This is to share my experience with ’Bay Leaf’ restaurant located in Raheja Arcade. Me and my wife had a dinner plan in ’Grameen’ located in the same place on last friday and some how that didn’t work and had to go to this particular restaurant.
All the dishes where extremely costly. biriyani @ 500, chicken dishes @ 475..etc.. I dont find any reason for charging like that. I had been to many hotels in bangalore. Cost of items in this hotel were comparable only to star hotel menus in terms of prices, but I couldn’t find any thing other than price to compare this restaurant with star hotels, Even basic things like service, Infrastructure, Ambiance..any thing.
What prompted me to write this mail is the end part of this story. I usually dont tip to waiters unless I feel satisfied. We had 3 roties and one Veg dish from this restaurant. I certainly dont want to waste my money by simply paying to some hotel ppl who are not worth for it. But on that day, I left 5 rupees as tip though I didn’t wanted to do it. Waiter didn’t like this and he gave it back to me. Was absolutely fine with me. At least I saved 5 rupees. 5 Rupees is valuable for me , if not for that waiter. He brought the slip for card payment I did. I just kept it in my pursue. Next day, I just happened to notice that, there was a print in the downside of the slip saying ’Thank you, please come again’.
This was crossed with pen, for telling me that please dont come here again. I felt so humiliated seeing this. But unfortunately, I didn’t notice this on that day of having food from there. Rather than going there and fighting with them, I thought this is the best way, sharing this experience with everyone. Let me see what a unsatisfied customer can do..