Belgian restaurant asks customers to help pay energy bills
STORY: This Belgian restaurant owner is asking
customers to help pay for rising energy costs
Location: Brussels
(Michel De Bloos, Restaurant owner)
"I realized that the extra cost of energy was roughly 100,000 euro and I knew that we have roughly 100,000 customers per month. So I said, OK, it's 1 euro per customer."
He says it's a temporary measure to help
his business survive the energy crisis
There is a pamphlet on each table
explaining the situation to customers
(Jerome Hauptman, Customer)
"If everyone starts putting the customer in a hard place, it's complicated for us too. So the government has to support us at the same time otherwise it's unfair if only the customer bears the burden of all these crises."
"It's a question of being dead or alive at the end of the crisis. But if the people don't want to pay. We don't make, you know, we don't argue on that."
