Em and I went to dinner last night in Palermo with her parents, Jim and Helen. Unfortunately we chose to go to Palermo. We had a bit of trouble finding and deciding on a place to eat, but we eventually did and were told there was a 15-20 minute wait. So we grabbed a beer and waited at the bar for a table.
While we were waiting this happened:
They were a bunch of restaurant and hospitality workers wanting a pay increase of 40%. It started out a little uncomfortable and noisy with them throwing flyers etc through the door, but the part i didn't film was later when they started kicking the door and hitting the windows with flashlights.
We eventually filed out the door, through the protest, without paying for our drinks at the bar. I think most of the people in the restaurant did the same thing for their meals. The restaurant would have lost a lot of money. Em made a joke later that we should have gone to the next restaurant and ordered some beers, then when we were booted out, the next one, staying one step ahead of the protesters and drinking for free.
Our restaurant wasn't the only one targeted. They seemed to be raiding all of them. Flyers were everywhere, showing where they'd been. We walked away from the protesters and past a restaurant we'd seen earlier which had a wet cement pavement out the front that had been roped off to stop people walking on it. The barriers were smashed and the ropes gone, and the cement full of footprints. We got into a cab, still hungry, and headed back to Recoleta for a late dinner. It wasn't the nicest way for Jim and Helen to say goodbye to Buenos Aires.
Read about it here:
Nueva protesta de los gastronómicos - La Nación
and a similar one in Las Cañitas:
Una ruidosa protesta de Gastronómicos modifica la rutina de Las Cañitas - El Clarin
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