Aug 17 2011

Nothing like TGI Friday’s Normal Atmosphere

Category: Personal — ChrisM @ 6:07 pm

At Kiev Airport’s TGI Friday. Ordered Ultimate Mudslide cocktail (hey it is past 5pm somewhere in the world!), deep fried Mozerella (calories/fat don’t count in airports!) & brownie dessert. Customer service bad compared to Astana’s branch! Avoiding eye contact when waiting to place an order, drinks served in random order with some waiting a long time whilst new customers served very quickly. If this was a random restaurant in Kazakhstan I’d not be so surprised. Cocktail & cheese thingies arrived. Tasty. Waitress now talking to us at least.

3 Responses to “Nothing like TGI Friday’s Normal Atmosphere”

  1. Walton says:
    August 23rd, 2011 6:11 am

    I do have to say that the Friday’s in Moscow airport was just like the US. This was before the one in Astana opened. Considering that that was the first Friday’s I had been in since going behind the Iron Curtain, and considering I was in Domodedovo, it was so weird to have a waitress lean down, smile and say, “Hey, How are you? I’m Nastya!”

    Still not used to it, even back in the States, to be honest.

    • ChrisM says:
      August 25th, 2011 6:23 am

      If you removed the TGI branding, the service wasn’t too surprising, I’d just assumed that they would really emphasize their image when in new(ish) markets.

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    January 27th, 2012 10:28 pm

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