La Gauloise restaurant

Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
comes as individual prices, at about 20% more. The restaurant guy
babbles on in French with some incomprehensible explanation. At this
point, after some wine; you just give up; get angry, pay the bill, and
go home and post a message to the Internet. Obviously not the first
time they have pulled this trick.

Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?

wrote:

Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
comes as individual prices, at about 20% more.

Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?

Whatever happened to learning enough French to order off the French
menu and understand what is explained to you?
--
dgs

On 18 Apr, 22:51, wrote:
Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
comes as individual prices, at about 20% more. The restaurant guy
babbles on in French with some incomprehensible explanation. At this
point, after some wine; you just give up; get angry, pay the bill, and
go home and post a message to the Internet. Obviously not the first
time they have pulled this trick.

Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?

Watch out, around here they may ask you for a scan of the restaurant
bill, in order to believe your story.

"dgs" wrote in message
...
wrote:

Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
comes as individual prices, at about 20% more.

Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?

Whatever happened to learning enough French to order off the French
menu and understand what is explained to you?
--
dgs

Sigh.....

So just because someone doesn't speak the language, it's open season to rip
them off?

I've taken the care to learn the basics of language in many countries....but
when someone fires unfamilar words at you rapidly, you've got jet lag, and
it's been a long, over stimulated day (even if fun), it can be confusing. We
shouldn't expect that an establishment in the hospitality business should
TRY to be hospitable to customers?

I don't know anything about this restaurant, but I do understand why some
people get totally ****ed off and avoid this news group.

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:19:36 -0700, dgs wrote:

wrote:

Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
comes as individual prices, at about 20% more.

Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?

Whatever happened to learning enough French to order off the French
menu and understand what is explained to you?

or using the services of somebody like Mixi?


There isn't anyone like Mixi. He is truly unique. And if one were to hire
Mixi then of course he would be able to translate the McDonalds menus with
alacrity.
--

JohnT

On 18 Apr, 22:51, wrote:
Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
comes as individual prices, at about 20% more. The restaurant guy
babbles on in French with some incomprehensible explanation. At this
point, after some wine; you just give up; get angry, pay the bill, and
go home and post a message to the Internet. Obviously not the first
time they have pulled this trick.

Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?

which country was this ??

On Apr 19, 4:47 am, "Sarah Banick" wrote:
"dgs" wrote in message

...

wrote:

Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
comes as individual prices, at about 20% more.

Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?

Whatever happened to learning enough French to order off the French
menu and understand what is explained to you?
--
dgs

Sigh.....

So just because someone doesn't speak the language, it's open season to rip
them off?

Maybe they weren't ripped off. Maybe there was a perfectly honest
explanation of what happened, that the OP did not understand. Hard to
be sure without more information.

B;

On 19 Apr, 11:55, Martin wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:52:22 +0200, Martin wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:40:59 +0200, Magda wrote:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:33:31 -0700 (PDT), in rec.travel.europe, wearethecheekygirls
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On 18 Apr, 22:51, wrote:
... Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
... an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
... Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
... comes as individual prices, at about 20% more. The restaurant guy
... babbles on in French with some incomprehensible explanation. At this
... point, after some wine; you just give up; get angry, pay the bill, and
... go home and post a message to the Internet. Obviously not the first
... time they have pulled this trick.
...
... Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?
...
... which country was this ??

Avenue de la Motte-Piquet... Hmmm... China? South Africa? Iceland?

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2004/105744

http://trustedplaces.com/review/fran.../1e86m5f/la-ga...
--

Martin

http://reading.gumtree.com/reading/20/21443420.html

Mister B wrote:

On Apr 19, 4:47 am, "Sarah Banick" wrote:
"dgs" wrote in message

...

wrote:

Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
comes as individual prices, at about 20% more.

Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?

Whatever happened to learning enough French to order off the French
menu and understand what is explained to you?
--
dgs

Sigh.....

So just because someone doesn't speak the language, it's open season to rip
them off?

Maybe they weren't ripped off. Maybe there was a perfectly honest
explanation of what happened, that the OP did not understand. Hard to
be sure without more information.

The receipt would be helpful, but generally, when people want to
exaggerate stories, they don't provide them. I'd have thought that if
the situation was exactly as described, that it would be illegal?

That said, it's not unusual obviously for menus to be completely
different for the same restaurant depending on the language. We ask for
certain dishes we like in Chinatown here in Manchester which are
generally not on the english menu. I don't think this is
surreptitiousness on the part of the owners- probably just that there
isn't much demand for those items from non-Chinese speakers, so no point
putting it on the menu. If the prices were different however- trading
standards could be involved.

I noticed that dishes with "pferd" in a restaurant in Cologne were not
included on the English menu for that restaurant...

--
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(email address on website) "If people think God is interesting, the
onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

On 19 Apr, 11:40, Magda wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:33:31 -0700 (PDT), in rec.travel.europe, wearethecheekygirls
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On 18 Apr, 22:51, wrote:
... Beware the scam at this place on Avenue La Motte-Piquet. There is both
... an English and a French menu. They both feature a prix fixe menu of 25
... Euros. If you order the prix fixe meal off the English menu, the bill
... comes as individual prices, at about 20% more. The restaurant guy
... babbles on in French with some incomprehensible explanation. At this
... point, after some wine; you just give up; get angry, pay the bill, and
... go home and post a message to the Internet. Obviously not the first
... time they have pulled this trick.
...
... Whatever happened to honesty and integrity?
...
... which country was this ??

Avenue de la Motte-Piquet... Hmmm... China? South Africa? Iceland?

=====
It sounds much better in French, but then, everything does.

encore.....Suisse ? Belgique ? Corse ?