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Coral Tan (sadsinglemummy)
Junior Member Username: sadsinglemummy
Post Number: 196 Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Monday, July 12, 2010 - 3:29 pm: |
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Hi Everyone, Yesterday i went to Suntec Restaurant at the third storey of the with my two kids and one of my x colleague. Their age are 3 and 7 years old. When i reached there, i was immediately reminded from one of the captains that my gal is above 1.2m, so need to pay for an adult buffet charges, and my son is above 0.9m, so i need to pay for a child fare. When she was informing me about this issue, she gave me a "Kan Bu Qi" look. At that moment, I am sure that my gal is shorter than 1.2m, so she suggested me to go for a height measurement and was told that she is 1.3m tall. From there, i decided to call for an ala carte since both of them are small eater, esp my gal is only 7 yrs old. How can she eats an adult fare? After i have finished my meals, i walked out of the restaurant and realised that the measurement tape is totally inaccurate. Why did i say that? It is because as an adult, we will definitely know our height. We can't be exceptionally taller than usual on that day or time. When i talked about this issue, my colleague also told me that although she is wearing heels, but can't be taller than 1.55m. From then, i realised that this restaurant is trying to make parents to pay for their children under adult price even though they did not hit at the height of 1.2m. My purpose of writing here is to tell every parents about this issue because i did not want any parents to be cheated by this restaurant tactics by bringing in more profit. |
   
MikerDeMa (mikerdema)
New member Username: mikerdema
Post Number: 89 Registered: 3-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 3:15 pm: |
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Hi Coral, thanks for highlighting this! there should be a thread on good and bad restaurants! Personally i think those 'money sucking' restaurants should be BLACKLISTED  |
   
Jen (snowpooher)
Senior Member Username: snowpooher
Post Number: 12579 Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2010 - 5:21 pm: |
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Thanks for highlighting! I'm not willing to pay for buffet price for my kids even is child fare. How much can the kids eat?? I usually order ala carte to let my 4 and 5 years old share. Sometimes, they can't finish. I don't order child meal for them cos usually it comes with useless toy or drinks. |
   
Coral Tan (sadsinglemummy)
Junior Member Username: sadsinglemummy
Post Number: 198 Registered: 7-2009
| | Posted on Friday, July 16, 2010 - 4:32 pm: |
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Hi MikerDeMa/Jen, In fact, i don't mind spending abit more on buffet because they can eat whatever they like in a very small portion, but due to this restaurant, they are really very bad to lie on the height issue. As what you all have mentioned, children don't eat as much as adult,so they should not be so strict that expect me to pay for adult fare instead of children fare. In this way, most of the parents in Singapore cannot enjoy buffet unless those restaurant are willing to charge less under kids fare. Jen, may i know how do you control the kids by not allowing them to get the toys? My kids are really hard to control them, especially there are samples on the display and demanded me to get one for each of them, or else they will keep asking why? Wanna share? |
   
Jen (snowpooher)
Senior Member Username: snowpooher
Post Number: 12581 Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 2:41 pm: |
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I usually keep away the kids menu LOL Even if they see it, I will tell them no lor, they usually listen. |
   
LA Mommy (la_mommy)
New member Username: la_mommy
Post Number: 3 Registered: 3-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, July 24, 2010 - 10:47 am: |
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Aiyoh! Are you talking about the Chinese restaurant on the 3rd floor? I always go there one! But luckily never eat buffet cos always rushing to go off. Didn't know they so terrible. Will stop going there in future! |
   
dada (dada1609)
Member Username: dada1609
Post Number: 1077 Registered: 10-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 10:17 pm: |
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Can pm me the restaurant's name? tia. |
   
Shirley (poopoo)
Intermediate Member Username: poopoo
Post Number: 2091 Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 1:14 pm: |
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what is the restaurant name? |