Sour Experience At Wanna Eat, Cebu
Doi had been telling me about this nice place to chill out at IT Park, Cebu called Wanna Eat. She said the place offers good food at a decent price, the place is neat and they have free wi-fi connection. I said that definitely is a good place for bloggers and freelancers like us to chill. We went there after our short stop at SM and ordered Pork Belly, she said its yummy and recommended that I try it. It was my first time there and I ended up ordering it.
The food came, we ate and we started working. We did not use our battery chargers since our battery was full, a hundred percent full. Ed arrived and ordered burger and spaghetti while Doi and I ordered Tacos. Our battery went down to 30% and we started using our chargers, this was around 45 minutes before 11 PM. 30 minutes or so after this man came to us and said that they charge customers who charge their laptop batteries and thats 30 PHP per 30 minutes, so thats 1 PHP per minute.
I was disappointed and I found it rather rude that he approached us about 30 minutes after we started using it. I mean if its company policy they should have some signage informing the customers of this and that. It did not matter if you order food the minute that charger of yours hit their socket the countdown begins. Doi said at Coffifi the charge was 20 PHP per hour and there’s a huge sign inside the coffee shop informing customers of this policy, Wanna Eat Cebu does not have that. That’s a real bummer!
Blimey! I have been to several coffee shops in Cebu and none of them charged me for charging my laptop batteries. I spent almost every day during the summer of 2008 at Starbucks IT Park and never was there a fuss about me using their socket. It was a shame that Wanna Eat Cebu would have what I think a ridiculous policy. My biggest disappointment was that they didn’t inform us well ahead of time. They saw us using our laptops for two hours they could have approached us and informed us …. common sense would have told them that eventually the batteries of their laptops would ran out soon and they’d start charging. Don’t tell me they were busy … for crying out loud only two tables were occupied and there are plenty of them at the counter.
My first experience at Wanna Eat was a disappointment and here I thought I’d be chilling there from now on, bad idea. Stick with Starbucks Weng, they have the best signature hot choco.
i’d rather stick to my own favorite hangout place. and that is
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Comment by fetus — August 3, 2010 @ 8:52 am
I agree about Starbucks. They don’t mind if you charge your laptop even for the whole day. Signature hot choco is the best!The new coffee jelly is also good!
Comment by Novee — August 3, 2010 @ 3:50 pm
yeah, makatagam na ang Wanna Eat. Don’t want to go back there na. strike 2 na sila. super inconsistent with their policies. sayang, i like their store pa naman. but they don’t value their customers that much.
Fetus, where’s ur fave hangout place? maybe we can crash there too!
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Comment by doi — August 3, 2010 @ 3:52 pm
Novs! musta? Never thought you have a blog too … I so loooooove Signature Hot Choco as in! Link ex? let me know!
Comment by My Pink Shoelace — August 3, 2010 @ 3:58 pm
Not to mention the so called “boss” hid when she figured we might be up to … “confronting her”. Oh well … sige nlng.
Comment by My Pink Shoelace — August 3, 2010 @ 4:00 pm
Hi weng, I’m done with my post. But I’ll proofread it tomorrow.
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Comment by Ed — August 3, 2010 @ 6:17 pm
Look forward to reading it
I stand by what I posted … it was a very sour experience the kind that leaves a bad feeling on your mouth.
Comment by My Pink Shoelace — August 3, 2010 @ 6:52 pm
done with my post!
was doing my best not to be destructive.
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Comment by Mark — August 31, 2010 @ 3:26 pm