too long!

[Anita Brian and Aslan]

captainjon, personally, and , this is my personal opinion, if you sit in a place for 25 minutes and dont get served, you a looking for how long you can sit in a place before getting served. why not say excuse me , can i order . . . . . But to just sit there is , to me, and this is only my little opinion, waiting for something to complain about, rather than wanting something to eat
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[Highlander]

Captionjon - if I may relay Mrs H's opinion on your post..

"If I waited for twenty-five minutes for staff to take any notice of me, I'd begin to think the restuarant was self-service"

[Anita Brian and Aslan]

LOL, at least we got some debate going . LOLOL

[Anita Brian and Aslan]

Must say Highlander, a great place in the world that you living

[bee]

excuse me can I order, can I order! are you for real. after 10 minutes i did gesture that we wanted a drink! some food maybe, why else would we be there, lets get back to basics, calis as a resort that has many many privatly owned properties, with friends relatives and also paying guests returning year after year, with an option of eating at home, so you would think that these restaurants would try much harder, but im afraid in reality most of them dont, for me definatly off the list is
1 Bostons
2 china breeze
3 anna restaurant, to name three, I would rather have a restaurant that may not create gastronomic delicacies, but try really hard, than the ones that quite frankly couldnt give a toss, as for you, the new members and I'm sure you know who you are!! try another topic or if this forum is so bad, stay off it as Ive said before "YOU pay your money YOU make your choice!

[peecee]

Surely waiters ARE there to serve you?  Bit pointless otherwise.

[mercury]

John. We have been in Bostans lots of times. I know how hard they work but the staff and the food have to be consistant. Saturdays is always a busy night there because they do a cheap barbeque. What about the other nights? I don't have a problem with their staff because they know us and we always get treated well. We have walked on the sea front many times at night and sometimes one bar is always busier than another but for various reasons. Doesn't mean that Bostans is always the busiest.

[mercury]

Bee I agree with you. On the whole I think that the quality of food is overpriced and overated on the Sea front in Calis as do many of our friends which is why most of our friends choose not to eat down their. The exception is Serkul 1 where we go for a chinese sometimes in the Winter. It is right what you say that they are short sighted in thinking that if some tourists don't like it then there will always be others. Wait till this Winter and let them see how many locals are going back.

[tiddly winks]

The way I see it on this topic, there are two opinions on what to do when you're waiting to be served.

1. It is the waiter's job to serve you therefore you wait for them to come to you and ask what you'd like to drink, food etc. If this doesn't happen within a decent amount of time it is bad service and you then vote with your feet. Any variations of waiting a lengthy amount of time for other courses and such can be applied.

2. Again, it is the waiter's job to serve you but if you're waiting attempt to get their attention until they come to you. After all you there for food and if that's important you'll get the waiter's attention and the food.

Scunner, you mentioned earlier how bringing up an old topic brings back up bad publicity. Sometimes people are told that one topic is enough on one restaurant and their thread is then locked. Maybe there's slight mixed messages regarding that. Also, people will still look at the topic brought back up, see a positive view of it then reconsider. It also allows for a healthy debate. If there was a thread that really raved about a place saying how amazing it was, more than likely someone would post on it with a negative experience and then a healthy debate would then crop up. It's happened before and it was happening on this thread.

Back onto the topic, I've only eaten at Bostan's once last year when Tom Moss was performing there. From what I remember the service was fairly average, but as there was entertainment I don't think I noticed the timing of food. It's possibly gone downhill since then.

[Scunner]

One topic about one subject is what we say Tiddlo, in as much as we locked 9 out of the 10 topics that appeared within hours on new visa rumours recently as one topic for all the debate makes sense. Likewise, there is no need to post the same message in 5 different sections, that is what we are talking about. There is no need to post a review about a restaurant in Hisaronu in the restaurant review section, copied to the Hisaronu section and Ovacik section because it is near Hisaronu.

There is a section for restaurant reviews (this one) and there are reviews from different people, both good and bad (but contrary to one opinion way more positive than negative) and people rightly post their review as a new topic. Who would seriously want to post a good review tacked onto an old negative one??!! Oh I see.

I am well aware that some new members are not experienced in forum use but we are here to help if anyone needs advice on where to post.

I trust that clarifies that for you Tiddler.