72317 2h ago
Bought two bottles of these fuckers at $15 a pop at a NYC brunch the other day because I assumed “still” was the free water. There was no free water.
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u/drunkenavacado 2h ago
Some places will ask still or sparkling, but you can still ask for tap! They just don’t offer it as an option because it’s free. I believe you HAVE to be able to offer tap water for free lol.
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u/SmileParticular9396 2h ago
You’d gotdamn better save that bottle and make it a vase and pass it down to your children
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u/meshred47 6h ago
The fact that you got 1.5k updoots because you were impatient or ill informed is more mildly infuriating than anything in your post.
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u/Numerous_Avocado2025 4h ago
Was looking for this comment. Asking if he had to pay for the whole bottle was the cringiest.
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u/snorflipicus 7h ago
No this entire thread is making me upset. We have Acqua Panna at work. We use it for pizza dough. Its just water idk how people glaze it so hard i drink some every now and then for free and go get the tap ice water instead every time
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u/raisedbytides 6h ago
Also have this at work, but not for pizza, and I too sneak a few now and then. I think we get them at about $12 a case too so $8 is a hilarious con
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u/KiraDo_02 3h ago
Sorry, imported water is one of the stupidest things to ever spend money on, I will die on that hill.
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u/mrhorizons26 5h ago
“You’re charging me for the whole bottle?”
Did you expect to be charged just for the glass?
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u/Moron-Whisperer 8h ago
I once ordered a $169 beer. A similar named beer was $24 which we knew was a splurge and they came out with the $169. Crazy thing was it was 2 of them.
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u/Possible-Estimate748 BLACK 7h ago
I paid similarly for Liquid Death canned water at a concert.
Granted, everything at concerts is extremely priced up.
Was thinking about ordering their mason jar cocktail but they were like $27 and was like, hahah nah I'm good.
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u/A-Money-Lover 8h ago edited 7h ago
haha yes you learn this as you go to more restaurants, rookie. Always say tap (unless it's a country where you cannot drink tap)
edit: actually scratch that, ask for tap in your own country if you can drink it but when you are travelling it's not worth the hassle lol
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u/SurferVelo 8h ago
I remember trying to order tap water in Germany and Hungary, before giving up and just ordering juice or booze since they cost almost the same as the bottled water.
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u/parodytx 7h ago
It's "Taffel Wasser" in German (literally "water for the table")
I had to travel A LOT overseas for business and we had extremely, obnoxiously anal directors who would review every charge on every receipt.
I learned the phrase for tap water in every language possible. And if they brought a bottled water anyway, I'd call over the manager and demand they remove the charge as I did not order it.
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u/Acheloma 7h ago
When I asked for tap water at 3 diff restaurants in Italy they came with an unsealed bottle of water that had mildew and random crap floating in it
All all 3!
So ig ask for tap water and specifically ask for a glass bc some places do not clean the bottles they reuse properly.
I felt like an alien trying to communicate to the waiter that I prefer my water without unidentifiable debris
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u/HiFiGuy197 7h ago
Back at the turn of the century (what an odd phrase), I dined a NYC restaurant that offered us “Pellegrino, Perrier, or Giuliani.”
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u/MarthaWashington18 3h ago
this happen at dinner once - then the server dropped food into 1 of the 2 cups of water. took it and dumped it and didn't replace the bottle or take the charge off.
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u/wizzlewazzel 5h ago
I’m a water drinker, I can enjoy an expensive water and actually like this brand.
People will spend a fortune on soda, juice and other unhealthy drinks. I’ll spend money on water I enjoy. Tap is disgusting.
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u/Moneyshot_ITF 4h ago
Tap water depends on your city/state and how well they take care of their water
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u/SeemsCursed 4h ago
Exactly. My small town's water comes from a mountain spring, thanks to where we live. It tastes delicious, and has more minerals than the crappy city water that's 10 miles away.
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u/GrapefruitSlow8583 3h ago
I mean, you do you. But "i'm a water drinker, I can enjoy an expensive water" is one of the douchiest sentences I have ever read.
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u/notti0087 2h ago
The thing is, when you’ve actually tasted the variety of water, you can tell “good water” from “bad water.” Especially true when traveling internationally and tap water is unsafe. In those cases, water is never free and often bottled.
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u/GrapefruitSlow8583 2h ago
I feel like my city just has good tap water then.
Like, I definitely have experienced the "omg, this glass of water is transcendent, this is truly divine nectar" shit, but i feel that whenever the water is super icy. I have a filtered pitcher, and that water is just as good or better than any other water i've drank.
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u/tomahawk66mtb 1h ago
So, I'm a coffee nerd and re-mineralise my filtered (tap isn't safe to drink in my country) water for coffee. Started doing the same for an ice cold glass of water and it's amazing the difference the minerals make to the taste. I've overdone the minerals before and I could have sworn I was drinking a glass of milk!
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u/BackgroundWaltz3600 3h ago
Tap water where I live is delicious. But I live in a first world country - Australia
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u/AnxiousYak8216 3h ago
Wow dude I'm a water drinker too. What a fucking coincidence. Do you think we will find others with your acquired tastes?
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u/AdiPalmer 1h ago
As someone who lived in Torino for almost a decade and got tap water directly from the alps, I can say that tap water isn't disgusting at all.
Of course, it's different in other parts of Italy, sadly,, but back where I lived "l'acqua del sindaco" was often preferred. (Left about 5 years ago, so I'd think it's still the same)
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u/badhand86 2h ago
What does water being expensive have to do with enjoyment? Expensive water is expensive because of branding, packaging, and shipping - not because it was synthesized from the finest of molecules.
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u/wizzlewazzel 2h ago
Water is nearly free, in most restaurant settings it is. In homes you couldn’t drink enough water to significantly raise your bill. So even a $7 bottle of water sounds insane… but water does have different taste profiles and natural minerals that enhance flavor.
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u/turn_up_the_ampalaya 6h ago
My partner and I were tired as hell and accidentally spent $9 on Saratoga Springs water (this was immediately after the meme) at a really overpriced "fancy" restaurant one night, and we fucking crack up about it to this day
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u/Own_Recommendation49 5h ago
Yeah idk how Europe messed up so bad with water. Its free everywhere in the us
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u/InebriousBarman 4h ago
There are literally constantly flowing fountains of drinking water in the streets all over Europe.
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u/Tight-Purpose-6033 3h ago
I refilled my water bottle countless times while in Italy.
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u/InebriousBarman 1h ago
I did the same this summer in Paris, Basel, Freiburg, Munich, and Salzburg.
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u/cosmicheartbeat 2h ago
I once had a roommate from the Netherlands who was absolutely gobsmacked when we went out and the waiter just plopped a couple of glasses of water down when he arrived to greet us. She was so concerned it would cost more than we broke college students could afford. The waiter and I were super confused when she demanded he take them back, that we didnt order them, and he very carefully explained that the water was free. She thought he meant "free with rhe meal" and I had to tell her that no one buys water in resturaunts, its just free.
I never saw anyone drink so much water in one sitting as I did that day.
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u/Minute-Advisor9961 5h ago
Well I don't know if you know this but tap water is free in Europe too. It's just some places you get offered still or sparkling because the still water options are actually fantastic and worth trying. The tap water is pretty hit or miss though.
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u/HandbagHawker 3h ago
tap water is free. bottled water is never free.
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u/RealityDreamer96 2h ago
Bottled water is also never free in the US. I dont get the comments. OP got what he asked for
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u/whatisakafka 2h ago
Right, I think the main difference is that tap water is just the default in the US at restaurants and that most places will just bring tap water to your table without even asking as part of the service
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u/biggysharky 4h ago
Do you think Europe don't have free, drinkable, tap water?
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u/TiddyFukMyButtcheeks 2h ago
I live in Italy. Ive never been given the option of free tap water a restaurant.
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u/biggysharky 1h ago
They don't give you the option on purpose. When presented with the option of sparkling or still water, you tell them tap water is fine.
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u/Global-Wind6878 2h ago
Just was in Spain and got free water.
He could have answered tap, still & sparkling is an upsell restaurants do. Was at most restaurants I served at in the US
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u/TheTrampIt 1h ago
Tap water is free. Bottled water isn’t free.
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u/Grimlocklou 7h ago
Went to a nice Brazilian place for our anniversary once that have guys go around slicing meat at the table. The waitress offered sparkling or still, that’s it. $10 charge. We quickly realized an issue as were other questions throughout the meal asked to up charge. It was very deceptive sales tactics that we dig into Andy realized were common at this restaurant. We left a minimum tip - $10 for the jar of water you know they filled themselves.
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u/CalicoSyndicate 7h ago
I was trying to remember which restaurant I had this experience at and your comment jogged my memory. This definitely happened when we went to Fogo de Chao for our anniversary too 🤣
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u/empresstaco 7h ago
This also happened to a friend and me at Fogo de Chao! The correct answer to "sparkling or still water?" apparently is "just tap water please".
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u/-insertcoin 2h ago
That's literally their job is to upsell you?! Im confused how you would think anything else.
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u/VonKrolock 7h ago
If it makes you feel any worse, I can find that same bottle of water in grocery stores for half that price (around 4 USD)
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u/Joejack-951 6h ago
Honestly, I’d feel ok about that. Most restaurants are charging more like 5x retail on drinks, especially alcohol. Ever look at beer prices at a US-based stadium? They’re like 10x retail.
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u/Svndmann 8h ago
Had the same thing happen to me in The Dominican Republic. Lesson learned, tap is always fine. But Acqua Panna is amazing
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u/FourTwentyBlezit 8h ago
That's probably a good thing. The tap water isn't even close to being safe to drink in the Dominican Republic. Outdated infrastructure, insufficient filtration and chlorination. If you're lucky you'd just get a bad stomach and diarrhea. If you're unlucky you could end up with bacterial infections or intestinal parasites.. choosing bottled water was definitely the right choice there.
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u/Plays_On_TrainTracks 7h ago
That's some good ass water. I wouldn't buy it in the wild but I'll drink the fuck out of it on a cruise ship when it's included in the price.
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u/SortSwimming5449 3h ago
Always assume if it’s not tap, it’s going to cost you.
$8 actually isn’t bad. I’ve seen much worse.
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u/Atomic-Grog 5h ago
Feel you’re a little naive… nothing is free, especially in a sit down and waitered restaurant… fwiw you was entitled to take the bottle away with you, you owned it
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u/big-ol-kitties 8h ago
I delivered this water to a megachurch once. It was two 12 or 15 bottle packs and they were the small bottles totaling $50+. I wonder if holy water is holier when it’s expensive water.
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u/y2ktrashbaby 6h ago
ugh so relatable I accidentally paid 7$ for a small bottle of saratoga in nyc and it was almost my 13th reason
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u/Old_Cats_Only 5h ago
When I go on cruises I get super excited that it’s included in my beverage package.
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u/gettin-hot-in-here 8h ago
Its tap water, but from a special place with a special tap.