How are the two seafood restaurants punished for tampering with the fair scale?

The restaurants that were punished were Sanya Phoenix Qiaoyuan Seafood Restaurant and Sanya Phoenix Xincheng Fisherman Restaurant. Previously, tourists reported that merchants were short-changing and cheating customers. Subsequently, an unannounced investigation by the Sanya City Tourism Police found that two seafood restaurants had tampered with the fair scale of seafood.

One kilogram is two pounds. Sanya Phoenix Qiaoyuan Seafood Restaurant, when setting the electronic scale to convert kilograms and market pounds, pressed "2" to "2.8", resulting in each market pound of seafood being weighed out. The weight is 4 taels more than the actual weight. On the night of the incident, the customer ordered 4 seafood dishes. The stated weight was two kilograms more than the actual weight, and he was overcharged 179.2 yuan.

The owner of Sanya Phoenix Xincheng Fisherman’s Restaurant also took advantage of tourists not paying attention and pressed "2" into "2.6" on the electronic scale. The weight of each kilogram of seafood was 3 times higher than the actual weight. two. On the night of the incident, *** overcharged the customer 238 yuan.

According to the provisions of the "Measures for Punishing Behaviors that Infringe on Consumer Rights" and the "Consumer Rights Protection Law of the People's Republic of China", the Sanya Municipal Administration of Industry and Commerce made an administrative decision to revoke the business licenses of two seafood restaurants. punishment. In accordance with the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China and the People's Republic of China", the Sanya Tourism Police Detachment imposed an administrative detention of 15 days on the owners of two hotels, a fine of 1,000 yuan, confiscated illegal income, and administrative detention of 15 days on the weighing staff. day.

In addition, the Sanya City Industrial and Commercial Bureau also suggested to the quality supervision department that the conversion rate should be fixed when formulating fair scales in the future, so as to eliminate human violations.

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