Viral Video: Mumbai Vlogger Pays Food Bill With Coins At Taj Hotel, Internet Is Divided

Lokare is also heard saying in the video that he put on a suit for going into the Taj Mahal Palace restaurant.

While eating at a five-star restaurant, there are certain etiquettes to be followed. One needs to dress up accordingly, comply with table manners and pay the bill with either cash or a card. But a Mumbai-based content creator decided to break the rule and paid the bill with a handful of coins instead of cash or card.

The content creator, Siddhesh Lokare, recorded his experience and shared it on Instagram, which has now gone viral. 

''Transaction matters friend, whether you do it with a dollar or with change, read the caption of the post shared by Lokare.

The video opens to show text inserts that read, "Out of the blue thought of paying at Taj Hotel with chillars."

Lokare is also heard saying that he put on a suit for going into the Taj Mahal Palace restaurant. After he enters the restaurant,  Lokare places order for a pizza and mocktail. He then asks for the bill which one can see him paying in coins to the restaurant staff. He also says that he could hear the noises from the staff counting the coins.

''Well, the moral of the experiment is that we are so busy wearing layers based on the decorum we are surrounded with that we forget to embrace the rawness of being local at heart. Own yourself at heart for who you are and not for how situation or people expect you to be," Lokare ends the video for his followers with a life lesson.

Since being shared, the post has garnered 130,224 likes and several comments.

"The moral of this experiment said it, how you’re trying to let your surroundings affect your actions but in the end it doesn’t even matter! This makes me so happy," wrote one user.

While another wrote, "How inconvenient it must be for the staff to leave everything else and count coins, I hope you apologized for it.

"As per Indian laws, you're not allowed to pay, through coins, where the payment exceeds INR 1K," wrote a third.

"Accept yourself as we are and stop copying others. Make your own path, your own trend to people to follow. Like someone just did it by his out of the blue ideas. Great morale Sid. Embrace yourself," wrote a fourth.