Bar customer pays for 'all the beers he could not order during lockdown'

Based upon the price charged of €2.50 for a caña (half-pint or 330ml glass), and the bar's having been shut for 36 days due to the 'stay at home' rule, at a rate of one beer a day, the customer calculated the loss suffered by the owners by his absence as €90 in total.

So he paid them this plus a €10 tip - €100 in total.

According to the Pili, owner of the bar Can Juli, and her brother Juli, the man – who was a regular before the shutdown – turned up there on the first day of reopening with a piece of paper showing his handwritten calculations.

He would tend to go to Can Juli two or three times a week for a beer and to read the bar copy of the daily newspaper, Pili says, and occasionally, she and her brother would give him a small free snack to go with his drink.

But they were not expecting to be paid for the beers they had been unable to sell him while they were forced to be closed.

“Every morning, thanks to things like this, it really makes you feel like going to work,” says a very grateful Pili.