It’s said that good manners don’t cost you anything and, for the customers of one café, they could even help save the pennies.
A café in the south of France has called out its less well-mannered customers by hiking the price of a coffee if they don’t say please.
The Petite Syrah café in Nice, on the French Riviera, is charging customers €7 for ‘a coffee’, but a more affordable €4.25 for a ‘a coffee please’.
But those customers who request their caffeinated beverage with a cheery ‘good day, a coffee please’ get the best deal of all. Their coffees will set them back just €1.40.
The French are well known for their love of pleasantries.
So when standards drop it can be a particularly unpleasant shock, which is why the Petite Syrah has decided to enforce polite deportment by hitting rude customers in their pockets.
Fabrice Pepino, manager of the Petite Syrah, says the sign has been a success. He’s never been actually had to enforce the novel pricing scheme, he said, but has nevertheless noticed a marked difference in the behaviour of his customers.
It’s said that good manners don’t cost you anything and, for the customers of one café, they could even help save the pennies.
A café in the south of France has called out its less well-mannered customers by hiking the price of a coffee if they don’t say please.
The Petite Syrah café in Nice, on the French Riviera, is charging customers €7 for ‘a coffee’, but a more affordable €4.25 for a ‘a coffee please’.
But those customers who request their caffeinated beverage with a cheery ‘good day, a coffee please’ get the best deal of all. Their coffees will set them back just €1.40.
The French are well known for their love of pleasantries.
So when standards drop it can be a particularly unpleasant shock, which is why the Petite Syrah has decided to enforce polite deportment by hitting rude customers in their pockets.
Fabrice Pepino, manager of the Petite Syrah, says the sign has been a success. He’s never been actually had to enforce the novel pricing scheme, he said, but has nevertheless noticed a marked difference in the behaviour of his customers.