An Italian restaurant has left a lady livid after she was charged for requesting an additional plate to make use of.

The posh eatery based mostly in Liguria, Italy, charged £1.70 for the empty plate after blogger Selvaggia Lucarelli requested for the dish to separate a pasta dish along with her daughter.

Listed on the receipt as "piattino condivisione", the merchandise translated into English means "sharing saucer".

The restaurant is situated within the unique vacation spot of Gulf of Genoa northern Italy - the place cowl fees are fairly frequent.

However, the shopper alerted holidaymakers because the payment got here on prime of the quilt cost.

The whole cost got here to £6.48 amounting to the general price of the meal to £47.92.

Disgruntled Italian media slammed the restaurant for the cheeky worth saying: "They put 2 euros on her account for the saucer. By the way, having already factored in the cover charge."

The Governor of Liguria Giovanni Toti additionally weighed in towards the restaurant.

He fumed: "This extra charge is wrong to me."

Restaurant house owners responded to the row giving a surprising purpose for the astonishing cost.

They mentioned: "A table for three and they eat for one, then who does the dishes?"

Owner Ida Germano, 76 defined: "We made the lady who posted the receipt sit at a table for three because there were two adults and a child.

"They ordered just one plate of trofie with pesto and one in every of fried anchovies and so they requested for 2 saucers to share for each. So that they had 4 saucers in all, not one, and we solely charged for one as a result of we pay for the dishwasher and the dishwashing too."

Other customers shared their thoughts on social media.

A TripAdvisor user said: "Taking benefit of the situation to lift the costs of completely primary dishes is in unhealthy style."

This comes as one other Italian bar added a weird additional cost to clients for slicing their sandwiches in half.

The posh eatery at Italy's unique Lake Como sparked outrage after it revealed its new £1.70 slicing payment.