{"id":59015,"date":"2014-07-11T00:47:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=59015"},"modified":"2014-07-11T00:47:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:47:56","slug":"fifa-world-cup-2014-sweet-service-and-nu-health-food-cafe-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/restaurant-news\/fifa-world-cup-2014-sweet-service-and-nu-health-food-cafe-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup 2014 Sweet Service and N\u00fc Health Food Caf\u00e9 Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"World<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to the Soccer World Cup 2014, which has been entertaining, full of surprises in winning and losing teams, lots of goals scored, new records set (the Germany – Brazil match being the most remembered in future, one would expect), and dominating Social Media for the past four weeks by setting new Twitter records. \u00a0The crowning highlight will be the Final between Germany and Argentina on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

\"Nu<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to N\u00fc Health Food Caf\u00e9\u00a0in Sea Point, one of a group of healthy fresh food restaurants belonging to Col’Cacchio, and nominated by Kay Dawson: \u00a0‘I am sad to feel the need to nominate a company for a sour service award, especially when they espouse great ideals and have truly gone the extra mile in sourcing ethical suppliers resulting in an innovative and healthy menu.\u00a0My husband took me there for a lunch treat and I ordered a salad called The Fixer.\u00a0One of the ingredients is pea shoots.\u00a0Well I got 3 shoots – a garnish on top of the salad. \u00a0The radishes were also sliced thickly and unevenly.\u00a0It was ordered as a takeaway so I only found this out once at home.\u00a0I went onto their website and sent an email from the site thanking them for the positives mentioned above as well as a great rooibos drink I enjoyed in the restaurant but advising them of my disappointment in the salad.\u00a0I received no reply within a few days, so I resent it manually. No reply.\u00a0So I called the Sea Point branch (where we went) and was advised to email Megan at Head Office.\u00a0So I resent the mail a third time directly to her inbox.\u00a0You guessed it – no reply to date – weeks later.\u00a0Perhaps they need a little bit of social media shaming in order to remember customer manners.\u00a0A pity<\/em>‘.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong>\u00a0are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at\u00a0\u00a0whalecot@iafrica.com<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the\u00a0WhaleTales\u00a0<\/strong>newsletters on the\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>website.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: \u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Twitter: @WhaleCottage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to the Soccer World Cup 2014, which has been entertaining, full of surprises in winning and losing teams, lots of goals scored, new records set (the Germany – Brazil match being the most remembered in future, one would expect), and dominating Social Media for the past four weeks by setting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[124,1918,20,564,21,20469],"tags":[3512,2145,32378,2436,18,560,26421,26420,658,25977,26422,32373,1771],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t