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Bistro owner’s expletive-laden Twitter tirade over unsatisfied customer

<p>A bistro owner has launched an expletive-laden Twitter tirade at a customer who left the business a one-star review on the website TripAdvisor.</p> <p>The customer, known only as Helen E, went onto the review site to post a rating of Manchester eatery Hispi, where she claims she was let down by the bistro’s “complete lack of customer relations”.</p> <p>“We arrived and were seated and asked what we wanted to drink. Champagne for the ladies at £90 ($163) a bottle and a bottle of red wine at £120 ($217),” the review began.</p> <p>“Our friend likes lemonade with his wine and this restaurant only stocks bottles of cloudy lemonade.</p> <p>“We asked could they go and get some or could we. Shop was two minutes away.</p> <p>“There was no movement on this at all so for the sake of a £1 ($.180) bottle of lemonade and putting yourself out, the restaurant let us walk away. Mustn’t need our cash or custom.</p> <p>“I find it difficult to understand how you wouldn’t stock the basic mixers that are most commonly used for drinking. Obviously I don’t know much.”</p> <p>But if the restaurant owner Gary Usher saw that as constructive criticism he had a funny way of showing it, launching into a scathing, expletive laden Twitter tirade.</p> <p>“We often nip out for people’s requests. It’s part of great hospitality. We just don’t do it if you’re a rude ****,” Mr Usher tweeted.</p> <p>“We were happy to go to the shop for your mate’s dreadful red wine spritzer ... We just didn’t like you,” he continued.</p> <p>Then he started posting Tweets which detailed the poor behaviour of recent customers.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">I’m paying so I can ask Katy at Wreckfish last week why she’s just a waitress</p> — STICKY (@StickyWalnut) <a href="https://twitter.com/StickyWalnut/status/994128897942966272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">I’m paying so I can tell natalia at sticky on Thursday just gone that I think tattoos are vile on women &amp; why has she ruined her body.</p> — STICKY (@StickyWalnut) <a href="https://twitter.com/StickyWalnut/status/994129254383308800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">I’m paying so I can say things like “get me another one”<br />I’m paying so I can slip my tip in the waitresses back pocket</p> — STICKY (@StickyWalnut) <a href="https://twitter.com/StickyWalnut/status/994127790072049664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2018</a></blockquote> <p>What are your thoughts?</p>

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See inside the “Aldi restaurant” where 3-course meals cost $12

<p>If you could get a three-course meal for €8 ($12), would you ever cook at home again? That’s the question on diners’ lips after Aldi opened a new restaurant offering dishes made from its own produce for about the same price as a takeaway pizza.</p> <p>The budget dining experience, opened by the supermarket giant in Munich, Germany, changes its bistro menu each week, offering shoppers the opportunity to try before they buy.</p> <p>“In the middle of the city centre in Munich, we not only create a central meeting place for everyone, but also give our customers the opportunity to try out delicious recipes and take them home,” Aldi spokeswoman Sandra Sibylle Schoofs told <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/aldi-opens-restaurant-serving-three-11395070" target="_blank"><em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Mirror</span></strong></em></a>.</p> <p>And it seems the old adage, “if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” doesn’t apply here. In her review, blogger testthebest1807 described the food as “really tasty and the waiters were also very friendly.”</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media"> <div style="padding: 8px;"> <div style="background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;"> <div style="background: url(data:image/png; base64,ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaacwaaaascamaaaapwqozaaaabgdbtueaalgpc/xhbqaaaafzukdcak7ohokaaaamuexurczmzpf399fx1+bm5mzy9amaaadisurbvdjlvzxbesmgces5/p8/t9furvcrmu73jwlzosgsiizurcjo/ad+eqjjb4hv8bft+idpqocx1wjosbfhh2xssxeiyn3uli/6mnree07uiwjev8ueowds88ly97kqytlijkktuybbruayvh5wohixmpi5we58ek028czwyuqdlkpg1bkb4nnm+veanfhqn1k4+gpt6ugqcvu2h2ovuif/gwufyy8owepdyzsa3avcqpvovvzzz2vtnn2wu8qzvjddeto90gsy9mvlqtgysy231mxry6i2ggqjrty0l8fxcxfcbbhwrsyyaaaaaelftksuqmcc); display: block; height: 44px; margin: 0 auto -44px; position: relative; top: -22px; width: 44px;"></div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BaZA3bYg5av/" target="_blank">A post shared by Produkttest (@testthebest1807)</a> on Oct 18, 2017 at 6:21am PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>She listed chicken breast on zucchini gnocchi, Alaskan salmon fillet with mustard sauce on cucumber salad and tortellini with rocket foam and walnuts among the main course options.</p> <p><strong>As you can see in the gallery above</strong>, the German supermarket giant has also created a stunning dining area made from a repurposed shipping container, located in a courtyard of Munich’s historic Old Academy building.</p> <p>No word yet on if the bistro is set to make its way down under, but we’ve got all our fingers and toes crossed! Tell us in the comments below, would you be interested in dining at an Aldi restaurant?</p> <p><em>Image credit: CEN/ALDI SUD.</em></p>

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