Artificial sweetener omission

Having given up artificial sweeteners in about 1980 or 1981 back in the "Sweet 'n Low" days, I hardly notice whether a restaurant serves them, and if so, which ones. Pick stevia, equal, or one of the other fashionable ones of the day, I do not pay attention when in a restaurant. Neither does D. So, we started discussing this last night and realized that although you can buy it all in a supermarche' in France, we never see it on a table in a restaurant or when the server brings you your cafe' or the'. Maybe because it is expensive, as is everything else there, sugar is used sparingly and carefully. It is rather like the butter conundrum, where butter is in the food, but is never set on a table with bread.