Italian food chain in UK in a fix: 30000 napkins get stolen every month

London : United Kingdom | Oct 15, 2012 at 11:52 PM PDT

By prabirghose

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37-year old Jamie Oliver has a genuine problem – customers drop in at one of his 30 Italian food outlets and take away his napkins and he has to replenish nearly 30000 of napkins every month.

This has been reported in telegraph.co.uk of dated 16th of October 2012.

And not only the napkins but also the ornamental fittings in the toilets and lavatories go missing regularly.

He has installed the old-fashioned Thomas Crapper toilets and, his customers take away bits and pieces as souvenirs – pieces like the handles and flushers.

In exasperation, he has now got these easily detachable items welded permanently to the main fittings.

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