Popular coffee houses like Tim Horton’s are often extremely busy. They have a set menu and you’re expected to quickly select from the offerings posted on the overhead displays. The only option for coffee drinks is usually the amount of sugar or cream/milk...
A few weeks ago, I called my optometrist’s office to confirm an upcoming appointment. An automated answering machine took the call instructing me to leave my name and number and someone would soon be in touch. Seven days later, I received the return phone call....
No one is perfect and service failures are likely to occur. When they do, the better the staff is trained and prepared to handle the service recovery, the better. Here’s a story which exemplifies good, efficient recovery from a service failure. I had ordered two...
A couple of weeks ago I met out-of-province friends at a downtown restaurant. My friend’s wife was first to order and asked for one of the specialty burgers but without chipotle. This particular burger normally came with chipotle. The waitress said this...
I used to host my websites and my clients’ websites on 1and1 (now called Ionos), a large web hosting company. Over the years the outsourced support deteriorated to a point where I moved all websites, to another provider. 1and1’s bad customer service...
