Petersburgers again complain about tea promoters in the center

Petersburgers again complain about promoters who invite tea tasting on Nevsky Prospekt. Eyewitnesses say that young people are imposing goods at an inflated price and blocking the passer -by.

The Hangetsu Tea store, whose employees were called the "tea mafia" in 2019, is closed. However, now promoters are most often seen by another point on Nevsky. And the creator of Hangetsu announced plans to restart the project.

"Paper" says what is known about the situation with tea utilities.

Petersburgers again complain about obsessive promoters of tea shops on Nevsky Prospekt

About a month ago, Petersburgers again began to actively complain about obsessive promoters who offer a free tasting of tea on Nevsky Prospekt.

According to eyewitnesses, young people block the passers -by, actively calls to try the drink to the store, and then try to sell tea at a price of 2 to 5 thousand rubles. For tasting, they are also asked to leave tips.

Most often, promoters are seen at the intersection of Nevsky and a large stable. There is a Changshou Tea store point

Recently, the townspeople often see teaspoons at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street. As the “Paper” found out, there is the point of the Changshou Tea store (another is located on Nevsky, 88).

Employees are recruited to the store. The announcement on the Worki website of July 18 says that people without experience can become promoters, including those who are not yet 18 years old.

According to the phone indicated in the announcement, the company is looking for people under 20 years old, who will have to invite visitors to tasting.

Changshou is said to not use aggressive Hangetsu Tea methods. However, tea shops are interconnected

CHANGSHOU TEA officers interviewed by “Paper” say not related to the Hangetsu Tea store, which Petersburgers had previously complained about. They say that it was Hangetsu workers that pushed passers -by and cursed, they “try to be as positive as possible” and do not touch people at all.

This is also confirmed by the phone indicated in the announcement of the search for promoters. The company warns that they will be fined for aggressive behavior with guests. According to one of the employees of Changshou, promoters are supposedly even attacked the promoters due to the damaged Hangetsu reputation, the aggressors were taken several times to the police department.

At the same time, as “paper” already wrote , tea shops are interconnected. Changshou Tea is controlled by a Petersburger Denis Bobrov, who was also a co -founder of the Charity Foundation “ Doing Welcome Easy ”. The President of the Fund is Denis Vishnevsky, who led Hangetsu Tea.

In addition, store promoters use similar techniques. For example, as a former employee of Hangetsu Tea said , they were taught to stop passers-by, showing a clenched palm as a stop-signal and one finger, which means “one minute”. CHANGSHOU promoters also do .

Hangetsu Tea closed in 2019 after a fight on Nevsky. However, its founder plans to restart

In 2019, the townspeople often talked about skirmishes with Hangetsu Tea promoters, and last May, the store staff had a conflict with a street artist. According to eyewitnesses, a group of young people beat him. A criminal case was opened under an article on beatings. Since then, the store has been closed.

According to one of the employees of Changshou Tea, who agreed to talk with the “paper” on the terms of anonymity, its leader Denis Bobrov is directly related to the closure of Hangetsu Tea, but he does not know how to achieve this.

The founder of Hangetsu Tea Denis Vishnevsky at the same time informed the “Paper” that the store was closed due to the fact that he “sat on drugs and lay in the hospital”. However, he plans to start the point again.

On working on Nevsky promoters complained to the police

Activist of the Central District for a Comfortable Hailing Movement Yaroslav Kostrov told Paper that he complained about the promoters of Changshou Tea to the police. "Paper" sent a request to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg about whether the company's activities were started.

According to one of the employees of Changshou Tea on Nevsky, 20, in the evening of July 29, the police came there, minor workers were taken to the 78th police department on Chekhov Street. According to him, they drew up a protocol that will be sent to the commission on minors. The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “Paper” promised to clarify this information.

The administration of the Central District “Paper” reported that last year they really received complaints about intrusive promoters on Nevsky Prospekt, but there were no appeals for the first quarters of 2020. The authorities associate this with coronavirus restrictions that suspended the activities of stores.

The administration emphasized that insulting behavior and harassment of residents is considered petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation). However, in order to hold the guilty to justice, you need to fix the violations and write a statement to the police.

Petersburgers call obsessive promoters a "tea mafia." Last year, a large -scale flash mob was arranged against them

In 2019, the Petersburger Dmitry Parfyonov launched a flash mob against tea promoters - he said that one of the Hangetsu Tea employees broke his friend's nose. The action was supported by dozens of users who wrote posts with a tag #Mynubemchay. After that, the police came to the store, and after the conflict of employees and street artist, the point closed.

“Paper” told the Hangetsu Tea history in detail and its founders: how they earned on charity and ecology, why they quarreled and became competitors and that former employees said about work in the tea.

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