An American ripoff in Paris.

Parisian servers have always been notorious for their rudeness, but now it looks like they’re ripping off customers as well. Paris restaurants are charging US tourists up to 50% more than local patrons, an undercover investigation has found.

Following several online complaints about the so-called American tourist tax, the city’s leading rag Le Parisien sent two reporters to a cafe on the heavily-touristed Champ-de-Mars near the Eiffel Tower to see if the servers were guilty of fry-way robbery, the Telegraph reported.

Paris has become the City Of Light wallets for American diners. Ever – stock.adobe.com

One of the journalists went dressed as a typical Parisian while the other, writer Mathieu Hennequin, masqueraded as a classic US traveler with a baseball

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