A blogger slammed a restaurant in Milan for handing menus with out costs to girls, saying it was sexist.
Agustina Gandolfo, 25, is the girlfriend of Argentinian footballer Lautaro Martínez, who at the moment performs for Inter Milan and relies within the metropolis.
The life-style blogger made headlines this week by claiming a Milanese restaurant had handed her a menu that did not have any costs on throughout a romantic meal along with her beau.
She claimed on her Instagram story that the apply is sexist as a result of it assumes the person goes to pay for the meal, not the lady.
Agustina Gandolfo, 25, the girlfriend of Argentinian footballer Lautaro Martínez, pictured, slammed s Milanese restaurant after it handed her a menu with out costs
Whereas she stored the title of the institution to herself, Agustina, who shares a daughter with Lautaro, claimed that different upmarket eating places in Milan do the identical.
‘Do you know that in quite a few eating places in Italy they don’t put costs on the menus that they provide to girls?’ she requested in her story.
She shared an image of the menu she was handed, which listed luxurious meals, however no matching costs.
She mentioned she was outraged by the transfer, asking: ‘What if I wished to pay?’
The blogger shared a photos of the menu, which listed the meals however not the costs, pictured, on her Instagram story
After posting her preliminary story, the mannequin and mother-of-one mentioned many Italian folks had come again to her to clarify solely high-end eating places use blind menus.
‘The worst factor is that they justify this by saying it solely occurs in eating places of a sure degree. So does that imply girls can’t pay if we’re speaking a few costlier meal?’ she went on.
Folks on social media have mentioned that some Italian waiters are nonetheless advised to ask the person to style the wine even when the feminine visitor orders it, and to provide the invoice to the person, even when the lady has requested it, the Occasions reported.
Rossella Cerea, supervisor on the three Michelin-starred restaurant Da Vittorio, positioned close to Bergamo, mentioned she would not see what’s fallacious with the apply.
The mannequin mentioned she was ‘outraged’ by the transfer, saying it implies girls cannot pay for costly meals
The mother-of-one, who relies in Milan, the place Lautero, proper, works, was advised solely excessive finish eating places hand out blind menus
The mannequin, pictured, was shocked to seek out extra excessive finish eating places are giving girls blind menus
‘If there’s a couple at desk we’ve got the behavior of giving the blind menu to the lady. It’s not discrimination however a type of gallantry,’ she advised La Repubblica newspaper.
‘It’s solution to advise the lady to benefit from the dinner, the ambiance and the great meals with out worrying about extra banal issues,’ she went on.
In the meantime, the proprietor of the Pipero restaurant in Rome, Alessandro Pipero, mentioned he thought it was disrespectful to not present the costs to a feminine shopper.
‘We’re in 2021 and it’s not attainable to consider {that a} girl is not going to pay at a restaurant. And even when she doesn’t pay, why shouldn’t she know the costs of the meals? he mentioned.
‘I’m obliged by regulation to point out my costs outdoors, so what does that imply? A lady can learn them outdoors however not inside,’ he went on.
Agustina, pictured with Lautero, launched a debate it Italy over the need of blind menus in restaurant
Some agree with the mannequin, pictured, that handing blind menus to girls is outdated and will cease