Our visit to Eugene last Saturday was followed by an early dinner at Conti’s Bakeshop and Restaurant at B.F. Homes Paranaque. It’s a small yet cozy place, has good customer service plus good and satisfying food.
Photos of food we devoured below. I ordered the house best-seller “Baked Salmon”.
@jen, hi! yeah, which reminds me, i should probably write about those too..oh how i wish i’m getting paid for this..haha..but nah, they provided me good customer service so i’ll give them good publicity too.. :) thanks for your thoughts..have a great day, jen! :)
just went to conti's greenhills for dessert with family. my daughter ordered chocolate mousse – not on stock for sliced portions but you can see it displayed for sale by the whole. okay, fair enough. change order to a frozen torte (forgot which one) – not available also for inhouse sliced orders. mmmm….conti's is a dessert place right ? change order again to another, not available again !!! told them they should just get the whole cake in the display freezer and slice it for us ! waiter just kept repeating about their policy that what is for sale by the whole cannot be served for the resto customers. finally i asked for the manager (which he should have done in the first place!) and the manager agreed to serve the chocolate mousse to us. yun pala eh !
Hi Cookie, thanks for the comment.
I haven't been to Conti's Greenhills. I've only tried Conti's BF Paranaque and the one at Serendra. Both had good customer service, no issue. That's a rather disappointing story to hear. Well, at least you still won in the end. I still believe though that had the waiter/server been proactive enough to volunteer the manager at the onset of the request which he/she can't seem to provide, then the issue would have been resolved early.
I'm not sure whether it is acceptable for restos/bakeshop to decline orders of cake slices but I have encountered similar issues with Red Ribbon before.
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