A family was left with a bad taste in their mouths after a parking company fined them £150 for taking 11 minutes too long at a pizza restaurant.
Matt Turner had taken his five-year-old daughter Rebecca to the Pizza Hut on Great Portwood Street, Stockport, for a birthday treat.

They parked in the Pizza Hut car park and spent just over two hours in the restaurant.But when they left, Matt was amazed to find he and his girlfriend’s sister had been fined £75 each – because they hadn’t eaten their food within a two-hour time limit. Matt, a deputy head teacher, said: “It’s a £200 pizza bill, in effect – it’s staggering.

“Pizza Hut were extremely slow at serving their food, so we waited for ages.

“They took a while to bring the food out and by the time we waited for the bill, we had been there for just over two hours – two hours and 11 minutes to be precise. “We were only in that long because they were slow. So if you take longer than two hours to eat a pizza, it costs you £75.”

“I was absolutely gobsmacked and I feel very hard done by. It has put a real dampener on things and was a sour note on my daughter’s fifth birthday.

In other news, there are people who still eat at Pizza Hut.