Setting the price of menu on its restaurant too expensive, this restaurant in Malaysia is fined RM 30,000

News24xx.com - Restaurant owners should not mess around when determining the menu price. If it too expensive, you might even be fined like the owner of this restaurant. Bad luck just happened to a restaurant owner in Sabahan, Malaysia. Reported by World of Buzz, September 8th 2018, he was fined RM 30,000 or 6 months in prison by a court.

The cause is arguably trivial, because the restaurant sold chocolate ice milk for RM 3.20 in 2016. Two years later, Judge Egusra Ali fined the restaurant owner Shihan Mohd Salim.

Shihan is fined ased on the Article 21 (5) concerning Price Control and Anti-Profiteer Actions in 2011. Prosecutors succeeded to fine him after Shihan failed to bring proof of chocolate ice sales receipt from January 2015 to March 2016.

In addition, Shihan also could not show the invoice for the purchase of chocolate ice making materials he bought. However, he managed to produce beverage price labels within seven working days, starting from May 9th, 2016.

Officials (KPDNHEP, Ministry of Domestic Trade and User Equality) explained that the price of chocolate ice Shihan sold, which was RM 3.20 in 2016, is considered too expensive by the customers at the time. A customer made a complaint on March 7, 2016. In the future, KPDNHEP hopes that restaurant owners can take lessons from this case. Especially so as not to set a menu price that does not make sense. KPDNHEP also advises consumers to report to them if they experience the same thing.

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