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  Perhaps my experience is not typical but one of the good things about France (and indeed the USA) is the attitude that people give who are in the 'service sector'.
  
  In France a waiter is not just a job done by some spotty youth in between jobs but a 'profession' where one is not subservient to the client.
  
  I suspect that in the UK if one is served by someone in their mid-fifties, who is well spoken and knowledgeable about food/wine, after he has left the table one will be discussing with one's partner what had gone wrong with the waiter's life to reduce him to this.
  
  I believe that in Europe there is a respect for 'workers' in whatever industry which does not exist in the UK where due historically to the lack of a proper revolution (we even whimped out post Cromwell) and an in-bedded 'class system.

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