Maybe you have heard the recent news about Chic-boy’s scandal over the Internet – a disgruntled customer who utters her regret after eating at one of her favorite dining spot in Timog, Quezon City. The scandal involves a letter addressed to the concerned enterprise with its author sequentially recount the events in her aspiration to show her disappointment to the former as it happened.
For several years we have witnessed several resto and dining haven scandals with the objective of destabilizing its sales, lowering incessant patronage and preventing its rise to fame. Sources of subversions may be direct or frequently indirectly employed towards the undermining of the establishment.
Chic-boy is one of the growing dining joints in the country. Their mouth-watering menu of delectable cuisines has tagged every Filipino’s thrilled palates. Joining the line of grilled pork and chicken dishes like that of Mang Inasal, Bacolod Chicken and Chicken Inasal with Mang Inasal presently rocketing in eminence among the crowd.
Before I share my discernment on this matter, I suggest reading the totality of the said author’s notes. Higad sa salad (courtesy of popularmanila.blogspot.com)
The photos, though limited in amount, can never be a basis for the claims. It can be authored, refashioned to a way the instigator wants it to be seen. As we all know the famous phrase, “a picture means a thousand words.”
The size of the “caterpillar” (cited frequently as “uod” by the writer) can be so overwhelming that it will make you wonder why Chic-boy’s chef overlooked its presence.
Regrettably, the customer who wrote this hate article has opened it to the social media where information (doesn’t matter either good or bad) will reach its targets as fast as possible. But it seems it has not yet reached the broadcasting media despite the viral widespread.
I cannot say that the dissatisfied food patron has high-jacked or planted the creepy-crawler and neither did the staff of Chic-boy fell short on their quality control. But soon enough this tittle-tattle will die-down as time goes by.
Will I ever eat at Chic-boy’s? Of course I will. Still as a customer, I have the freedom to choose which food establishment I will visit according to my own taste and need. In spite of everything, we have consumer rights to look forward to if we suffer the same fate.
Once you decide to buy someone else’s cooking you are putting your trust on their hands. Only if you cook your own food will you be sure of the quality of what you are eating.
