The Italian city of Verona has put a ban on ethnic restaurants to protect its “typical culture.”
Verona has seen an explosion of kebab restaurants popping up in the city’s historic center. The aggressive development led officials to adopt a new ruling this week in which any new restaurants intending to sell certain “ethnic” food won’t be granted a license to operate.
“Thanks to this provision there will be no more openings of establishments that sell food prepared in a way that could impact the decorum of our city,” Verona Mayor Flavio Tosi said, according to The Telegraph. “This protects not only our historic and architectural patrimony of the city centre but also the tradition of typical culture of the Verona territory.”
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4 comments:
Great job Italy!
If I were to visit Verona, I would want to be surrounded by Italian culture - restaurants, food, architecture, language, art - not kabob joints or McDonald's. If it can't be that way, why visit?
Exactly!
Lol. Some real freedom loving constitutionalist commenting here. "Decrease regulation on small business...but only if you are the right ethnicity"
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