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To NOT Post a Bad Review on Trip Advisor?

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itsnotmeitsu · 09/07/2021 22:44

This is not really a serious question because I don't actually want to post a bad review for this place (we use it often). However, today we were sitting at a table by the bar in a pub we use often, and I felt droplets falling over my head. Couldn't actually see what had happened; just that it had come from the direction of the bar. I assumed it was water. I stood up and said, "What's just happened?" Turned out to be a sachet of tomato sauce being opened by a member of staff behind the bar. As I turned towards the bar my husband said, "You've got tomato sauce on your hair." Turned out I also had tomato sauce on my arms, and more annoyingly, on my white dress. Later, my husband said, "You've got three more spots on the back of your dress", and I'd walked through town with that on display. Even just now I've just felt something on my hair at the back which is obviously still tomato sauce.

The staff response to this wasn't great but they're all young and dealing with working in a weird world. Apologic, but no real acknowledgement of what you've just done to your customer. This one-off definitaly wouldn't stop me going again. But, the real issue is - who knew tomato sauce coming out of a sachet could travel about four feet?

But also, if people use a place regularly and don't have any problems would you feel okay about posting a poor review on Tripadvisor on the odd occasion that something goes wrong?

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Ohhok · 09/07/2021 22:56

Nope. Yabu. People need to know there’s risk of flying ketchup. Quite a few people have ketchup phobias apparently.

Clymene · 09/07/2021 22:57

You said it. Who knew?

memberofthewedding · 10/07/2021 02:20

I hope the staff offered to cover the cleaning bill for your dress. I would certainly insisting upon that before i wrote my review.

MouldyPotato · 10/07/2021 06:29

I wouldn't write a review mentioning ketchup incident if I usually go regularly and it's fine. It was a one off accident. If it turns out to be a pattern then I would.

HotelCaliforniaOnRepeat · 10/07/2021 06:29

Contact the manager to explain what happened. They shouldn't be using sauce behind the bar anyway.
Give them a chance.

MouldyPotato · 10/07/2021 06:30

Also if its a dry clean only dress I'd give them a chance to pay to put it right.

doyouneedtowean · 10/07/2021 06:31

YANBU. Accidents happen. I don’t think bad reviews should be written on one-off unlikely to happen again incidents.

BobMortimersPetOwl · 10/07/2021 06:35

I think a bad review is fair if you have a bad experience and management don't adequately rectify it. I don't like it when people leave a shit review having either not addressed any of the issues whilst on site (in which case I'm inclined to think they're not bad enough to mention online either) or having raised the issue and had it sorted there and then.

mogsrus · 10/07/2021 06:37

i have never used T/A. as I know from experience that some of it is absolute rubbish,i always send a private message to an establishment.

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 10/07/2021 06:44

It was an accident.

If you didn’t give them a chance or ask them for dry cleaning, etc at the time then you would be unreasonable to leave a bad review.

If next time you go, they splatter you with Mayo or brown sauce, then my answer might be different.

GaspGulpScream · 10/07/2021 06:44

I don't expect to go anywhere and get my clothes ruined. I'd have said something and expect them to put it right
Why not sort it out at the time???

LubaLuca · 10/07/2021 06:50

They apologised for the accident, I would take that as the acknowledgement of what happened. It wasn't sabotage, or even poor service really, just inexperienced staff unsure of how many ways they should say sorry to a ketchup-spattered customer.

ButDoYouAvocado · 10/07/2021 06:53

I don’t have a problem with things like that as long as they are apologetic etc. So for me it’s not the ketchup going everywhere - it’s unfortunate but shit happens - but more the staffs reaction afterwards. So if they didn’t give a shit I’d leave a bad review, if they were apologetic etc then I wouldn’t.

DragonflyFairy · 10/07/2021 07:12

Do you review it every time you go? Or have you reviewed it before?
If not, it seems a bit odd to leave a review about a one off incident in your regular without contacting them and giving them the chance to put it right.
And the real issue isnt that ketchup travels and gets everywhere, its that you don't feel their response was adequate - but you've already said it won't put you off going back so just be honest with them about what you want.

Lindaloo08 · 10/07/2021 07:58

It was an accident, they said sorry, what is it you want? Why would you even think of TA?

If the sauce had have gone on your husband would you take it this seriously or would you have laughed? I cannot see myself taking this as serious as you are, it's red sauce not red wine.

Glitterandmud · 10/07/2021 08:10

I would contact the management so they know there's an issue. Were you able to get te sauce stain out of your dress? Would you like them to cover the cost of cleaning/ replacing your dress? Let them know.

You seem to have handled it all with good grace, the next person they accidentally squirt might make a scene / be abusive towards the staff, the manager needs to know so they can stop the staff doing it.

newnortherner111 · 10/07/2021 08:41

Talk to the place first, and see what response you get. If you do place a review, be factual. I agree that others might be aggressive/ruder than you.

Royalbloo · 10/07/2021 08:44

Yeah I'd raise it with the manager and see what they do. A good manager will want to know and have an opportunity to put it right...

itsnotmeitsu · 10/07/2021 22:39

I think many people on this thread have overlooked the fact that I've said I'm not going to leave a review, bad or otherwise. I do like @Ohhoks response to my opening post Grin. @GaspGulpScream > In my post I show that I dealt with it at the time.

As it happens, it turned out that there were even more stains on the back of my dress than I knew about, but I used Vanish Gold and it all came out in the wash Smile.

@Lindaloo08 > Not sure I was taking it completely seriously, and not sure where my husband comes into the decision of how important [or not] it was?

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