Recently, a tourist said that he was taken to a restaurant by a taxi driver in Silver Beach, Beihai, Guangxi. He ordered 4 dishes and spent 1,500 yuan.
On the afternoon of January 27, a staff member of Beihai City 12345 told The Paper that relevant departments had already intervened in the investigation of the aforementioned situation.
The aforementioned tourists said in an interview with the media that the taxi driver asked them if they wanted to eat, and took them to a restaurant after getting close. After the dishes were prepared, the boss asked them to sign on the menu. More than 1500 yuan.
"After returning to the B&B, the owner of the B&B said that the price was too outrageous, and we felt very uncomfortable...not only the money was cheated, but also the sense of trust was cheated."
According to the menu, they ordered four dishes: spicy stir-fry with oil snails, steamed dragon top, horseshoe and imperial concubine spicy stir-fry, with a total price of 1,573 yuan.
The screenshot of the payment shows that the receiving merchant is the Overseas Chinese Harbor Seafood Processing City.
The Paper previously reported that the restaurant staff responded on January 27 that the dishes were clearly priced, and only when the guests signed to confirm that they made them, and that the goods were more expensive during the Chinese New Year.
Regarding the issue of allowing the driver to solicit customers, the store staff denied it.
He said that there are many people during the Spring Festival, so how do you know who pulled them over, "How many pairs of eyes are there to see?"
The store staff said that the tourists ordered two expensive dishes, one dragon top fish and one oil snail.
Oil snails are available in the market for 138 yuan per catty and sold for 168 yuan.
He also said that their scales were labeled by the Market Supervision Administration last year.
On the afternoon of the 27th, The Paper called the Beihai Municipal Market Supervision Administration and the Beihai Tourism, Culture and Sports Bureau several times. As of press time, no one answered.
The Paper noticed that the Haigang Seafood Processing City, an expatriate in Beihai City involved in the incident, had been complained about forced consumption and other issues.
According to the "12315 Consumer Complaint Information Announcement of Beihai Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau in the Fourth Quarter of 2021" released by the portal website of the Beihai Municipal People's Government, the merchant has accepted 5 complaints, and the main problems of the complaints are: high prices; Two; mandatory consumption.
In addition, on a comment app, as early as 2020, some users commented that they were fooled by the driver or "followed by the heat" in the past, and the price of the store was inflated, and they were short of catties.
The Paper reporter Zhu Xuan