Restaurants print menus for women with no prices

And other stories from the stranger side of life

A restaurant table

Some restaurants in Italy are handing women menus with no prices on the assumption that their male companions are paying the bill. Argentine influencer Agustina Gandolfo told her 875,000 Instagram followers that she was “indignant” when she was given a “blind menu” while out for dinner in Milan with her footballer partner. Managers in many expensive Italian restaurants assume that male diners will be picking up the tab and that only they should see the prices.

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