I had previously filed a complaint to their branch's manager. Unfortunately, there wasn't any reply from him, so I forwarded the email to the headquarter of OLDTOWN White Coffee. They replied, but it seems as if my feedback was not appreciated, and the issue is still unsolved. Please read my email below:
Dear (name),
This email is sent to you because I was told that you are the manager of Subang Avenue's OLDTOWN White Coffee.
On the 13th of December 2012 (Friday), after 10.30pm, I visited your outlet together with my other three friends to do revision. Initially, we were all sitting at the smoking area located on the upper floor. Soon, one of my friends and I moved to the non-smoking area, the table that says that it can only be used when there is a minimum of four person, and it was when disaster happened.
Indeed, there were only two of us at the moment. One of your waitresses came as soon as we settled down to ask if we have four person, or we should move to another table. It was followed by another waiter who came and said the same thing to us. Surely, it was our fault for not following what that was written earlier, so we asked the other two friends of ours to join us to make it four. Just so you know, it will definitely take a while for them to move their seats, because we were having Mathematics revision, and no one likes to be interrupted while solving questions. This, I believe, is absolutely understandable. Furthermore, your cafe was not even close to being fully occupied, so there was no need to rush at all. Am I right? We have clearly told your staffs that yes, the other two girls will join us in a bit, but one of them came to us again to repeat the same thing. Certainly, I started to feel annoyed. Very annoyed.
Soon, four of us were seated at the same table, so we thought that the problem was solved and that we could finally focus on our revision. Your waitresses apologized to my friends for causing trouble as they came to join my table, and my friends were pretty fine with that, until something more dramatic happened right after that. By the way, we have ordered a total of three cups of drinks at the moment, including Iced OLDTOWN White Coffee, Warm Water, and Iced OLDTOWN Enriched Chocolate.
Another waitress, A, came to us, took a menu, and started to convince my friends to order some drinks. She even mentioned that a cup of plain water would be fine. My friends did not intent to order at all. That's the point. Even if they did, they could have done it on their own. Logically, who would ever force customers to purchase or order this and that? Only Subang Avenue's OLDTOWN White Coffee did that, or does that, I suppose. Logically, are three drinks way too little for four ladies after dinner time? After A's offer was rejected, she rudely placed the menu back to where she took it from, and left.
Later on, she came back to us again and said that we had been occupying the place for more than two hours when we were merely there for less than an hour, and if we did not order more, we would have to move to another table. Again. Ridiculous! Initially, they said that if there're four person for the table, it will be fine. Then, they forced us to order more or we would have to move to another table again, when we already have enough people for that freaking table where no one was waiting in line. Seriously?!
My friends and I were extremely annoyed that one of them finally got mad and told her off, which it was totally reasonable for being treated in the worse way and badly disturbed continuously. She was lucky that we did not really scold her as we tried to control our anger. She then rudely stared at us as if we had the fault.
No, your staffs did not come for just thrice, but more than five times within that hour, especially A. It was too much. I have always been to a few of other OLDTOWN White Coffee outlets but never have I encountered such lousy waitresses, especially A.
P/S: It was not until later on that we realized that the table behind us (same type, for a minimum of four person) was only occupied by two person, and none of your staffs even bothered to bug them at all. Brilliant.
Really, what is your standard operating procedure? Where is the respect and priority for your customers who pay for even your lousy services? Please also provide FULL explanations about the kind of policy you have here, as well as how you have to rush people to make four person in a group almost immediately, how EACH of your customers MUST order drinks in order to stay for a few more hours, how we could not stay for long, how necessary it was to disturb your customers again and again about the table issue when no one was waiting for the table at all. Yes, FULL explanation for whatever my friends and I were unhappy about. If these were really the company's policy, where are the signs that say so in and around your cafe?
Whatever we had perceived was nothing compared to what we were expecting. It was indeed the worst experience we have ever had with restaurants of all categories.
Date of Visit: Dec 13, 2012
Spending per head: Approximately RM10(宵夜)
Other Ratings:Taste
2 |
Environment
2 |
Service
1 |
Clean
2 |
Value for Money
1Recommend
0