Are you able to carry meals into the seaside institutions? Dona explains what to do if there’s a ban –

Each summer time the dilemma arises once more: are you able to carry your personal meals to the seaside, even in institutions that expressly prohibit doing so? The query is answered by Massimiliano Dona, president of the Nationwide Shoppers Union. In a video revealed on his Instagram channel, the lawyer and journalist explains that the issue doesn’t come up on the free seaside, however we should not neglect the principles of civil life and mutual respect: “You may definitely carry your personal meals however do not occupy desk the area that should be usable by everybody”. Nevertheless, the state of affairs inside bathing institutions is far more complicated.

“Managers typically attempt to prohibit entry with meals by inserting indicators” that prohibit bringing in meals introduced from house, explains Dona. It may be accomplished? “The indicators are fully unlawful as a result of nothing can forestall those that are prospects of an institution from getting into with their bottle of water, their sandwich, their salad or their chilly pasta”, explains the skilled. Right here too, nevertheless, there are limits. “It is a totally different factor to carry massive coolers – explains Dona – it is clear that the supervisor of a seaside institution who sees a household getting into with 4 cumbersome objects in coolers may make a fuss”, additionally as a result of they’ll create problems for circulation beneath the umbrellas, says the skilled. Having stated that, “the ban on bringing in meals is illegitimate and the institution can not drive the usage of its bar and restaurant”, however the recommendation is obvious: “Let’s not exaggerate, setting the desk beneath the sunbeds and having a mid-August type desk must be prevented …”.