Before going abroad, it is best for students studying in Switzerland to know about the daily life etiquette in Switzerland. Let's take a look at the daily etiquette that international students should know about when introducing Swiss catering etiquette.

first of all, you should know the dining etiquette.

1. Restaurant Etiquette

Restaurants generally have to wait for service personnel to arrange seats, which is one of the basic etiquette for studying in Switzerland. In places such as stations, restaurants in department stores and seats on outdoor balconies, you can sometimes choose your seats at will. At this time, signal to the service staff to take this seat.

2. Menu

Sitting in the seat, the waiter will bring the menu (sometimes placed on the dining table). If the service staff doesn't take the menu, they can say "Die? Speisekarte, bitte ",in French, you can say" La carte? SVP ",the French-speaking" Menu "means dinner, so if you say" Menu ",you will sometimes mistake it for dinner, so be careful.

3. Drinks

In Switzerland, we usually order dinner and drinks. Although you can have a one-time place, you can usually have an appetizing drink first, and then slowly consider the main dishes while drinking. It should also be noted that the beverage menu and the dinner menu are generally separated. Wine can be ordered by glass, bottle or deciliter (dl), and 1 deciliter (dl) is about the amount of a glass. In Switzerland, mineral water usually refers to carbonated drinks. If you don't want carbonated drinks, you must say "No? Gas”＂。

4. recommendation of the day

when Swiss students hesitate to order something, they can choose the recommendation menu of the day. Although the menu at noon and evening is different, the simple set meal is probably between 21 and 35 Swiss francs. Press "Tagesmenu" in German-speaking area, "Menu" in French-speaking area and "Today's?" in English-speaking area. Menu "to order.

5. Bills

Unlike paying bills at the cashier in China, you usually buy bills at the dining table. Say "Zahlen bitte" in German-speaking area and "L 'Addition" in French-speaking area? SVP "has a service staff to send you a bill. Restaurants generally include service charges, so there is no need to pay special tips.

6. Dining time

In Europe, people prefer to eat slowly, so the pace of ordering or serving is slow. Lunch usually takes 1 hours. If Swiss students have no time, it will be better to use a cafeteria or a simple buffet.

Then let's look at the local customs.

Although Switzerland is a very rich country, it is very frugal from top to bottom. This frugality is not stingy, just to avoid wasting.

Switzerland is a federal country, with a high degree of independence and autonomy of each state, and there are few cases of superior inspection of local areas. Civil servants of federal government departments can apply for a bus from their department if they travel from Bern, the capital, to Geneva on business, with a distance of 161 kilometers, but more people choose to take the train to reimburse round-trip tickets. Officials usually don't have hospitality on business trips, and there will be no local officials to "welcome the welcome". Experts studying in Switzerland say that it is not a gesture but a habit for Swiss officials to solve their own diet.

As the head of state, it is common for the Federal President to go out by train. The only difference is that he can take a first-class carriage. In 2111, Ms. Kalmi Rey, the president of the Swiss Confederation, came to Geneva to attend the meeting in a private license car of the representative of the Swiss delegation to the United Nations Office at Geneva. The reporter also saw her take a taxi to the Swiss Foreign Correspondents Club to attend the meeting.

After interviewing a well-known Swiss parliamentarian, it's lunchtime, and the parliamentarian wants to invite reporters to lunch out of his own pocket. He lives in zurich state, northern Switzerland. He comes to Bern every year during the parliamentary session, and he has to book a room in the hotel in advance. As a member of parliament, he can get a certain subsidy every year, but he has to take care of his room and board expenses completely during his stay in Bern.

For foreign guests, the Swiss are more "grand" than "one of their own". The Swiss Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs once hosted the accompanying reporters of the China government delegation in the restaurant near the Federal Office Building-each person took a vegetable salad as the first dish and the Italian jiaozi as the main course. Someone offered dessert, and the receptionist of the Federal Foreign Office accompanied him with a look of reluctance, saying that he only had the right to pay a salad and a main course for each invitee. Every year in October, the Federal Foreign Office invites journalists accredited to the United Nations Office at Geneva to have lunch, which is borne by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it is also the practice of a first course and a main course.

Swiss study abroad experts found that Swiss federal and local officials often participate in some festivals, which are usually planned and organized by the organizers, and the expenses are borne by the sponsors or solved by ticket income. Take a horse race in Jura, northwestern Switzerland as an example. The lunch hosted by the organizer is free for invited media people and officials, while other participants have to pay for it. A small portion of each person's meal is a local specialty snack, which is just right for one person and will not be wasted.