A RESTAURANT manager in Belgium has been branded the “stingiest boss in Europe” for charging a woman e0.50 (R6.40) to heat up her baby’s feeding bottle.
Gitte Denteneer asked staff at the Rubens eaterie in Leuvento to warm up some milk for her two-month old son.
But when she came to pay, she was stunned to find that e0.50 had been added on to the bill.
She tweeted a photo of the bill, which went viral and triggered outrage on Twitter.
Denteneer told Belgium’s Het Laatste Nieuws daily: “We were flabbergasted. This is a very mean gesture. I have never heard of a restaurant billing people for this service. I will not be going back.”
Her total bill last Sunday lunchtime came to e29.50, including an omelette, two cappuccinos and two caramel desserts.
Denteneer wrote later on Twitter, along with an image of the bill: “e0.50 on the bill because you are warming up the bottle.”
Fellow users expressed astonishment at the boss’s penny-pinching. One wrote: “He is the meanest man in Europe.”
Another quipped: “How very petty. Hope the baby found it yummy.”
A spokesman for the Horeca Vlaanderen restaurant chain, which owns the Rubens Cafe, said: “This could only happen when a customer is explicitly told this service is charged for.
“But in the vast majority of Horeca establishments this service is free.” – Daily Mail