A café owner shared his disgust after a tourist allegedly insulted him and his wife before calling all Cornish authorities. people “inherently lazy…” Chris Dixon, who owns Holy Mackerel Café in Helford, near Helston, said the man became angry when they refused to serve him after he “demanded” food be served after the café closed. already closed his kitchen.
Chris told CornwallLive: “We closed the kitchen at 3pm and the man and his partner showed up. in just after asking for food. When we explained that the kitchen already closed, he started asking us so that everything he could see was prepared in bake behind us but it was for another client who It was already ordered it.
“When we refused to serve him, he got more and more annoyed before leaving. on crazy ranting about Cornwall people. He first asked me if I was Cornish and when I said no and asked him if I was, he scoffed and said absolutely not. Then he said that Cornish people so poor because they are too lazy to work and said Londoners like him to keep the Cornish alive.”
Read more:Padstow ‘stabbed’: teenager and man arrested in hospital after the incident in Tourist attraction in Cornwall
Chris added that while this incident made he is incredibly angry, it is, unfortunately, regular entry for his. He said that last summer was especially bad for them in terms of receiving verbal abuse from clients after the boom of tenure as result of quarantine.
“After the guy finished his crazy tirade on us, he cut his hair offhe said. “I couldn’t believe how rude he was us just will be different year of This is for us but we don’t want This is again. people come down to Cornwall expecting it to be open 24/7 but we are not Benidorm we are in Helford, who small village.
“We get insults from people at least once a week, but not like that bad like that person. I do not want one more repeat of this is too early in season.”
(Image: Holy Mackerel Cafe)
Chris said the whole situation made his “boiling blood” and decided post about it on the cafe’s Facebook page to alert other local businesses to the person. full post read: “By calling all Cornish businesses. This man abused us in cafe to-day barks that “all Cornish people are by nature lazy and that they need Londoners like even survive, without them we are nothing.”
“Tell him how you feel about it if he wants to eat or be served in your establishment seems to haunt Cornwall and should better treatment? We were closed and obviously not serving him.”
post was published over fifty times and reached a thousand of people who shared their dissatisfaction with the current situation. Another local pub said the man also verbally abused the staff there.
Christina Starr said: “This guy came to Shipbuilders today and my daughter served him. he is late for dinner and said, “That’s why Cornwall is so poor.” Go back in London.”
.
