September 4, 2007
Consumers Unhappy With These Cape Town Restaurants
Unhappy Consumers - Unhappy With Bad Service.
Besides my usual batch of fan mail, hate mail, pics of naked women, pics of naked men, and adverts promising to cure my bald spot; I received the following two emails this week.
One relates to a particularly bad experience at the Quarterdeck Restaurant, situated at the Grand West Casino, whilst the other was more of a concern regarding the excessive wine prices at Belthazar Restaurant, situated at the V & A Waterfront.
Not having much going on at the moment, I thought this would be an interesting case study to see whether these two establishments would take the time to address these grievances, or simply ignore them and foster resentment on the part of the customer.
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Complaint #1: Quarterdeck Restaurant, Grand West Casino
Name: Bernie Polison |
Strong words there Bernie. I wonder if the manager will be contacting you now.
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Complaint #2: Belthazar Restaurant, V & A Waterfront
Name: Louis Germishuys It is still unjustifiable so why do we pay these prices. ????? I timidly asked them if they had a corkage policy and the standard reply is that they had a huge stock of wines and that is the reason for no corkage and (the high prices). We have a little shop in the V & A since 1992 and I wish I could wack up our prices and justify exorbitant prices by telling our customers that we justify high prices so that they - the customer - could enjoy our large variety. Surely the focus should be on the food and then charge what they like but give us some respite with reasonable wine prices. It would be a very good marketing ploy.v |
A good point Louis, I actually remember a story a few months back about Belthazar charging a customer R9000 for a bottle of wine.
I’ve sent the two establishments this url, and encouraged them to respond. Let’s wait and see if they do, and what they have to say regarding the points raised.
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Hi
I also have eaten at the Quaterdeck & in fact had my 60th birthday meal there with family & friends.
Unlike the previous person who complained of bad service(Bernie Polison) who starts his complaint with:-”The old lady’s 50th” and then goes on to slate the place. I, my family & friends were given really superb first class service from the time we entered until we left. The food was superb and the service actually excelent. I was even treated to the Chief grilling me a special steak when he found out it was my birthday and I loved steak. The best surprise was when I was actually serves my meal by the chief himself who wished me a happy birthday and long life… I think that you can not at all please some people specially those that start with disrespect like “the old ladies 50th”
Hey man rather stay home where you dont infect others with your complaints.
Regards
D P Rouse
I’ve been to quarterdeck in grand west twice and on both occasions the food was lovely and we had no complaints about the service. They also has a big variety of foods and desserts and i don’t think anyone was dissatisfied.I think that people that complain about everything should just stay at home.
@Natasha,
Good for you.
I have never eaten at qauterdeck before but my mom promised me that she will take soon.My mom says it is a very nice place and she would like me to have my 21st there next year.When i go there at the end of the month i am sure that i will be very satisfied with my service,but i will first wait and see.I’ll comment on it once i have been there.
I have eaten at Quarterdeck many times…I love that place, it’s a little pricey but it’s the best munchie mission you can have. I unfortunately haven’t been as lucky as Dave (1st comment) to have my food cooked by the CHIEF, I never knew there was a CHIEF there…maybe they trying a spur tactic that I was too pissed or too goofed to see…
can you please e-mail me your prices please
I just want to tell all those people that say the Quaterdeck sucks are un-educated.I’ve eaten there on many occassions & have always expierianced great service.Quarterdeck @ Grandwest is not a 5 star restuarant,it’s a 10 star.Keep up the good work.
hi im turning 50 on 26 Nov 09
can you forward me your menu and advise on how i go about doing a booking( if there is service charges involved ect
my contact details 0721082849
021 7133634 until end of Oct new -021 7884175
hahaha… since when did this become the official contact center for quarter deck???
When i walked in at quaterdeck, i tought to myself, today im going to eat like a cow. i was so hungry.When i was done eating my sunday lunch i crossed over to dessert. That was my mistake. The chocolate moose was so sour that i had food poisoning the next day and i threw up. Qauterdeck was the worst choice i ever mad. Schoongezicht is the best, there are never dissapointments like quaterdeck.