The service at restaurants seems to be remarkably slow here. Or rather, slower than what I'm used to where I'm from in America. Perhaps service in America is remarkably fast, I don't know.
Regardless, every time I've eaten at a restaurant here, the waiter has been slow to seat us. Once we've been seated, they take a while to give us a menu. Once we get a menu, they take a while to come take our order. After they've taken our order, they take a while to give us the drink, even if I've just ordered tap water. Then it takes a very long time to get the food. And then it takes a long time before they realized we've long finished the food and need the check. And then it takes a while to process the check.
This has been the case in both crowded and nearly empty restaurants. Maybe it's because we're American. I swear I've seen other people get served faster than I have. I don't know.
They also seem less familiar with the idea of splitting the check here. At one restaurant we went to, they came back to the table four times after we asked to split the check, asking each time, "So, you want to... split the check?" Each restaurant has managed it, but it seemed like a somewhat foreign idea to them.
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