{"id":66870,"date":"2015-05-15T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T06:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=66870"},"modified":"2015-05-15T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T06:14:12","slug":"pick-n-pay-camps-bay-sweet-service-and-bp-president-motors-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/pick-n-pay-camps-bay-sweet-service-and-bp-president-motors-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick ‘n Pay Camps Bay Sweet Service and BP President Motors Sour Service Awards!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pick<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to Pick ‘n Pay Camps Bay and its Manager Gavin Grobler, for his assistance in the purchase of a watermelon. \u00a0The Garden’s Centre branch, which supplies our grocery requirements, did not have watermelons in stock. \u00a0I called the Camps Bay store, and received prices for whole and cut watermelons. \u00a0I told him that I would send my housekeeper Teresa to him, to buy a whole watermelon. Gavin was concerned that the watermelon was too heavy for her to carry, and sent one of his staff to carry it back to our guest house for her. \u00a0I Tweeted a thank you to Gavin and his branch, which message was passed on to him via their head office, resulting in him calling to thank me. \u00a0This excellent service came from a branch that has had a terrible service reputation in the past, prior to Gavin heading up the branch.<\/p>\n

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\"BP<\/a>The Sour Service Award<\/strong> goes to BP President Motors on Regent Road Sea Point, for the rude service from the petrol attendant and the owner Rob Shaw. \u00a0I had to wait a while for the attendant to come to the car, and he just started filling up, which I had intended. \u00a0I asked him to clean the windscreen, but he kept holding on to the pump, saying he cannot do two things at the same time. \u00a0I then asked him to stop at R300, and to call his manager Mr Shaw. \u00a0When it came to paying, the attendant stopped the transaction, without reason, and burst forth in abuse. Instead of asking me what the problem was, Mr Shaw said I was the first customer in 12 years to complain about their attendant. \u00a0I had to beg him to take my payment so that I could go, having wasted 30 minutes of my time at the BP service station!<\/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 whalecot@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.<\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio:\u00a0www.whalecottage.com<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Tel (021) 433-2100, Twitter:@WhaleCottage \u00a0Facebook: \u00a0<\/strong>click here<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to Pick ‘n Pay Camps Bay and its Manager Gavin Grobler, for his assistance in the purchase of a watermelon. \u00a0The Garden’s Centre branch, which supplies our grocery requirements, did not have watermelons in stock. \u00a0I called the Camps Bay store, and received prices for whole and cut watermelons. \u00a0I […]<\/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":[15,3,124,266,248,21],"tags":[30408,32370,32378,30410,957,1931,30409,658,10922,1587,30411,32373,1771],"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