Saudi women going to the Starbucks café in Riyadh were surprised to find a board at the door asking them to stay out of the place.
Female customers were allegedly told to 'send their driver' to pick up their drinks.
The posters written in English and Arabic read: ‘Please no entry for ladies, only send your drivers to order. Thank you.’
Claims say that the country’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the most influential law enforcing authority in the Gulf Kingdom, ordered the café’s management not to admit women.
The commission issued the order after it found that the gender-separation wall ordered by authorities for all restaurants and other shops had collapsed.
Consequently, tweets have gone viral on social media, denouncing these procedures by the sop.