The Sweet Service Award goes to Labotessa Hotel and Café and its owner Johan du Plessis, for his continuous generosity in spoiling me when I pop in there for their wonderful Appeltaart or all-Day Breakfast, sitting at their outside tables. It is a wonderful inner-City refuge with friendly Service, a Dutch-inspired interior design, and good food.
The Sour Service Award goes to the Constantia Fruit Truck at the circle opposite La Parada, for their rude service. I stopped to buy fresh figs, wanting two trays, charged at R70 each, and was denied a better rate for buying two trays, being offered such a discount on a previous purchase there, and having experienced them as very pushy in getting one to buy additional items. I was then told that the R70 was a reduced rate, down from R75, which was an outright lie, as they cost R 70 on my last purchase too! When I decided to buy one box only and gave them a R100 note, they were scratching in a container with coins, as if they had no change. I insisted on receiving the change in notes, which I received eventually, they joking that they would not give me change, I not finding this funny at all!
The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog. Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at chrisvonulmenstein [at] gmail.com. Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog.
Chris von Ulmenstein, WhaleTales Blog: www.chrisvonulmenstein.com/blog Tel +27 082 55 11 323 Twitter:@Ulmenstein Facebook: Chris von Ulmenstein, My Cape Town Guide/Mein Kapstadt Guide Instagram: @Chrissy_Ulmenstein @MyCapeTownGuide
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