A Brisbane cafe has been forced to change its pet-friendly approach and will no longer allow dogs indoors, following a complaint. Little Genovese in Coorparoo had been welcoming pets inside for nine years but has now changed its procedures, after a visit from a council inspector. “They’d received a complaint about one of my staff members patting a dog and not washing their hands, which is probably untrue,” owner Kylie Loch told 7NEWS. “Let’s just a have a little bit of common sense.
The shopfront window is displaying a prominent hand-written message, saying: “Due to an anonymous complaint dogs must sit out the front or right out the back... We are sorry.” On its Instagram page, the cafe wrote: “To all our four-legged friends ... We love you very much but due to someone making a stupid complaint, sadly we can’t have you inside. “Therefore we need you to be good and sit out the front or right out the back while your hooman orders theirs coffee.