A company in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province held an annual dinner at a local hotel, but an electricity bill of 7,500 yuan appeared on the bill, which caused heated discussions.
On February 7, the hotel involved responded to reporters that the company had a long rehearsal with the air conditioner on before the formal dinner, and the 7,500 yuan was mainly for heating.
Recently, some netizens posted on social ** that the company had an annual dinner at a hotel in Changzhou, Jiangsu, and found that a 7,500 yuan electricity bill appeared on the receipt when checking out, "Outrageous, the first time I heard that electricity bills are charged for meals." ”
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The party, Ms. Liu (pseudonym), said in an interview with ** that her company held an annual meeting in this hotel and held dozens of tables at 1,200 yuan per table. When she was about to settle the bill on January 30, she found that the bill showed an electricity bill of 7,500 yuan, and the hotel had not told her before. Ms. Liu said that the company has already negotiated with the hotel, "Our attitude is to refuse to pay the electricity bill, and the other expenses are fine." But the hotel was unwilling and demanded that the electricity bill must be paid, so we have not paid at the moment, and the two sides are in a stalemate. ”
On the afternoon of the 7th, the reporter called the hotel concerned, and the staff said, "7,500 yuan is mainly the air conditioning and heating expenses during the rehearsal." We don't charge for air conditioning during formal dinners, but they come to rehearsal early, and it was cold in those days, so they were all very thin and the air conditioning was on. ”
How is 7500 yuan calculated? The hotel previously said in an interview with ** that the other company specially asked someone to calculate, and the cost of air conditioning in the hall was about 500 yuan an hour (about 450 yuan for gas and about 50 yuan for electricity). "At the annual meeting they held on January 27, the air conditioner was turned on from 8 a.m. to about 7 p.m. on the 26th, and from 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. the next day, for more than 20 hours in two days. What we mean by this is that there is no charge for air conditioning from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the day of the annual meeting, and the rest of the time will be charged. ”
The above-mentioned staff told reporters that there are more annual meetings at the end of the year, and some customers have asked to turn on the air conditioner for two hours in advance, and they are all paying 500 yuan per hour to the hotel. In this incident, they had informed the company involved in advance that they would have to bear the cost of air conditioning during the rehearsal. "If we don't pay for the air conditioning for rehearsals, we're going to lose money, and it's the first time we've encountered this in 20 years. ”
It is understood that the company spent a total of more than 50,000 yuan on the annual meeting, because the electricity fee project failed to reach an agreement, the company has not yet paid the hotel, and the two sides are still communicating and negotiating.
The reporter contacted a number of local hotels in Changzhou, and the other party said that there was a fee to occupy the venue for rehearsals in advance, and some hotels said that the heating fee for a day was 5,000 yuan, and some hotels said that it was 1,000 yuan a day.
*: Jimu News.