Schmidt: Tax street food establishments. Streets need to be cleaned of sandwich oil.

Uffizi Galleries director Eike Schmidt launches a proposal-provocation against street food, which causes filth in art cities.

The proposal would be to introduce “additional taxation for street food establishments, in short, those that do not offer their customers space and tables, but force them to eat on the street. People eating on the street causes costs to the community because the streets then have to be cleaned of the oil from the sandwiches.” A tax that would be useful to cover the costs of cleaning the streets after tourists consume street food. This applies to Florence, but also to all other art cities.

“Sandwich oil and ketchup are not good for the pietra serena. You have to clean it right away otherwise it gets inside and stains it. We have to clean it all the time. We think of the loggia, the City thinks of the piazzale, and in fact the latter is in even worse shape,” the director commented. He added that the Uffizi and the outside loggia are cleaned at the museum’s expense twice a day to keep it clean and thus prevent dirt from staining.

Schmidt: Tax street food establishments. Streets need to be cleaned of sandwich oil.

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