{"id":6763,"date":"2010-04-30T10:26:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T08:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2010-04-30T10:26:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T08:26:44","slug":"salt-deli-sweet-and-la-vierge-sour-service-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/salt-deli-sweet-and-la-vierge-sour-service-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Deli Sweet and La Vierge Sour Service Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Sweet Service Award<\/strong> goes to Salt Deli on Victoria Road in Bantry Bay in Cape Town, for hosting a\u00a0cosy media breakfast to showcase their cooked breakfast range, which includes scrambled or poached egg and bacon (no fried eggs available), salmon and eggs benedict, and eggs en cocotte.\u00a0 On leaving, each person was handed a little sweet treat to take home.\u00a0\u00a0 New Salt restaurant chef Jacques de Jager, originally from Grande Provence in Franschhoek, came to introduce himself.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Sour Service Award <\/strong>goes to La Vierge restaurant in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley outside Hermanus, nominated by Ebony Sanders.\u00a0 Ebony writes that she was disturbed when a team of handymen arrived at the restaurant last Sunday lunch-time, and used power tools to break down a center stage, when she had to wait for more than an hour to discover that her order for her poached salmon had not been placed with the kitchen, and had to wait to have her drinks served.\u00a0\u00a0She was told that the waiter that served her\u00a0has a medical condition, which must have influenced his service level. \u00a0The invoice system was not working properly, so it took time to organise the bill when Ebony and her husband had had enough, and decided to leave, even though the Manager, via the waiter, offered to not charge for the meals.\u00a0\u00a0 The waiter did not apologise about the delay in serving the main course, and the Manager never came to see and to apologise to Ebony and her\u00a0husband. Ebony has\u00a0subsequently written to say\u00a0that she received a call of apology from Andrew, the manager, and he has invited her back for a complimentary meal.<\/p>\n

The WhaleTales Sweet & Sour Service Awards<\/strong> are presented every Friday on the WhaleTales blog.\u00a0 Nominations for the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be sent to Chris von Ulmenstein at <\/span>info@whalecottage.com<\/span><\/span><\/a>. <\/span>Past winners of the Sweet and Sour Service Awards can be read on the Friday posts of this blog, and in the WhaleTales <\/span><\/strong>newsletters on the <\/span>www.whalecottage.com<\/span><\/a> website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweet Service Award goes to Salt Deli on Victoria Road in Bantry Bay in Cape Town, for hosting a\u00a0cosy media breakfast to showcase their cooked breakfast range, which includes scrambled or poached egg and bacon (no fried eggs available), salmon and eggs benedict, and eggs en cocotte.\u00a0 On leaving, each person was handed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,75,20,248,21],"tags":[1239,32366,32378,4443,253,4445,32369,140,2501,32377,3066,2508,252,3062,4444,32373,3122],"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