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While many restaurants or hotels that are foreign to those in the USA have a lot of similar qualities, they all have unique qualities. In Canada, there are a number of these qualities, even at the fast-food level. Some of the things an American might experience in a restaurant in Canada can be quite surprising, and can cause some awkward moments if one doesn’t know them ahead of time.

Before you can even enter the country, you have to convert your money to the Canadian dollar. Since the US dollar is worth more, the conversion tends to yield more money. However, because Canada’s currency is weaker, their prices are higher to compensate for having more of their money. To a foreigner, the prices can seem steep, when in fact they’re relatively the same, but the conversion is different.

When someone goes out to eat at a decent restaurant, it’s customary to leave a tip. In Canada (as with many countries), it’s not only a common courtesy, but a necessity. Part of you bill will include the tip, and to many that’s a convenience, but to others it can be disconcerting. Some people may use a different rate for tipping, or may not want to tip due to bad service, but whatever the case, it must be done. More often than not, it just comes off as more convenient in the end.

Part of the experience of going to a foreign restaurant is eating foreign food that you won’t get in your native country. Canada has it’s own share of unique foods, but it also (conveniently enough) shares some of the same foods you’ll see in both France and the UK because of the history they have with those countries. Therefore, when going to a Canadian restaurant, you can get several cultures at once.

For those that are looking for something a little more American, they’d be surprised to see how different fast-food is as well. Canadian fast-food is different in many ways, like selling beer where that’s rare in America. Some of these differences may be better, and some may be worse, but above all they tend to be enlightening, as they generally come off as a surprise.

Another of those differences is how they prepare or list some of the same foods. When you go to a restaurant that you’d see in a America, they’re likely to have some of the same items on the menu, but in a different way. In Canada, for example, they use the metric system, so a steak won’t go by the American size scale of ounces, making it hard for a foreigner to know what they’re ordering.

Anywhere you go, there are certain foods that are more popular, or may not even be eaten in that country. These foods define what kind of restaurant is most common, or what you’ll commonly see on a menu. In Canada, there are a few foods like this, such as cheese and beer, that are popular enough among Canadians that make their way onto menus that you might not see in other countries.

No matter what restaurants and hotels you go to in Canada, the experience is still unique in its own way. In many ways, it can be hard to understand or get used to, but that’s because food means something different to Canadians than it does to Americans. They treat food as more of an art, where in America they treat is as a time consuming necessity. It’s just one of the many ways that make the foreign restaurant experience a reason to travel.

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