Quote Originally Posted by kiwiMark View Post
interesting, neither of the two last comments fit with my experience
you also never visited berlin! it might really be a berlin-specific thing I talked about. berliner schnauze and so on. but i still really don't think germans put so much effort into service as a whole, from rude waitresses to lazy-ass mail carriers. maybe it's totally different in other towns - i was shocked at how friendly müncheners are, so maybe the service is also friendlier there and so on.