A restaurant manager has been branded the 'stingiest boss in Europe ' for charging a mum 36p to heat up her baby 's feeding bottle . Mum Gitte Denteneer asked staff at the Rubens eaterie in Leuven , Belgium , to warm up some milk for her two-month old son Lucca . But when she came to pay , she was stunned to find that 50 cents had been added onto the bill . Outrage : A restaurant manager has been branded the 'stingiest boss in Europe ' for charging a mum 36p to heat up her baby 's feeding bottle . She Tweeted a photo of the bill , which went viral and triggered outrage on the Twitter social media website . Ms Denteneer told Belgium 's Het Laatste Nieuws daily : 'We were flabbergasted . This is a very mean gesture . ' I have never heard of a restaurant billing people for this service . I will not be going back . ' Her total bill last Sunday lunchtime came to around £20 , including an omlette , two cappuccinos and two caramel desserts . Stunned : Mum Gitte Denteneer took to Twitter to express her shock at the charged levied for the bottle-warming . A spokesman for the Horeca Vlaanderen restaurant chain , which owns the Rubens Cafe ( pictured ) , said later 'this could only happen when a customer is explicitly told this service is charged for ' Ms Denteneer wrote later on Twitter , along with an image of the bill : 'Euro 0.50 on the bill because you are warming up the bottle for your 2-month-old baby . £fail £caferubens £leuven . ' Fellow users expressed astonishment at the boss 's penny-pinching . One wrote : 'He is the meanest man in Europe . ' Another quipped : 'How very petty . Hope the baby found it yummy . ' A spokesman for the Horeca Vlaanderen restaurant chain , which owns the Rubens Cafe , said later : 'This could only happen when a customer is explicitly told this service is charged for . 'But in the vast majority of Horeca establishments , this service is free . '
Gitte Denteneer was stunned after getting the bill from Rubens in Leuven . The Belgian cafe had charged her 50 cents for use of their electricity . Ms Denteneer later took to Twitter to express her outrage at the charge . Others on Twitter shared her anger and called the Rubens boss 'mean '