The French restaurant lets customers smoke while it introduces fines for this common eating error – so are you guilty about it?

A restaurant owner in France Has chosen customers after he had introduced a new fine to ‘make people responsible’ for a common dining jacket that many have probably been guilty of.

Olivier Vincent, chef and manager of at l’îlot, a eatery with 20 seats in Amboise, was increasingly frustrated with customers who constantly arrived with parties who either surpassed or short of the number of people they had booked.

Dissatisfied by what he described as a ‘weekly’ problem, the chef announced that those who appear with a group of a different size would be fined.

Message Facebook Last week he stated that those who do not comply with the rule would charge € 15 (£ 12.75) per head.

On Wednesday he wrote: ‘The Restaurant L’îlot announces a change. From now on, if you do not come up with the number of guests for which you have reserved, you will be charged 15 euros per missing or extra person. Thank you for your understanding. ‘

“We are here because we have to make people responsible,” he complained.

According to the new rules, a group of nine with two no-shows would be confronted with a surcharge of € 30 in addition to the bill for their food and drink.

According to the chef, the problem was underway, but reached the last drop after a customer had exchanged different messages to change the booking, the French newspaper reported, ICI.

A restaurant owner in France has chosen customers after he had introduced a new fine to ‘make people responsible’ for a common eating habit

The Facebook message was: ‘The Restaurant L’îlot announces a change. From now on, if you do not come up with the number of guests for which you have booked, you will be charged 15 euros per missing or extra person. Thank you for your understanding ‘

“After about ten e -mails with one person, she told us that there would be eight, then nine, and eventually they came without warning at seven o’clock,” Olivier said the outlet.

Vincent expressed his frustration and emphasized the need to have the correct figures on a booking, and dringing to customers who have ‘their phones on them 24/7’ only needs to say whether we will be less or more, or if we will not come ‘.

‘If we are here, it’s to work. It is not tables not to have customers. We organize ourselves so that everything is serene. We have staff, “he went on.

‘We work with fresh products. We do not pay employees and suppliers with monopolist tickets. My restaurant is a company. ‘

The location, described on Google as serving ‘inventive gourmet plates’ in a ‘sober restaurant with an open kitchen’, has a respectable 4.7 stars on assessment sites.

Customers have praised the ‘intimate’ setting, a function that Vincent emphasized is one of the reasons why it should strictly stick to the booking numbers.

Responding to the Facebook post, which was viewed more than 27,000 times in the first 24 hours, several expressed their irritation on the new rules.

A translated reaction from one reading: ‘A bit of a limiting business practice if only one or two people miss in a large table. Emergency situations.

Olivier Vincent, chef and manager of at l’îlot, a eatery with 20 seats in Amboise, Central France, was increasingly frustrated with customers who constantly arrived with parties who either surpassed or shortage the number of people they had booked for,

Respond to the Facebook message, which was viewed more than 27,000 times in the first 24 hours, several expressed their irritation on the new rules

‘You don’t get a great publicity for yourself. Even if there is abuse, you go a little far. Imagine a doctor for the call who cannot become a member of their family for dinner, or someone who has an emergency. ‘

A second furious wrote: ‘A last-minute unforeseen event … staying behind the restaurant (it happened to me earlier) … well, I might as well go somewhere else. It seems pretty counterproductive to me. ‘

“Continue like this, restaurant owners in France … And soon your customers will just not come anymore … By the way, why go to a restaurant in France to pay an exorbitant price for something that is not good,” another said.

Although some people were sharp that it was a matter of ‘respect’ to call restaurants to let them know about a changed booking.

‘I totally agree with you! It takes 2 minutes to inform someone of a change, “wrote one, while the other agreed and said that people were not aware of the hassle for the chef who prepares the meals.”

It is common for restaurants in France to charge customers who do not arrive at all for their bookings, but L’îlot is one of the first to be fine for unannounced changes in party size.

MailOnline has contacted L’îlot for comment.