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2011-05-27
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I was on leave in the morning (27 May 2011), and before returning to the office in the afternoon, I came here for lunch at about 12 noon.Agreed with Manko below, there is a lot to be improved for service. I don't know whether this place is meant to be a restaurant" or a 茶餐廳. When I arrived, no one ushered me to a table. I walked in and found a table for myself. No one cared about my existence, though a lots of waitresses (I think there should be 5 to 6 waitresses, serving a not-very-large r
Agreed with Manko below, there is a lot to be improved for service. I don't know whether this place is meant to be a restaurant" or a 茶餐廳. When I arrived, no one ushered me to a table. I walked in and found a table for myself. No one cared about my existence, though a lots of waitresses (I think there should be 5 to 6 waitresses, serving a not-very-large restaurant which was only half full when I arrived) were walking around, apparently busy at something but I could not understand what they were busy at. It took sometimes before I stopped one of those walking-around-waitresses to take order from me, despite I kept waving my hand.
A few tables were set outside the main dinning area. Patrons over there were just left on their own. A gentleman, after sat down with a woman for a while, walked to the cashier to place his order direct as no one seemed to care about their existence, was told to return to his table. Another table of patrons of four, waved at the female receptionist next to their table, asking her to take orders. Yet, the female receptionist just looked at them, doing nothing. Then she walked inside the dinning area to ask someone else to take orders. Then she walked out, returning to her position and resumed her job as a receptionist again. It takes another 5 or 10 minutes for someone to take orders from that table.
Regarding food, there were three types of sets lunch. The price were about $40. I ordered 常餐B instead, like 澳牛, which consisted of 义燒湯意, toast, ham and 炒蛋, which came with a hot drink ($3 additional for cold drink). The set costed me $32. 义燒湯意 was horrible. The soup is tastless. The spaghetti was overcooked, and was too soggy. Five small pieces of 义燒 which were quite good in fact. The egg is completely dried. The ham was ordinary and normal. The toast was disappointing, cold and soggy. No particular comment on coffee, as one can't expect much from Maxim.
I suddenly realised that in other Maxim's fast food restaurants, this set is called 經典早餐. The only differences are 經典早餐 provides you with bread with butter, whereas 常餐B provides you with "toast" with butter. The portion of spaghetti in 常餐B is slightly bigger. However, the former only costs me $21 (and $19 only if you have coupon) whereas the latter costs me $32.
I don't think I will come to this place again.
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