Hellmann's promises to help a Spanish café owner after his restaurant was damaged by a customer.
The popular mayonnaise brand has issued a statement about his Instagram offer to pay the café repairs. The post came weeks after a customer reportedly started a fire at Cafetería Las Postas in Sevilla, Spain, simply because he did not get a mayonnaise with his order.
“Cafetaria LasaSas: we are sorry that we were not there. From now on you can count on us,” is the message about the Instagram account of Hellman Spain, which was translated from Spanish to English via Google Translate and shared earlier this month. “Let's ensure the repairs and ensure that your sandwiches will never get out of the mayonnaise again.”
The restaurant expressed his gratitude in the comments and replied: “Thank you very much @hellmanns_spain !! It's a pleasure to receive your help!”
On August 20, Cafetería Las Postas shared a video on Instagram of the restaurant that was set on fire during the operational hours, with staff at work.
Hellmann's says cafe in Spain can 'count' on them after offering to pay for cafe fire repairs (Getty/Istock)
“This afternoon we suffered an attack, in which a 'customer' who passed our café asked us for a few bags of mayonnaise for his sandwich,” the caption was. “When we told him we didn't have one, he went to the gas station to buy a bottle of gasoline, entered the building and set fire to.”
The company also noted that neither customers nor employees were injured by the fire. Only material assets had considerable damage.
However, the café said that it uploaded this video “so that these kinds of people are immediately punished and removed from our society, and that the full weight of the law falls on them.”
Café owner José Antonio Caballero explained that the customer set fire to the restaurant desk after he told a second time: “No mayonnaise, no ketchup.” The customer originally ordered two sandwiches and two beers before he asked for the mayonnaise.
“Imagine the fire that started,” he explained to the Spanish publication El Economista, as reported by Euro weekly news. “There were children for him, people spent the afternoon. It was huge.”
Caballero noted that after the fire the damage is expected to cost between € 7,000 and € 10,000, which is around $ 8,251 to $ 11,787.
According to Euro Weekly News, The customer who started the fire suffered from burns before he was stopped by bystanders in the cafe and was arrested. The Court of First Instance of Utrera, a civil court in Sevilla, ordered him in custody without bail.
