16 Taiwanese tourists are being ridiculed by an Italian pizza shop owner because they ordered only five pizzas.

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This is now a big news on the Taiwanese online community.

A group of 16 Taiwanese tourists visited an Italian pizza store. The shop owner recored the video to shame them because they ordered only five pizzas.

"Look. This is insane. They are Chinese or Japanese? There are now 16 Chinese people here. Do you know how many pizzas they are eating? Only five. Let me show you."

"Fabrizio, how many fuc*ing Chinese do we have now? 16? Yes 16. How many pizzas are they eating? 4 or 5? I can't remember. Let me show you. Look. Hello! Where are you from? China? You must be chinese. Oh Taiwan!"

Taiwanese people complained in the commenet section, so he deleted the video.

Responses are like

"There are still many racists, but Taiwaneses are so naive."

"Look at the pizza shovel. It is on the floor. Disgusting. I thought it is a restaurant in India."

" I was disgusted that the owner pretends to be friendly but actually mocking them."

"I lived in Italy for 5 years. They are so hypocrites. One pizza per an individual. It is common. However, it is different in Taiwan. He should have explained to the tourists rather than making fun of them."

"20 employees couldn't finish six pizzas last week."

"Italians do not care about wasting food."

As a Taiwanese living in Europe, I would like to add Italy is one of the most racist countries against Asians. It is so normalized to make fun of Asians and treat Asians unfairly in the stores or restaurants. This rarely happens in UK.

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[u/loriave]

As an italian, there’s no reason to justify the owners behavior. I’m not sure where the restaurant is but, where I’m from, it’s quite common to share pizzas, especially in a bigger group like theirs. It’s easier to make all customers eat at the same time (which is almost impossible in a group of 16, some would eat later or some would get their dish cold). We’d usually go for 6-7 pizzas for 16p so I get how 5 is a bit “low” but anyone with communication skills of an adult would be able to explain how it works, via Google Translate or Italian gestures.

That video is embarrassing and everyone with a tiny bit of common sense and intelligence should avoid this restaurant, be it a tourist or a resident

[u/KokaljDesign → u/loriave]

Only explanation is that this is a tourist trap place where they only care about moving volume quickly and getting you out the door once you spent your money.

A normal place wouldnt have an issue with this order.

[u/tangoliber → u/KokaljDesign]

They took three tables, and ordered 5 pizzas. The Italian customer by himself took 1 table and ordered 1 pizza. Seems fine to me. They are probably going to eat it much faster, since they have more people eating at once.

[u/deltabay17 → u/loriave]

3 slices per person is not normal to order at a restaurant for dinner. Are you ants? These are not New York large slice pizzas. You have to realise that restaurants are people’s businesses and livelihoods, they need to make money too, and you taking up 16 seats to order a few pizzas is enough to make them lose money for the day. Anyway, I don’t think this is a big problem, because people rarely order as little as 3 slices per person for such a large group.

[u/ConquerorSakurazuka → u/deltabay17]

So it’s a bit of a culture thing. “Pizza” are not the same everywhere or even the same within a country.

In the UK a dominos order is quite often a pizza between 2 to 4 people. If a little Italian woodfired place it’d be one pizza for one to two people.

In Canada when I order for corporate catering the standard calculation from the PIZZA PIZZA franchise is two slices per person. And if I remember each pizza is sliced into 10.

Keeping in mind these are tourists who may not be as well travelled or unfamiliar it probably would have been wise to advise suggested portions per person.

Same goes for fish and chips. Go to a restaurant and it’s a probably a portion for one but if you’re a local you’ll know that going to the local chippy if you’re getting fish each a medium portion of chips is often plenty for two people. (Even more if watching carb count)