This is the fascinating – and captivating – story of a client in a well known Lagos restaurant, who wound up being blamed for attempting to take the restaurant’s menu by duplicating some menu things and their prices into his journal. The dramatization that resulted inevitably drove the client to compose a conventional protest letter to the administration of the restaurant. What follows beneath is a portrayal of that occurrence – with references to the focuses made in the letter. Really accept the client made various extremely admirable statements in it, that ANY restaurant or bar proprietor will discover educational – if not self-evident.
Why share this? All things considered, no one can really tell who else may endure the equivalent awful treatment at another outfit since some staff feel they have to ensure their supervisor’s proprietary advantage. Additionally, it could assist with forestalling a circumstance in which another restaurant entrepreneur may discover him/herself saying ‘sorry’ to clients for his/her staff’s impoliteness. One Monday morning in January, Ayo strolled into a mainstream neighborhood restaurant head office to unwind and have a beverage. While tasting it, he glanced through the menu set on the table he was situated at, and chose to duplicate out a portion of the menu data into my journal, with the restaurant address, so he could impart it to a partner.
He had no pen on him, so he acquired one from a youthful orderly behind the counter, at that point came back to his table which happened to be the nearest to the counter and proceeded with his beverage as he duplicated out the data he felt would be valuable. Before long, the woman came around, took a gander at what he was composing and started yelling consistently that Ayo could not duplicate the menu, and that she would tear his journal. He challenged her to. An arrangement of occasions followed in which other staff of the logan’s roadhouse menu prices – and a client. – participate to demand to Ayo that what he was doing was not right. The degree of instruction this uncovered would later propel Ayo to keep in touch with the administration of the restaurant to call attention to as he had to the staff the accompanying facts:
- On the off chance that the restaurant menu was NOT implied for replicating by clients or untouchables, the most ideal approach to prevent it from happening would have been to STATE it plainly in printed ink on the base of each page of the menu. That way, all peruses would know. By neglecting to do this, they invited numerous who might not know to do it.
- In the event that he really expected to take the menu, for what reason did he decide to come and do so directly before the staff? That ought to have made it clear that he did not consider it strange to do what he did?