Osteria Tre Colonne In Acireale

27/07/2024: Excellent pizza. Sublime dough. Highly recommended. Average prices

08/07/2024: Hungry after an evening, we decide to stop and get a takeaway pizza to eat "on the fly" for the limited time available to us. It happens to us at double zero shot. 11pm. Empty place. I go in and order 1 pizza, 1 beer and 1 water, almost embarrassed to disturb the pizza chef sitting outside for a well-deserved rest. Pizza ready in 5 minutes anyway so we leave the place with my wife and since the tables outside were empty, we suddenly decide to sit at one of these to eat quickly AFTER AUTHORIZATION TO THE SAME STAFF SITTING OUTSIDE (I think Pizza chef helper). Having received permission we sat down. However, while we were eating the pizza, the cashier/owner (I don't know) joins us to point out with ill-concealed annoyance that the place also offers table service... in other words our gesture of occupying a table after a takeaway order was not appreciated. . Now, having changed my mind along the way and having occupied a table, I would first of all ask for forgiveness for our mistake, but I would like to advise the restaurateur to be less rigid on these occasions: we asked for authorisation, the place was empty, the tables unoccupied and the same staff were sitting outside lounging (this is more serious); in this specific case, pointing out something like this to the customer who has regularly purchased the drink is a boomerang. I underline in my case that the difference in profit between takeaway and table service is only the cover charge, therefore in the order of 2-4 euros. I would like to point out that at the end we removed cardboard and bottles and consciously cleaned the table. Sin! the pizza was decent, but the managers instead of gaining new customers (while we were tasting the pizza we were already calmly organizing a return trip with the families) made sure to lose them... in the end for a 2-4 euro cover charge. Unfortunately for them, we won't be back.