Restaurant complaining 101 Comment 2013-11-22 09:55 Exactly what you should do if you have a legitimate complaint and want to get it resolved. 1.Keep calm and people will take you, and your complaint, more seriously. As soon as you shout at the staff member who is trying to deal with you, their interest in solving your problem diminishes. 2.Tell someone immediately. There is nothing more frustrating than getting called to a table at the end of a meal after you have received positive feedback throughout the evening. If you leave your complaint until the bill comes, the phrase ‘free-loaders’ will begin to float into view. 3.Explain clearly what you want the restaurant to do. It is difficult for the restaurant to know what to do to fix the situation If you didn’t like your meal, do you want another one or something else? Or is it too late for you to catch up with the rest of the table? 4. Be realistic about your demands. If you have a fly in your glass of wine, an appropriate response is an apology and a fresh glass of wine. It’s not a fresh bottle of wine for the whole table, a free three course dinner, liqueurs and coffee. Everytime you do that, you screw it up for genuine complainants. 5.Go to the top and follow-through if necessary. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you cannot sort the problem out on the night. The senior manager/ owner isn’t there, the person isn’t empowered to take these decisions – whatever. If it was important enough to you to complain about, the biggest favour you can do that restaurant, is follow it up the next day – yes really. So often the actual boss isn’t aware of what’s going on in his/her restaurant when he’s not there. You really are doing a good thing when you actually persist in your complaint, make sure you find someone who deals with it adequately and fairly (as long as you’ve followed all the above rules of complaining yourself!) and to be honest, most people running restaurants are business people and they really need to know because otherwise, it will cost them money in lost customers and revenue. Social media should be your absolute last resort, when you can’t get any other response anywhere else. But if you are a responsible, concerned diner – please give your restaurateur very single chance to do the right thing. The vast majority will thank you for it – I promise you. That’s our 5 tips – whats yours?
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 08:01:25 +0000
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