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Pay 2 euros for decaffeinated espresso, call the brigade and get a fine of one thousand euros for the bar

To tell the story was the owner of the place himself who, while not directly contesting the fine, speaks of an absurd situation: “Nobody gets scandalized if you pay two euros for an express”


He showed up at the bar counter and he asked for a decaffeinated coffee that he was regularly served but, after consuming it, at the time of payment, the problems started because the customer he found out he had to pay two euros. Thus began the story that led the municipal police officers to sanction a local in Florence with a fine of one thousand euros. To tell the story was the owner of the place himself who, through social media, talks about an absurd situation.

While not contesting the fine, in fact, Francesco Sanapo of the Artisan Company, criticizes the way in which it arrived, that is with the request for intervention by the customer who considered the price of the cup too high. The fine imposed by the local police of Florence in fact only indirectly affects the cost of decaffeinated because it was issued because the price of the coffee was not correctly displayed.

“They fined me because they paid 2 euros for my espresso. This thing cannot pass, it cannot happen “declared the manager of the Florentine restaurant, adding:”Even today, a person is upset if he pays two euros for a decaffeinated coffee (water extraction process) of a Mexican plantation prepared with great professionalism by my bartenders “.


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“I am not here to discuss the fine, that will be done in the relevant offices and I am ready to pay for my mistakes. I’m here to fight as long as the right value is given, I’m here for an entire category and for the future of the Italian cafeteria and hospitality. I’m here to make sure that no one gets scandalized if they pay two euros for an express. It is a mission and I will carry it out with my head held high, ”continued Sanapo, also contesting the law that provides for the display of the price also on the paper menu as well as on the online one.


“You can get so annoyed as to mobilize a patrol of the municipal police of Florence, forced to intervene and find us (rightly according to an outdated law) in error, as we did not display the price of decaffeinated on the menu displayed behind the counter (but present in the menu QR code)? I think that with everything that is administered in bars today, this law has a lot of absurdity and should be changed, otherwise 99.9% of bars and restaurants would be easily mistaken ”the trader stressed on social media.

“I’m not someone who uses social media to complain, but this time they have touched a key that is too important for me and for the entire hospitality sector and in particular for the coffee / cafeteria world. The idea that this man now goes around proud of himself, believing that he has given a lesson, that he has done justice, I just don’t like this, ”he concluded.

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