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please and thanksFrench coffee shop bases prices on customers' politeness
You’d want to remember your pleases and thank yous or you’ll pay a pretty price.
A COFFEE SHOP in the south of France has decided to scale its prices according to the politeness of its customers.
If a customer simply asks for a coffee, they’ll be expected to fork out a whopping seven euro. If they ask for, ‘a coffee, please’, it’ll set them back €4.25. However, if they manage to greet and thank the staff, saying, ‘Hello, a coffee please,’ they’ll only have to cobble together €1.40.
According to the owner of the Petite Syrah in Nice, customers can be just as rude as staff. Speaking to english language publication The Local, Fabrice Pepino said:
It started as a joke because at lunchtime people would come in very stressed and were sometimes rude to us when they ordered a coffee. It’s our way of saying ‘keep calm and carry on.
Apparently the price scheme hasn’t actually needed to be enforced thus far, but it sounds like a great way to keep people in check.
H/T to Eater
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