Mogambo dukhi hua! People 'boycott' eatery for refusing to serve driver

A popular Kolkata restaurant, 'Mocambo', is slammed on social media platforms for alleged class discrimination after Facebook post by woman claiming the eatery refused to serve her driver goes viral

Clothes maketh the man or man maketh the clothes? Well, people have been looking for an answer to this question from time immemorial.

And for the 'posh' 'Mocambo' restaurant in Kolkata's Park Street area the answer to the question is 'clothes are more important than the man'.

Now, Park Street is a famous thoroughfare in Kolkata with several fine dining restaurants doting the location with Mocambo being one of the oldest joints there.

According to one Dilashi Hemnani, who posted the entire incident on Facebook, she went to the 'Mocambo' restaurant for dinner with her driver on Friday. According to Hemnani, who is a marketing manager at Tata Motors, the incident took place on September 9 at around 8:40pm. According to the post, the driver, Manish Bhaiya, had missed his lunch that day and she decided to take him to dinner with her. 

On reaching the location, she was first given a waiting period of 15 minutes for a table for two, but htat changed to 45 minutes and then was told that she wouldn't be allowed inside because of the person she had come with. Once she understood  that the wait for deliberate, she charged the management. She reported that the staff said, "Ma'am we can’t give you a table”, subtly pointing at the driver.

Her post — shared on September 10 — has gone viral and created a furore on social media platforms, with people slamming the restaurant. Hemnani's Facebook post has been shared over 14,677 times since. It was even being shared on WhatsApp.

HERE'S HOW PEOPLE RESPONDED ON FACEBOOK:

HERE'S HOW TWITTERATI REACTED:

@anaggh Mocambo khush huaa

— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) September 12, 2016

Even Mogambo will not be happy with #Mocambo & will send dozens of rats 4 fine dining at this roadsider restaurant

— Raaisaab (@raaisaab) September 12, 2016

Disgusting. Mocambo Kolkata. Angrez chale gaye, inhein chod gaye. https://t.co/XKbquX4biX

— Kshitij Salve (@JaisiAapkiMasti) September 12, 2016

So #Mocambo is a place not to be ever! huh?https://t.co/nH069wtNtC

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Is this what happening in my city of joy!!! What a shame.. https://t.co/1XysvcFnQc

— Paoli Dam (@paoli_d) September 12, 2016

Never been to Mocambo! mainly because Kolkata has way too many street food joints for Street-people like me and didnt know anyone to take me

— P B (@PBnrg) September 12, 2016

In the land of Durga, demons proliferate
She was paying for dinner NOT stealing#SpreadTheWord #Mocambo is evil.https://t.co/FAMaI4jd2i

— Ridhima Singh Rana (@Ri_Ra07) September 12, 2016

Few of these park street restaurants have a place in the world of "Fine Dinning". Its right at the bottom.#Mocambo https://t.co/g7XqKabC5t

— Shaheb Bhattacherjee (@shaheb17) September 12, 2016

Oh, I hope they don't shut down Mocambo before I next visit Kolkata!

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#Mocambo When you act like this,believe me the smell of food will seem stinking too.Wipe your brains with brooms,if at all it gets cleared!u00f0u009fu0091u008e

— Kamalika Basu (@KamalikaBasu) September 12, 2016

That's what #Mocambo restaurant in Kolkata did not to allow a driver accompanying a guest to dine being low std. #ClothesDefineCharacter

— Fly High (@CreationsbyI) September 12, 2016

Wow. Obnoxious behaviour by Mocambo Kolkata. Please do give them a poor rating on whichever forum you can. https://t.co/L7kfpyLoMI

— Debayan Sen (@debayansen) September 12, 2016

apparently mocambo turned away a driver bec he wasn't dressed to their standards.

apparently, mocambo still has standards. lol.

— Gigi Garcia (@mycrotchetyluv) September 12, 2016

really shameful, A well known restaurant Mocambo deny to enter a woman bcoz she has cm wth his driver..u00f0u009fu0091u008e
ppl shud boycott this racist rest.

— NEVER MIND (@jayashreebhatt) September 12, 2016

This #Mocambo incident is a shame!since when have colonial ghosts taken over & replaced them with classist souls?! #Kolkata #notMYkolkata

— Damayanti (@Ch0tpot3) September 12, 2016

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