This just happened to my family and I earlier today. And I feel the need to really rant.

We are traveling in Prague and after a walking tour around the city in the cold we decided we wanted to stop and sit down in a restaurant out of the weather and the piercing wind.

The place was packed and seemed to lack sufficient staff, but that didn't upset us. It happens, we get it. Even when the waiter came up to take our order and told me to "put your bag some where else, I have no place to stand", I wasn't too pissed. My bag was on the floor right next to my feet and chair leg. Sure no problem, I place it under the table.

Service slowly got better as the number of customers payed up and left and we just brushed the initial exchange off. I would even go so far as to say that the food was pretty decent for what menu price was stated as.

Now, before I go on, I would just like to explain for those that don't know, the Czech Republic is part of the EU, but they opt to keep their own currency like Sweden. As of me writing this, the Czech Krona (CZK) to € ratio is approximately 1:25.8. Meaning that for every 1€ , I can change it for about 25CZK

We had ordered 3 pizzas and 2 shots of Grappa and the waiter asked if we would like to pay in Euros. But before we could decide (we were going to travel to Germany in a couple of days and was wondering if we could spare the euros), he told us that he would charged us 77 €. Stunned, we requested to see the bill and he promptly told us that the cash register was not working (it was and he was lying), and that he could not pull up a reciept. We took the menu and calculated it ourselves: 240CZK 240CZK 280CZK 2x110CZK = 980 CZK (approx. 40€). The waiter then insisted that we were given premium "Reserva Grappa" and that it cost 200czk each.

Fine.

So total was 1180CZK. Waiter then insisted that we had to add a 10% service tip on top of that.

Fine.

1180 x 1.1 = 1,298 CZK. Lets call it 1,300CZK. That is €52 if you take an exchange rate of 25:1.

To get to €77 you needed to take an exchange rate of 16.88:1.... Where the hell did you get that rate, Mr Grumpy Waiter? Still had to audacity to grumble and act as though it was our fault to ask for a price stated in the menu.

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