A Restaurant Has Refused a Person Their Basic Human Rights

A restaurant overseas has been sued because they wouldn't serve a woman water! 

Surely she won the lawsuit? Right?!

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Speaker 1: This is a podcast.

Speaker 2: Welcome to the podcast. As we serve up some exclusive

Speaker 2: content today, let's talk about restaurants. Let's talk about the

Speaker 2: dining game and some of the rules and regulations. This

Speaker 2: is an interesting one because a woman has taken a

Speaker 2: restaurant to court and filed a lawsuit because the restaurant

Speaker 2: wouldn't serve a tapwater.

Speaker 3: What is so? Can you just order normal water?

Speaker 2: Yes you can, sir, absolutely, at nine dollars a bottle.

Speaker 2: We have bottled water at the restaurant. Just some tapwater please, So.

Speaker 4: If you need to be hydrated, you need to pay

Speaker 4: for it.

Speaker 2: I'm so sorry. Once again, if I'll just remind you

Speaker 2: we don't do tapwater. We have a beautiful still option

Speaker 2: and of course our sparkling, but no tap water.

Speaker 3: Can I go around the room and guess who's still

Speaker 3: and or who's sparkling in this run?

Speaker 4: Well, that would mean you're being judging a judge.

Speaker 3: Whippers sparkling. Most times Tom's sparkling. I'm actually still, you're.

Speaker 2: Still gets a bit gassy on the on the bubbly.

Speaker 4: Do you know what I prefer still? My daughter, who's eleven,

Speaker 4: she prefers sparkling at.

Speaker 2: Home, we're heavy on the sparkling.

Speaker 4: You got one of those fancy taps.

Speaker 2: No, we don't have a zip tap. We just have

Speaker 2: one of those other machines. What are they caught again,

Speaker 2: We've got strings.

Speaker 1: I understand the idea of drinking bubbles all the time.

Speaker 4: They frystrate you properly.

Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's great for you. I mean,

Speaker 2: I don't actually know. But anyway, so this restaurant said, no,

Speaker 2: I will not serve your water. This woman's taken them

Speaker 2: to court and said, well, it's actually a fundamental right

Speaker 2: to have access to water at an establishment. If someone's hosting.

Speaker 4: You there, maybe you have to go and drink it

Speaker 4: out of the tab, go to the bathroom, do you know?

Speaker 1: Can I talk about that, because that's very interesting because

Speaker 1: in my heyday, guys, when I was part haying around

Speaker 1: the hot night.

Speaker 4: Spots in Sydney, No, not all these. It was more like.

Speaker 1: The Cross and the Cross, guys, and no not hugoes.

Speaker 1: Far less classy than that around there, though. Dances one

Speaker 1: of the places I would go to. If we were

Speaker 1: dancing up a storm, you would go into the toilets

Speaker 1: and they had taken the cold water taps off so

Speaker 1: you couldn't.

Speaker 4: They didn't be illegal.

Speaker 1: These days, but you could not go to the toilet

Speaker 1: and have a drink because sometimes from all the dancing

Speaker 1: you were really thirsty.

Speaker 2: So you had to buy bottled water.

Speaker 4: Yeah, you had to go to the.

Speaker 2: Bar, get what stuffed?

Speaker 3: Didn't I isn't it in ib Ether it's four to

Speaker 3: a bucks for a bottle of water at a nightclub

Speaker 3: as well.

Speaker 4: I would more and the rest.

Speaker 3: But I don't think they're drinking too much booze over there.

Speaker 3: That's the thing though, So they're going to make their

Speaker 3: money from the water.

Speaker 2: He's another one that's interesting, and this is it's been

Speaker 2: in New South Wales for a while and now it's

Speaker 2: just seeped into Melbourne that restaurants charge an extra fifteen percent,

Speaker 2: like they have a fixed fifteen percent on top of

Speaker 2: whatever you order for a table of six or more people.

Speaker 2: What I don't know why? How can you justify it?

Speaker 2: What are you doing to warrant a greater expense to

Speaker 2: your table? I would have thought it was convenient for

Speaker 2: a restaurant to be able to go, well, there's six

Speaker 2: people in the one spot. You were having your direct

Speaker 2: contact with your waiter.

Speaker 1: Does that mean you have to employ more staff though,

Speaker 1: because if you just had people two to two two two,

Speaker 1: the pressure to only plate two plates.

Speaker 4: No less people. No, but you're plating.

Speaker 1: Everything has to be plated at the same time and

Speaker 1: go to the table at the same time depending on

Speaker 1: where you're eating. But if you've got a table of twelve,

Speaker 1: then ultimately there needs to be more hands on deck

Speaker 1: to make sure.

Speaker 2: You know. That's the rule kicks in at six.

Speaker 3: What's the five bombs charge in Melbourne?

Speaker 2: The fire bomb? I think you get one free with

Speaker 2: every dessert.

Speaker 4: And bottled water.

Speaker 3: There's a fair few of those going on. Is that

Speaker 3: a tobacco thing or is that an.

Speaker 2: Alcohol and that's an alcohol alcohol thing. That's the distribution

Speaker 2: and alcohol company battle that's going on. But you know,

Speaker 2: I just dropped your machetes in the bend. They worked

Speaker 2: well and salute to Melbourne you're doing well.

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