The owner of a Michelin-ranked restaurant has banned bankers from his eatery in revenge for being denied a business loan.
Alexandre Callet, 30, who runs the gourmet restaurant Les Ecuries de Richelieu, is furious after he was refused a €70,000 ($117,560) credit line to open a second venue.
The blackboard outside his restaurant in Rueil-Malmaison, an upmarket suburb to the west of Paris, reads: "Dogs welcome, bankers banned (unless they pay an entry fee of €70,000)."
Callet told Le Figaro: "As soon as I see a banker that I recognise, I won't let them enter my restaurant. They have treated me like a dog, so I have denied them access.
"I'm not going to police the doors but the people concerned know who they are."