Pune’s Cafe Rules Leave Nothing to Chance

Pune’s Menu Starts With Practical Prohibitions ☕

The photographed Pune cafe menu begins sensibly enough: no laptops, no charging points, no smoking, no credit and no outside food. It is a firm reminder that an Irani cafe is a place to order tea and food, not rent an office for the price of one bun maska.

The Rulebook Then Audits Human Behaviour 🧾

The list quickly expands into no loud talking, no bargaining, no asking for change, no matchsticks and no discussing gambling. “No carry bags” sits beside “no sharing,” suggesting that this establishment has seen enough improvised logistics to develop its own customer constitution. Even news coverage of the viral menu struggled to decide whether it was discipline or performance art.

Personal Grooming Receives Its Own Department 🪥

Then come the rules nobody expects to need in writing: no combing, no nose-digging and no brushing teeth. A restaurant normally publishes a menu; this one also publishes the boundaries of table-side grooming. The presence of each line invites the same alarming question raised by online readers: did someone actually try it?

Cashier Flirting Ends Before Coffee Arrives 🚫

The final sequence bans sleeping, running away, gum under the table, mobile games, flirting with the cashier and free advice. The last item is particularly efficient: after regulating food, posture, romance and dental hygiene, the cafe refuses unpaid consultancy on how to regulate them better. The reported online reaction included the inevitable suggestion that “No Entry” might save printing costs, but the sign’s comic force lies in its specificity. Pune’s cafe culture has produced a rule list with more plot than many short stories.

Sources

• Original image
• Original Reddit discussion
• NDTV report on the Pune menu

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