Pay for an hour, eat what you want: the first “timed” tavern is born in Bologna

It is not a fast food and much less a restaurant ‘All you can eat‘. Vâgh íñ ufézzí It is the first timed tavern. A place, in the center of Bologna, where time becomes money. To overcome the limitations imposed by the Coronavirus to the world of catering, as quiet and spaced places, Mirco carati me Antonella De Sanctis They decided to take inspiration from the old Bolognese tradition. As he says Francesco Guccini in his last autobiographical book, en via del Pratello at the end of the Second World War, he opened The Ghitton: the cook only served pasta and beans and was paid by time, like “Ten minutes of pasta and beans, thank you! “In fact, each diner had to specify how many minutes they would eat and the bowl would fill accordingly.

“We wanted give value to time spent at the table, which in recent months has become very precious for those who run a small place like ours. We can accommodate maximum 12 persons. The stay at the table therefore goes more strictly regulatedWithout affecting the experience and our cuisine, we have decided to try an undoubtedly original way that will allow more people with the same budget and the same quality to dine with us, reserving a time slot and consuming at will in that time frame ”, they explain the owners of Vâgh íñ ufézzí al fattoquotidiano.it.

From now on here you pay the bill according to the time you spend at the table: at the moment there is a change of one hour (what costs 18 euros without wine) or two hours (26 euros). During this time the customer can eat at will, with bis e tris. Dishes from Emilia-Romagna and more. The sound of an old bell will also mark the end of the hour, if the clock on the table is not enough. In recent months, a photo of a man sitting alone in a pub has gone viral Ireland with a pint of Guinness and an alarm clock placed on the table. The scene was immortalized by the owner of the restaurant, becoming a symbol of the change we are experiencing and the new rules of coexistence: in Ireland, in fact, you can only stay in a pub for one hour and forty-five minutes. While the Italian catering industry hopes to understand if the time factor will become a problem again – the windy early closure of activities at 11pm would be a hard blow for the sector – in Bologna there are those who have chosen to bet everything precisely on this .

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