Italian restaurant in Germany invites his clients to share the account equally. It provokes positive reactions and hostile comments. Why? We go out with all the company for food, but who pays? It’s a weekend issue. In Greece, especially in the delusional “era of lobster”, the homosexuals reached the limits of the conflict until Huvardas pays for everyone. Today these morals have probably been overcome. The company shares the costs (a few euros up, a little down, the world was not lost) or agree that one today pays one, tomorrow the other.

“Going Dutch” has always been the rule in the enlightened West. That is, everyone shares the cost. It sounds logical. But what exactly does “share costs” mean? In the simple version, the total amount of the account is divided by the number of co -workers, and in Italy, good eaters do when they pay “Alla Romana” as they say. “A table, an account” usually wants the restaurant for convenience and speed.

“Everyone his own”

In a more meticulous version, everyone pays exclusively their own, that is, only what they have really consumed. Why pay the wine that only drank one beer? Why contribute to the account for fresh oysters anyone who has an allergy to seafood? So strict splitting. This is the custom in Germany (which has no tradition in Meze for “Middle”). Some waiters prefer it already, because they can gather a greater tip when everyone opens their own wallet, rather than when one leaves a puree for everyone. Others hate it again, because the detailed sharing of the account wants a job. And a lot of patience.

For Salvatore Maratsos, owner of “Accanto” near Stuttgart, patience is exhausted. Therefore, the Italian restaurant invites customers to pay Alla Romana to avoid misunderstandings and delays in the service. As he explains to German media, he had an extreme case, “where a group was discussing if one would have to pay for a glass of 100 ml from an entire bottle and how the waiter would calculate his share” and in the end, after this issue was resolved, “there was no water left or a water.”

“At least say it from the beginning …”

It seems that some media has distorted the whole issue, passing the message that the Italian restaurant “forbids” the account of the account. Suddenly, Salvatore Maratsos became a nationwide issue. As he says on the SWR television network, there were not even derogatory comments on social media of the type “if you don’t like Germany, return to Italy” or “anyone who does not know numerical, must go back to school”.

However, the Italian restaurant says that 90% of his customers have no objection to paying Alla Romana and equal to his account. As for the rest, it does not deny strict splitting according to each person’s individual consumption, “it is enough to tell us from the beginning, to issue the accounts properly …”

Sources: DPA, SWR