Fort Bonifacio in Taguig, Metro Manila supposed to be THE place to go for fine dining. Flor and I do not like to spend that much on dining, we usually look for other places with good food and for affordable prices. But that’s not the reason for this story.
Last week we were walking in the Fort when I suddenly spotted this window of a Chinese restaurant. When I saw this window I immediately thought of some small local chinese restaurants in some back streets in Hong Kong when we visited that city some years ago. The smell in these streets was not the best and the windows were dirty and difficult to look inside the places. This window on the picture is not appealing to me, and to go inside and have a meal there? I do not know about you, my dear readers, but even if I was very hungry and this one was the only restaurant in the world, I wouldn’t like to go in there.
The same goes for the restrooms of a restaurant. As a former waiter in expensive restaurants back in Europe I know that hygiene is one of the most important things in restaurants. A restroom of a restaurant is a kind of calling card. If the restroom is not clean and fresh, how would the kitchen be? And do you like to eat in such place? For that reason I always check the restroom of a restaurant first before ordering.
Feb 09, 2011 @ 07:58:55
yes… i believe first empresion could affect the last conclusion ,, what we see could what we believe…in other way it could be dis courage you to get interest this kind of establishment in the first stage..eventhough its nothing behind what was the outside view of this place..
Feb 09, 2011 @ 13:57:41
what happen to this window is thy use water from the top of the window sliding down, specially at night thy switch on the water with some light effects and sometime the water use to liks outside and it dosent look nice,coz I use to pass this place before when I was still working in this side of Fort.And the management should take some action about this problem.coz this restaurant is like 2 years old,,,too early to get bankrupt
hope you understand my broken english
Feb 09, 2011 @ 17:06:42
Hi Joan,
That explains the dirty looking window.
But it is still not a good sight during the day…..
Feb 12, 2011 @ 05:55:47
HiJan.
We observed that here in the Philippines you can hardly find a decent and clean toilet in a restaurant or bar, even in the good ones , the only ones that are showing that it is possible to have a good and clean restroom are the restaurants like Mc Donalds, Jollibee, KFC, Chow King.
We hate it may be once it will change.