介绍:
If you are confident about your looks, why not try your luck at a free meal?
A restaurant in Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province, is giving a free meal everyday to customers according to their looks.
Customers have to have their faces scanned by a camera and are then judged by staff of a plastic surgery clinic who will pick the top five faces.
Each half hour, customers' photos are grouped together and the five with top marks in the group get a free meal each. The big billboard which reads 'Free meal for Good Looks' was forced to be removed by the city government amid heated discussions nationwide.
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Comments:
(Xu Qinduo)当一个人成了谜 (Dang yi ge ren cheng le mi) posted on Weibo,
I think this is an insult to human nature. You can't judge a person just by one's appearance. What the restaurant did has hurt a lot of people's dignity. It's immoral. No one has the right to judge one's looks or make indiscreet remarks or criticisms. Inner beauty is the most important character.
(Zhou Jingnan) Lily_ly commented on China Daily.com,
I found that both the plastic surgery hospital and the restaurant have launched such a wonderful promotion program for their customers. Each promotion should be supported if it doesn't violate the law. Good looking people can not only get free meals in this restaurant. They get free ones in their daily life anyway. If you are beautiful, you are loved by your surroundings.
(LY) Jing Pin Hui Long seems quite optimistic on Weibo.com,
Haha, does this mean that each time I go to the restaurant I will eat for free? I'm really worried about those who are not good-looking. Do they have to pay service fees?
Notes:
- In 2014, a restaurant in south-west China offered discounts for overweight male customers, but only offered the same deal to women if they were thin. Most Chinese social media users are amused by this latest gimmick, although a few voice their disapproval.
(Xu Qinduo) Xue He Xin, the owner of the restaurant said to 163.com,
"Now the billboard was removed and the government says it's against regulations and impairs the city's image. Well, I have to comply with the regulations, right? Although I've spent more than 20,000 in making the advertisement board. Yet the sales campaign will continue, just in another way. Maybe via Weibo and Wechat.
(Zhou Jingnan) Avysue said on iFeng.com,
I'd welcome it if this restaurant closed down quickly. In light of this statement, ugly people should all live a miserable life? People should change their attitude towards their perception on looks. We need right social values.
(Luo Yu) Pi Pa Tang posted on Tieba.baidu.com,
It is not the first time that a Chinese restaurant has made such offers to attract more customers. I've heard that big guys can get discounts in a Chongqing restaurant. I do shed doubt on the fairness of the scanner and I think it's sort of insulting. But the whole idea of the restaurant 'Free meal for good looks' is just fantastic. I will try one day. Not the scanner but the food.
