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'