Italian restaurant charges €20 for slicing birthday cake into pieces

That takes the cake! Italian restaurant charges €20 for slicing a birthday cake into 20 pieces

• The family had brought cake for a birthday celebration in Palermo, Sicily 
• Party-goers were astonished when they found they had been charged €20 
• Charge was listed ’20 X Servizio Torta’, which translates as ’20 X Cake Service’ 

A restaurant in Italy has shocked customers by charging them €20 to cut a birthday cake.

The family had brought in the cake with them for a celebration in Palermo, Sicily.

But the party-goers were astonished when they found they had been charged €20 (£17.26) for cutting it into pieces.

The cost was calculated as a charge of €1 (86P) per party-goer, despite the group spending €121 (£103.49) on pizza, wine, beer and water.

The restaurant listed the charge as ’20 X Servizio Torta’, which translates as ’20 X Cake Service’.

The restaurant listed the charge as ’20 X Servizio Torta’, which translates as ’20 X Cake Service’

The family had brought in the cake with them for a celebration at the restaurant in Palermo, Sicily

Indeed, this is not the first time in recent weeks that a row in the country has occurred over extra hidden prices. 

Last week, diners at another restaurant in Italy were shocked after waiters charged them €2 for an empty plate so their daughter could try the pasta.

Italians mocked the restaurant for the unusual charge and even the regional governor condemned it. 

Ida Germano, the owner of the Osteria del Cavolo in Finale Ligure, told The Times the charge was valid because more plates to clean meant more work to do. 

She clarified that the cost of supplying and washing extra plates so the mother could let her daughter taste the pasta would be ‘more work’. 

Since international travel returned to normality at the end of the global pandemic, several disgruntled holidaymakers have taken to the internet to express their shock at being presented with exorbitant bills in bars and restaurants in a number of European holiday destinations. 

In another prices scandal, a couple who asked for an extra teaspoon so they could share a dessert were charged €1.50.

They were billed for the pleasure of using two teaspoons to eat the crema catalana they had at the pizzeria near Alba, in northern Piemonte. 

Bar Pace at Italy’s exclusive Lake Como has sparked outrage after it was revealed it charges customers an extra €2 just to cut their sandwiches in half

It came as a bar at Italy’s exclusive Lake Como has sparked outrage after it was revealed it charges customers an extra €2 just to cut their sandwiches in half.

One disgruntled customer shared a photograph of a receipt online as proof of the baffling charge.

The printout from June 18 clearly shows that Bar Pace had charged them €2 (£1.70) for the privilege of cutting their sandwich in two.

Listed as ‘diviso da meta’ it translates into English as ‘divided in half’.

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