Video: Osteria da Luca in Venice: Italian owner, Chinese tenant, Egyptian manager
2024 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 12:26
We know that probably the novel of the bloody 1143 euro bill for 4 steaks, a fry and little else presented at the "da Luca" tavern in Venice during the Christmas period, plus a horror for the 4 Japanese students who had to pay it, will have a happy ending.
If they accept, the young people will be reimbursed the entire amount by the association of Venetian traders, while the Municipality has temporarily closed the place of the crime, which is also required to pay a fine of 20 thousand euros imposed by the traffic police and the other fines of Nas and Ulss.
The moral is clear: punish those who have exaggerated to warn everyone, given that Venice is anything but new to cases of this kind.
Il Gazzettino, meanwhile, tells other background of the story. Behind the infamous "da Luca" tavern there is a property and rental tour involving three people, whose identity the Venetian newspaper today reveals.
Kazi Babar is the Egyptian manager of the tavern who presented the bill, and who in turn has to pay 20 thousand euros each month to the Chinese Zeng Chegyi for the subletting of the restaurant, and there is the owner of the tavern from Luca”, Franco Rendich, who rents the property to the Chinese at the price of 12 thousand euros per month.
Eighty-six, a former Sanskrit professor at Ca 'Foscari University, the 100 meters of the venue (50 on the ground floor and 50 on the upper floor) are his.
He declares himself oblivious to everything: he does not know his tenant and does not know how he manages his business. “He pays regularly and that's enough for me”, he told Gazzettino, “but there aren't many, I could have asked for a raise”. The former teacher is not wrong, because in the Mercerie area, near Piazza San Marco, prices are even higher.
Also noteworthy is the decision of TripAdvisor, which put a stop to the flood of negative reviews on the tavern "da Luca", targeted by many who have never been to the place, but who feel the need to have their say.
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