Food sellers groan as customers snuggle extra fufu into restaurants to cut costs instead of buying extra plate

Sellers of cassava fufu, otherwise called akpu, in Enugu metropolis are becoming more vigilant as some of their customers secretly come with extra.

“Those concerned would bring the extra, and add it to the one served them, and demand extra soup,” complained a food vendor at Golf Estate.

She said she began to notice some cheating when her pot of soup could no longer be used to serve out the same quantity of akpu she has been using the same quantity of soup to serve her customers.

In her words, “Some of them come when my children are serving in the shop. They would secretly press the akpu they bring into the one they were originally served. I caught one when I observed that the quantity before him had increased, and kept being constant. He had come with an extra two wraps. I confronted him, and he admitted that he brought extra.”

Another seller at New Market, Chinyere Ogbuagu, said, “It has been happening, but it has become common nowadays. You notice them by the number of waterproofs used to wrap akpu in their front. They always have extra. The act affects our sales because soup would be insufficient.”

A building labourer, Ezekiel Okpe, justified the new trend. He said, “These sellers cheat a lot. What they serve as a plate of akpu, which they sell at N1,200, with tiny meat, can’t even satisfy a nursery school pupil. So, eaters readily buy the wraps outside at N200 each, and add them to the one served them, and demand more. It is to survive “