It's a bit regional though. In Flemish (Belgian) Dutch, the formal "u" is used significantly more than in the Netherlands (though still not to the extent that the French use it).
It was a bit jarring for me when serving personnel in a restaurant in the Netherlands immediately addressed me as "jij".
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It's a bit regional though. In Flemish (Belgian) Dutch, the formal "u" is used significantly more than in the Netherlands (though still not to the extent that the French use it).
It was a bit jarring for me when serving personnel in a restaurant in the Netherlands immediately addressed me as "jij".