Our family celebrated Fathers' day early this year. We enjoyed a lunch buffet at Mandarin Orchard Singapore on 17 Jun 2010.
The food was average. We were told it was an international buffet, but we thought the varieties were rather limited.
We chose this venue cos it was a 1-for-1 promotion for DBS card members. When we called for the bill, the waitress dropped a bomb on us to say that kids between 2 to 4 years old was chargeable and the restaurant introduced the toddlers' cost 2 months ago. They were going to charge $17++ for Deborah, who ate only 2 pcs of biscuits, less than 2 slices of duck meat, half bowl of cream of chicken and a scoop of chocoloate ice-cream which was left unfinished. We were definitely not prepared to pay the cost. In the end, the restuarant manager waived the cost when we insisted that the person I spoke to from the Reservations dept was aware of my kids' age when I made the reservation and yet she did not make known the cost to me earlier.
Before we left, the table next to us received the same surprise. And they had 3 toddlers with them. I wondered whether they paid the cost.
Anyway, I'm glad we left the restuarant happy. Thank God for the restuarant manager.
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