If you go to an Italian restaurant in Switzerland and simply ask for water you will be served an Italian water being either Acqua Panna or S. Pellegrino and end up paying 7.50 Sfr for water!. Paying 7.50 Sfr for water can make you feel in the range between a bit uncomfortable to totally annoyed.
Separate from paying 7.50 Sfr for Italian water in Switzerland! think big trucks full of freaking water driving from e.g. Milan to Zurich every day ... how much nonsense is this?
Help stop the nonsense and refuse to take Italian water in Italian restaurants in Switzerland!
What nonsense. If you ask for sparkling mineral water you'll get it, of course, and will be charged. But if you ask for tap water in a jug they'll be happy to provide it. Same the world over, with the possible difference that here the tap water will be better than most places.
Given that I've been charged CHF 8.50 for tap water in Horgen, CHF 7.50 for S Pellegrino, well, it's a deal, it's a steal, it's the sale of the bl**dy century, as they say.
Not another complaint from you about Switzerland, my goodness man why do you stay? It can make you feel those things Mr Happy, but really you live in Switzerland and presumably enjoy a Swissy expat salary, which wouldn't be that high if the cost of living wasn't so high, but if you can't afford the water don't drink it and ask for tap water... simples.
If there was a prize for the worse complain this post would be competing for it !! If you don't want sparkling water ask for tap water, very simple! Also, check menu before ordering as everything is usually listed along with it's price.
Wow, we could take this post in so many directions, starting a shitstorm about all kinds of things.
- How Nestle and other corporations are pumping groundwater away from poor villages so they can bottle it and sell it for huge profits
- How large, evil corporations are controlling the food chain (think Nestle, Monsanto, etc.)
- How large pharma companies are withholding life-saving cures because there isn't any long-term profit in an illness that can be cured (treatments yes, cures no).
Big companies are evil. Yes, I've said it. I'm sure that they are all being controlled by Scientologists and little green men from outer space, too.
Basically, if you are going out to eat in Switzerland, be prepared to pay a lot of money for your meal. That's just the way it is.
Restaurants charge too much for drinks? Then order your meal without any drink. There is no law that you have to drink something in a restaurant...
recent studies show clearly that tap water quality is even better than bottled water,
and most of us complain about traffic and pollution, but some of us want the customer's package all inclusive i.e. with real original italian water so S. Pellegrino and no Rhäzünser or M-Budget or tap water.
If restaurants have only exclusively S. Pellegrino or similar stuff, that could be a strategy, of course.
I don't expect the Pizza's flowel being from Naples or Palermo.
Yes, but still produced in and shipped from near Bergamo. And that's the point. Water is water, if you import it from Vladivostok or from Argentina.