A dad has blasted the restaurant where he took his family for Christmas dinner for ruining the feast for his children.
Rick Arpino says his four children were served chicken and chips instead of the traditional turkey and trimmings - but other customers have blasted the dad for failing to recognise one very obvious detail.
Mr Arpino visited the Ruposhi Indian Bar & Restaurant in Bury, Greater Manchester on Christmas Day - with his partner and their four children.
The dad ordered two Indian meals for himself and his partner and says he ordered traditional Christmas dinners for the children, the Manchester Evening News reports.
However, he says he was fuming when the kids' plates arrived and on them was chicken, chips, and half a fried tomato.
Taking to both Tripadvisor and Facebook to vent his frustrations, Mr Arpino said: "What an absolute farce of a restaurant - Xmas Dinner ruined for our children on the whim of this establishment."
However, the Ruposhi Indian Restaurant has said that all customers were called on the telephone ahead of Christmas Day to take orders and they were told there would be no traditional Christmas dinner option, due to a lack of interest.
Since making his complaint Mr Arpino has been blasted by hundreds of people defending the restaurant.
One diner, Peter Holden, wrote on the What's on in Ramsbottom Facebook page: "I think Christmas dinner was ruined the second you decided to go for an Indian for a Christmas dinner!"
Another, John Southworth said: "Ruposhi is a fabulous Indian restaurant serving wonderful Indian food, we love it there. However, it would probably be low down on my list of places to host a 'traditional' British Christmas lunch. Maybe try another establishment rather than giving it a bad review?"
Rachel Bowen went to the Ruposhi on Christmas Day - and said she was told they weren't doing Christmas dinner when she booked.
She said: "We went yesterday couldn't fault it we all had the curry amazing. After all it is a Indian curry house. If you wanted English food I would suggest you to go a pub or somewhere. They did come round asking if everything was ok so really you should off(sic) said something and not slag them off all over Facebook."
The restaurant's manager, Shah Munim, has said that he's written to Tripadvisor to complain about the review and said so few customers had opted for turkey dinner that it was not worthwhile for the restaurant to prepare it.
He said: "We want to please our customers. We gave them options. And they chose chicken and chips.
"I fully agree with them, they're not happy. I did my best.
"But unfortunately after leaving they wrote on Facebook and Tripadvisor. I don't know why they're doing that," he said.
The Ruposhi served around 80 customers on Christmas Day on Saturday, December 25.
One of whom left a five-star review.
The user Vacation57473667691 said: "We came for Christmas day six off(sic) us excellent food yet again fantastic service and staff curries was(sic) spot on. Thank you for a lovely meal."
Mr Shah has been running the restaurant for 11 years and says that he has been struggling bringing all of his customers back into the restaurant after lockdown.
"It's a very hard time to run a business right now," he said.
He said that negative reviews can impact his business.
"It's easy for them to write a review on Tripadvisor but it's hard to run a business and to keep customers happy," he said.
