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Posted By: Margaret MacGillivray <host@thinehost.com> In Response To: Re: I think I ill stick to chain restaurants? (BizNewbie)
Saturday, 25 March 2006, at 3:42 p.m.
Hi, BizNewbie - first of all, I feel rude calling you that. I had hoped you'd feel comfortable enough here to introduce yourself properly and invite us to use your real name :)
As the owner of a small coffee shop, we always aim to give good service. But it's sometimes really difficult to get good feedback from customers or even potential customers 8-) - just as it is sometimes difficult or impossible to get the customer service right on busy days when the customers are playing musical chairs and there's a queue out the door.
Loads of people dream of running a restaurant and underestimate the physical and mental strength needed to cope with the hours of work and the demands of the public. It's also very easy to get discouraged in a small business when takings don't cover overheads; and sometimes it's not easy to get good staff. Difficult to guess exactly what the problems are from this side of the "Pond"!
From my side of the counter, I know I would appreciate it if someone said to me "Hey, Margaret - you were shut the other day. We were looking forward to some soup .. I hope everything's ok with you. By the way, we noticed that your xxxxxx wasn't up to standard and hope you don't mind me bringing it to your attention."
I don't run an aswerphone service in the shop (we do 9 hour days, 7 days a week, plus time to clean down the coffee shop), but I know that I wouldn't react too favourably to a hostile message. The thought of bouncing stale buns and icecubes down shirtfronts comes to mind LOL
Just because these people own a business doesn't make them into unfeeling automatons; and if they end up closing the business down, it doesn't mean that someone else couldn't make a roaring success of it.
Keep us posted on developments, please. You've certainly piqued my curiousity!
Best
Margaret
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