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WESTGATE SHOPPER BEWARE
premio
#1 Posted : Monday, August 06, 2012 10:39:38 PM
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Sometime around april, i had a very bad experience at westgate shopping mall. I had taken my 2 Southafrican friends to Artcaffe grd floor Westgate which i wud say sells the finest European delicacies around. Was around 9pm xo one of them needed to use the gents and honestly such an excellent place, with very expensive finishing, world class lighting systems, expensive toilet seats U DONT EXPECT TO MISS A KSH 25.00 toilet paper and it happened. He texted me to go and help i checked all the toilets nothing went to 2nd floor and third none, Nakkumatt was closed had to run to ukay centre 500m away to help him imagine how embarrassing as he was holed there close to 1hr. I was mad but i dcd 2 forget it as a one off until today i went there @5pm to transact at Baclays just when i was about to help myself i dcd to check and no tp. Westgate shame on you, i dcd i have to warn others if u want a place to hang out go to Yaya, Juntion or Galleria but keep off westgate just incase u need to help yourself
murchr
#2 Posted : Monday, August 06, 2012 10:54:02 PM
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d'oh! d'oh! Kenyans..when will people realise that its the small things that count NKT!!!!!!
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hamburglar
#3 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 12:40:32 AM
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Oh give me a break, you can't indict a whole mall and especially a great place like arte cafe because of one isolated incident...Shit (pun intended) happens, but that doesn't mean that we should now boycott westgate enmasse just because of a little TP incident....

Your friend got out of this little sticky situation unscathed, it's not like shit had literally hit the fan in the bathroom and he looked liked the proverbial who shot john in the aftermath....Don't throw people's businesses under the bus because of such a small inconvenience....It's not cool at all.
grolut
#4 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 8:36:55 AM
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Moral of the story, always check for loo roll before unzipping.
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chiaroscuro
#5 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 8:38:23 AM
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hamburglar wrote:
Oh give me a break, you can't indict a whole mall and especially a great place like arte cafe because of one isolated incident...Shit (pun intended) happens, but that doesn't mean that we should now boycott westgate enmasse just because of a little TP incident....

Your friend got out of this little sticky situation unscathed, it's not like shit had literally hit the fan in the bathroom and he looked liked the proverbial who shot john in the aftermath....Don't throw people's businesses under the bus because of such a small inconvenience....It's not cool at all.


It is this kind of attitude that encourages lousy performance.

@hambuglar; you will notice that after the first incident, @premio give Westagate the benefit of doubt and assumed it was "an isolated" incident. A couple of months later, he finds the same situation. Now it is no longer isolated.

Clearly this is something that happens too often. It means the management of the mall does not care about their customers, at least not enough to ensure that there is toilet paper in the toilets.
premio
#6 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 8:40:55 AM
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Ham this is not a little incident as u think, Artcaffe have no fault coz they pay hundreds of thousands to westgate mall to make sure that their clients are comfortable.If u had read the thread well u wud have realized that the first time i treated it as a one off but not yesterday. I dine out at KFC Juntion, Galleria mall and yaya and beleive me their gents are clean and always stocked.
Sarrouniya
#7 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 8:50:00 AM
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This incident is shitty(pun intended too) and not believable. And of all three of you no one thought to simply grab serviettes/napkins from the restaurant before hopping all the way to Ukay? Ai?
Give us a better reason to beware of the place. Na kwa nini unawapelekea your 'business' kila saa @madampremio? I don't see how these can be pines... Airports are always self contained anyway hence the huge handbags.
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chiaroscuro
#8 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 8:56:57 AM
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As a good citizen, I was going to contact them and refer them to this thread. I tried accessing their website and guess what?


HTTP Error 504: Gateway Timeout

Sasa hii ninini?
TAZ
#9 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 9:01:59 AM
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grolut wrote:
Moral of the story, always check for loo roll before unzipping.


Ditto!
Fomoney
#10 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 9:14:08 AM
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If i eat your crap, ain't I allowed to dump there? Weka toilet paper. This is a problem with most Kenyan businesses. If I spend 5k at your biz in a course of 3 hours, then I earn the right to offload on you! All these people defending this biz is the reason we have poor service while paying premium for service.
rock
#11 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 9:46:04 AM
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grolut wrote:
Moral of the story, always check for loo roll before unzipping.

There are times when the urgency is more important than that tissue and you take care of biz first then cross that bridge later.People have used t-shirts,underwear,hankies,water,biz cards,wallets etc to clean up after
AlphDoti
#12 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:03:09 AM
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This is unacceptable!!!

@hamburglar this is the attitude leading to poor service and you want to tolerate Shame on you Shame on you
DO you ever think of how much they get from you when you spend your money there!!!

@Sarrouniya restaurants hawana bahati! They incur unnecessary costs when customers take their serviettes/napkins because management cannot provide tissue Pray Pray

Maybe as Kenyans, we need to embrace new culture just like we Muslims do - using a bidet.
People should consider introduce user friendly toilets which have an option for use of water for those who require this option.

I wonder what the situation was like before toilet paper came into fashion Think

Don't you think that people used water to wash themselves?
Ideally, toilet paper is a 'drying' agent and NOT so good as 'cleaning' material as many people belief.

This option has advantages:
1. It is a key to green world.
2. It also provides important health benefits including increased cleanliness, and the therapeutic effect of water on damaged skin (e.g. hemorrhoids).
3. Saves costs on toilet tissue paper!



grolut
#13 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:12:23 AM
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rock wrote:
grolut wrote:
Moral of the story, always check for loo roll before unzipping.

There are times when the urgency is more important than that tissue and you take care of biz first then cross that bridge later.People have used t-shirts,boxers,hankies,water,wallets etc to clean up after


Hahaha wallets! I understand though I was there once in primary, the prefect was so stingy and gave me literally two sheets of tissue. Needless to say I went home bila underwear.
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jamplu
#14 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:25:03 AM
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hamburglar wrote:
Oh give me a break, you can't indict a whole mall and especially a great place like arte cafe because of one isolated incident...Shit (pun intended) happens, but that doesn't mean that we should now boycott westgate enmasse just because of a little TP incident....

Your friend got out of this little sticky situation unscathed, it's not like shit had literally hit the fan in the bathroom and he looked liked the proverbial who shot john in the aftermath....Don't throw people's businesses under the bus because of such a small inconvenience....It's not cool at all.


and why should we settle for lousy service! if you are out to provide a service offer the best. Those little things you calling inconveniences are what matters to the customer if you can't offer a loo roll then you don't value your customers.
AlphDoti
#15 Posted : Tuesday, August 07, 2012 12:35:07 PM
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And just to add, for those looking for jobs, check-in to the loo and see before you accept the offer. That's exactly how they will treat you!!!
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