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Tourists robbed by Sanya seafood restaurants
By Zhang Xuanchen |
January 17, 2011, Monday
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AUTHORITIES in Sanya City, a beach resort in southern Hainan Province are cracking down on seafood restaurants for ripping off tourists unscrupulously.
The move followed the media exposure of a stunningly high bill from a seafood restaurant in Sanya, which charged a tourist group of 23 people 27,000 yuan (US$4,095) for some common dishes of prawns, squid, fish, eggs and a mud crab last month, Xinhua reported today.
The customers refused to pay the bill even after the restaurant, Tingchao Renjia Seafood Plaza, agreed to give them a 40 percent discount. The two sides finally agreed on a payment of 10,000 yuan after the city's industrial and commercial bureau officials intervened.
The restaurant boss, Chen Dawei, admitted to overcharging, saying the five kilos of strings used to tie the crabs was included in the weight. Officials found most of the food sold by restaurants in the tourist area was twice as expensive as market prices.
But Chen insisted that they didn't force the customers to accept the price as they had shown the group their menu before taking their order.
The bureau this month revoked the license of the restaurant as investigation showed its mud crabs were not from the origin as the restaurant claimed.
The city's pricing bureau said a standard pricing system would be introduced to regulate the seafood market. Chen Jinbo, the bureau spokesman, said he expected the city's seafood prices would drop by an average of 25 percent.
The move followed the media exposure of a stunningly high bill from a seafood restaurant in Sanya, which charged a tourist group of 23 people 27,000 yuan (US$4,095) for some common dishes of prawns, squid, fish, eggs and a mud crab last month, Xinhua reported today.
The customers refused to pay the bill even after the restaurant, Tingchao Renjia Seafood Plaza, agreed to give them a 40 percent discount. The two sides finally agreed on a payment of 10,000 yuan after the city's industrial and commercial bureau officials intervened.
The restaurant boss, Chen Dawei, admitted to overcharging, saying the five kilos of strings used to tie the crabs was included in the weight. Officials found most of the food sold by restaurants in the tourist area was twice as expensive as market prices.
But Chen insisted that they didn't force the customers to accept the price as they had shown the group their menu before taking their order.
The bureau this month revoked the license of the restaurant as investigation showed its mud crabs were not from the origin as the restaurant claimed.
The city's pricing bureau said a standard pricing system would be introduced to regulate the seafood market. Chen Jinbo, the bureau spokesman, said he expected the city's seafood prices would drop by an average of 25 percent.
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