A Tearoom Lover
User's reviews
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The Roswell Teahouse
Many Tearooms are labors of love created by Entrepreneurs with a passion for all things tea! However, people seem to forget that Tearooms are actually fully functioning Specialty Restaurants. Reservations are a necessity. If you are late, that is your fault. If you don't tell them the true number in your party, how can they make the correct individual amount of food? Have you ever stopped to consider that a typical tea tray consists of approximately 10-15 different petite sized food items per person? Or that it costs more to produce tea trays, then a regular luncheon menu, and that if you expect white glove service, that it will cost for this 'extra' service? Please remember that most Tearooms are small businesses, and the profit margin is only about 20%. Tearooms are unique and should offer a 'different' experience than a normal restaurant, but please stop to consider whether your expectations may be unreasonable. Some women want to arrive unannounced, take up a table for 3 hours sipping on a $4 bottomless pot of tea while writing Xmas cards. If it were your business, would it be professionally wise to allow those types of customers to make a 2-4 person service table into their personal kitchen table? Also, could you do so without raising your prices and/or putting yourself out of business? Try to think from the Owner's perspective; then, maybe you won't be so disappointed or unreasonably expectant of Tearooms and their offerings. Please don't allow romantic idealism to become the ruin of our top GA Tearooms. Thank you for your appreciated support!
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Tea Leaves and Thyme
Many Tearooms are labors of love created by Entrepreneurs with a passion for all things tea! However, people seem to forget that Tearooms are actually fully functioning Specialty Restaurants. Reservations are a necessity. If you are late, that is your fault. If you don't tell them the true number in your party, how can they make the correct individual amount of food? Have you ever stopped to consider that a typical tea tray consists of approximately 10-15 different petite sized food items per person? Or that it costs more to produce tea trays, then a regular luncheon menu, and that if you expect white glove service, that it will cost for this 'extra' service? Please remember that most Tearooms are small businesses, and the profit margin is only about 20%. Tearooms are unique and should offer a 'different' experience than a normal restaurant, but please stop to consider whether your expectations may be unreasonable. Some women want to arrive unannounced, take up a table for 3 hours sipping on a $4 bottomless pot of tea while writing Xmas cards. If it were your business, would it be professionally wise to allow those types of customers to make a 2-4 person service table into their personal kitchen table? Also, could you do so without raising your prices and/or putting yourself out of business? Try to think from the Owner's perspective; then, maybe you won't be so disappointed or unreasonably expectant of Tearooms and their offerings. Please don't allow romantic idealism to become the ruin of our top GA Tearooms. Thank you for your appreciated support!