Posted on 10/27/2019 4:13:31 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
An exclusive restaurant in Lima, Peru, has been fined over $60,000 for its practice of giving men and women different menus.
La Rosa Nautica, a popular gourmet restaurant overlooking the Pacific Ocean, provides women with a gold menu without prices while giving men a blue one with the cost details.
The Associated Press reported that La Rosa Nautica defended the tradition during legal proceedings.
The restaurant’s owners argued that their menus without prices “extoll the position of women, considering it a pleasure for them to enjoy a romantic evening with their partner, without taking into account the cost of the services.”
The National Institute for the Defense of Free Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property did not see it that way, according to Fox News.
The agency determined in a 3-2 ruling that women should have “access to the same list of dishes with prices included.”
La Rosa Nautica was hit with a $62,000 fine and directed to start giving both men and women menus with the prices on them.
Additionally, the agency is requiring the restaurant to post a sign “clearly stating that discrimination will not be tolerated,” according to the AP.
“These small things may seem harmless,” agency official Liliana Cerrón said on Monday. “But at the end of the day they are the basis of a chauvinistic construct reinforcing differences between men and women.”
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Time Magazine reported in 1980 that when a woman wanted to treat her male business partner to dinner at the exclusive restaurant, she ran into some trouble.
Her menu had no prices on it and when she learned why, the couple decided to leave without eating.
They then filed a lawsuit, citing California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act.
They asked for damages and a permanent injunction against the practice.
According to Eater Los Angeles, all ended well with the restaurant agreeing to put away its different male and female menus.
Just how is any self respecting gold-digger supposed to know what the most expensive item is on the menu so she can order it.
No self respecting gold-digger would order the second, never mind the sheer horror of ordering third most expensive meal on the menu.
It was a travesty and I am glad it has been addressed.
“Ladies’ Menus” used to be an unremarkable thing, decades ago.
Couldn’t the free market have handled this? No, but seriously, I know we can’t allow businesses and customers to make their own decisions: they might make the wrong ones!
George: Can I say one word to you? Lobster. The lobster here is unbelievable. (looks at the menu) Ooh, a little expensive.
Sasha: Twenty five dollars.
George: Yes, well, you know, I’m not thinking about the price. You know you’re the only woman I’ve never thought about the price. Get the lobster. I beg you to get the lobster. Go for the lobster.
Sasha: George, George, uh, I think we have to talk. I think we have a problem.
George: We do?
Sasha: We can’t keep seeing each other.
George: Why?
Sasha: (crying) Because it’s over. *sob, sob, sob* It’s my parents, the differences in our religion. Oh George, can you ever forgive me?
*sob*
Waiter: Uh, have you decided yet?
Sasha: (crying) Yes. I’ll have the lobster.
George: Um, you know I’m starting to think that maybe lobster isn’t the way to go.
Makes millennial “Dutch” dates too hard for the poor woman to boot. ;-)
(I can mock this in so many ways.)
I’m sure Peruvian Millennials have plenty of other dining options, although they could have decided to patronize La Rosa Nautica ironically. One person could pay the bill (flip a coin?), and the other could Venmo 50% to the one who paid.
I’ll bet they would still under-tip, though. They claim they can’t figure 15% in their heads, but it can’t be random that they always come up short.
First, via TripAdvisor, La Rosa Nautica is only rated as number #132 out of the 3,000 restaurants in the Lima region. So it’s hard to say it’s so ‘fine’ to be considered luxury.
Second, if you read through the first 20 reviews on TripAdvisor, a number say it in a blunt way...it’s romantic, but the food just isn’t the high of quality that you can find in various other restaurants in the city.
Third, if you went and asked most women about what drives the choice of a restaurant...the bulk will say the romance factor, or the friendly nature of the staff. Most guys will tell you that the food on the menu, the quality of the food, and the pricing are the factors for picking a restaurant.
Finally, I will offer this opinion...being sixty and having eaten at 3,000 restaurants/cafes in my life (in the US, Australia, New Zealand, and throughout Europe)...the best food I ever ate was a mom-and-pop Italian shop, for less than 8-bucks. It was a hole-in-the-wall entry...way off the main street, with a ceiling fan blowing hot air around, and barely ten tables in the whole place, and all the Italian women running it were a minimum of sixty years old.
Amazing that some self important “civil servants” can charge 60 thousand dollars in fines over a menu in a free country.
Fascist much?
City councils always want more money. Somebody has a baby-mama who needs a nice government job staying at home and not calling my wife, please.
Really? You know different women than I do.
Pah! If it were truly a luxury restaurant the prices wouldn’t be listed in any of the menus. If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it.
Coming soon: 1/2 portion of jalapeno poppers @ $65,000.00.
"Luxury" means cost, not taste.
However, being in the top 5% of rated restaurants isn't chopped liver. Maybe the big draw is the view or the decor.
LOL!
At least she admits it.
To be truely high end you have to have stuff like “Iberian goat *concha **fromage mousse.”
*Part of the outer ear canal
**Cheese
Oh and they have to start you out with “A Moose Bush”
I can understand why a woman bites a camel’s testicles after it sits on her after she runs into the camel’s enclosure after her deaf dog*, but eating a Moose bush? Never got that.
If it is done just as a goof when they see a couple come in, then it isnt a big deal. It’s like if they gave the food items in each menu a different funny name (e.g. her menu calls it the “He’s Paying Steak” and he will have the “3rd Base Wings”).
Obviously with both menus there, they will both know the cost of stuff if it becomes an issue. And if a woman was eating along, they are obviously going to give her a menu with prices.
I looked up this Lima place....it’s on the beach, overlooking the ocean. Scenic? Maxed out at ten.
Maybe the cycles of civilization are inevitable: ascendancy, abundance, decadence, dark age, ascendency, abundance, decadence, dark age, ascendency, etc.
William Faulkner laid it all out beautifully in Absalom! Absalom!.
Edward Gibbon did it even more beautifully and in great detail: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
It's an old, old story.
The morons never learn. They can't. They're morons.
Funny thing about morons: they think they're intelligent. There are millions in America today. They vote Democrat and believe the propaganda blaring from the "news" outlets. They don't know they're morons. Don't bother to try to tell them. They can't understand.
Apparently Peru's full of morons too. It's probably a certain percentage of any human population. Maybe that's why civilization is cyclic. If it were not for the morons, perhaps civilizations could stay permanently in the age of abundance.
There's nothing fun about a dark age. Recent years have shown that there's not much fun in the decadent period either, at least not for the cognoscenti. We who lived through America's age of abundance are lucky--the luckiest people in history. Thank God for that blessing!
Not a surprise. Lima is in a good location for views.
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