Yesterday afternoon after lepaking at Naza's motor showroom my sons and I drove to Ikea beside The Curve to have meatballs at the Ikea diner. The meatballs as usual were good. (Almost as good as the ones we make at home.)
It was Sunday and there were plenty of people around, as usual. Ikea is a great place to shop. Everything is just perfectly organised. Well almost perfect. The diner area (cafeteria) was a terrible mess. It was not Ikea's fault. It was our own local folks who were messing up the place. We took some pictures.
The lone Nepali table cleaning guy was totally swamped. Here are pictures of the place where you stack up the dirty plates. Trash everywhere. That is a chicken bone on the floor. The place was also smelling meaning the trash had been sitting there for some time.
There was also a problem in the toilet, it was backed up and so the Bangla guy had cordoned off part of the toilet area. Toilet water everywhere and backing up. You can see it here.
I hope the "gods of Ikea" will solve this matter in their usual scientific manner. The worshipful company of the faithful (like me) will continue to make their pilgrimages there.
6 comments:
salam bro,
not been there for a while, but surprised to know how 'unswedish' it has become that sunday.
the toilet issue may have something to do with the building owners themselves. ikea should flex their anchor tenant status to make sure that the overflowing urinals (yuck!!) gets resolved.
my point is, no matter who or what your beliefs are, the 'system' overcomes it. we have a looong way to go. super clean, efficient swede outlet eventually succumbs to the lowest common denominator of values - a typical malaysian middle class consumer, probably kiasu too.
but what's new? have you checked out the public toilets in putrajaya? and the makan areas in the office buildings.
much worse i think. contoh: dept of environment putrajaya presint 2grnd floor toilet and makan area putrajaya...yep, its the 'dept of environment'. enough said.
slm.
IKEA should outsource its food outlet to Mamak
Salleh Telegu
Hahahaha i think the topic is not Ikea per se.it is about continous pilgrimage of the believer of a perfect system. Gotcha!
hehe! ..'solve matter in scientific way'
the other way, is to pray the mess goes away, God willing, all goes well
The current Ikea store have become too and they're taking their lazy steps to build new one here in Malaysia. I mean, even people from Ipoh come down here just to go to Ikea. Come on... tak buat market research ke?
6995 says,
Malaysian in general regarded ourselves as 'tuan'. When we go makan anywhere we expect full service including cleaning up. Cleaning up are meant for servant, tealady and whatever we learnt about cleaning up our lunch during school are meant to be left at school and not to be practised after school.
Even the 'God of Ikea' would not be able to change that mentality so ingrained in our grey matters. Let me suggest to the God of Ikea to introduce discount voucher or more free coffee whenever the patrons clean up their food from the table to designated area. Just get another Nepali to standby and give out the discount vouchers when the cleaning up are done. Suggest also the cashier to hand out reusable table towel or papers for patron to 'lap' the table lar..
There are simply too many foreign workers at low end job simply because 'tuan tuan ' cannot bring ourselves down to clean up our mess. The irony is whenever we go overseas to the developed countries suddenly we can do it and queue up to throw our mess out...
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