Polite customers offered cheaper coffee by Spanish café owner

Disenchanted by rude customers, a café owner on Spain’s Costa Brava has introduced a novel incentive to encourage good manners by charging clients according to how polite they are.

A terse demand for “un café” will see guests charged five Euros (£4.20) for a cup of coffee by Marisel Valencia Madrid, the owner of the Restaurant Blau Grifeu in Llança.

Adding please - or por favor - brings the price down to  €3.50 (£2.94), the Local reported.  Somebody who tries that bit harder and greets the server with a friendly “Buenos días” will only be charged €1.30 (£1.09).

I put a sign in the window with the price system and it has made all the difference. People are now super polite in all matters and it has really improved daily life,” she said.

 “Yesterday some children even told their parents to say please, so it’s working!” she added.

With the café being in a tourist resort, the clientele is not only local but includes visitors from Britain, France and Germany.

Those using the café are given fair notice, with the variable prices displayed in the window.

It appears to have worked as nobody has had to pay five Euros since the changes were introduce. Some customers even say thank you as well.

A great way of teaching manners  - I wonder if this will be adopted at Ya Baba Rizks Emporium ?