Potato Assassin: Hotpot restaurants often sell potatoes, but some unscrupulous merchants will give less potatoes in expensive hot pot packages, or only provide a very small amount of potatoes. Some hot pot restaurants even cut potatoes into extremely thin slices to reduce costs, but they charge high prices.
Meat assassin: In hot pot, meat is one of the important ingredients. Some unscrupulous merchants will cheat on the quantity and quality of meat. For example, substitute low-quality meat for high-quality meat and raise the price, or provide a small amount of meat but charge a high price.
Seasoning assassin: The seasoning of hot pot is also very important, but some unscrupulous merchants will cheat on the quantity and type of seasoning. For example, providing less spices or not providing some necessary spices, but charging a high price.
Smoke assassin: In order to create a lively atmosphere, some hot pot restaurants will place hoods or ovens, but some unscrupulous merchants will use these machines to cover up the quantity and quality of food, making it difficult for customers to accurately evaluate the quality of food.
Jiepi assassin: The hygiene of hot pot restaurants is a concern of many consumers. In order to reduce costs, some unscrupulous merchants may ignore hygiene problems and let consumers eat in an unsanitary environment, thus bringing health risks to consumers.
These are some common "hot pot assassins". In order to pursue profits, these unscrupulous merchants use various means to deceive consumers. When eating, consumers should pay attention to the quantity and quality of food, know whether the price on the menu is reasonable, and pay attention to hygiene problems to protect their health and rights. At the same time, we should also strengthen supervision, reduce the existence of bad businesses and maintain the normal order of the market.
Seasoning fee, originally agreed, is per person 10 yuan, which is too expensive. You have to charge whether you use it or not.
Especially those drinks and snacks sold in hot pot are very expensive.
There are "ice cream assassins" on the Internet, and there is a wave of "beverage assassins" in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, which is magnificent and arouses heated discussion among consumers.
In recent days, Ms. He, who is in Ningbo, was dining in a hot pot restaurant with her friends and met a "beverage assassin". The waiter of the hot pot restaurant gave three people to Ms. He and her party. When recommending drinks, they gave three bottles of two products without telling the price of the drinks. At the time of settlement, three bottles of drinks are charged 177 yuan.
Ms. He feels very strange. She was surprised when she saw the charge receipt. She found that the total consumption expense quoted by the waiter had exceeded 1800 yuan, far higher than her expectation. She was surprised to find that mineral water charges 49 yuan/bottle, soda 79 yuan/bottle and three bottles of water 1.77 yuan.
When they first entered the store and sat down, the waiter recommended water to them, and did not explain the price. Ms. He thinks that hot pot restaurants deliver water for free in order to attract customers. Who knows that this kind of ordinary bottled mineral water and bubble water actually sold to sky-high prices.
As a result, Ms. He felt that they had been cheated by the hot pot restaurant. Without a clear price tag, she complained to the Consumer Protection Committee of Haishu District, Ningbo. Regarding the protection of consumers' rights and interests, investigation and evidence collection show that hot pot restaurants do not clearly price drinking water.
Relying on the Law on the Protection of Consumers' Personal Rights and Interests, all foods and drinks in hot pot restaurants must be clearly marked to consumers for their choice. Hot pot restaurants do have drinking water that is not clearly priced for consumers. Disappearing will appear in different areas, different people and different forms. I hope that consumers will always be vigilant and let these "assassins" have nowhere to go and nowhere to survive.