Very disappointing experience. I went in intending to order breakfast & stood at the entrance waiting to be seated for at least five minutes. During that time, not a single staff member acknowledged my presence or even greeted me.
After a while, I wasn't even interested in ordering anymore-I simply wanted to see how long it would take for someone to notice I was there. No one did. It was only when a couple with two children in a stroller walked in that a staff member immediately came to the door. The family then had to point out that I had been waiting there first.
Being completely ignored while other customers were attended to immediately was frustrating & made me feel unwelcome. A simple greeting or acknowledgment would have made all the difference. Sadly, I left without ordering & won't be returning.
I recently visited your specific location not long ago with my partner, who can only enjoy coffee if it is decaffeinated.
We ordered & made sure to ask that his coffee be decaf.
The waitress proceeded to go behind the counter, enter our orders & eventually prepared to bring us our coffee.
My coffee was visibly fresh & piping hot. My partners was cold & tasted like it had been sitting for too long & was also the little bit left from bottom of the pot. Yes, I tasted it after my partner took his initial sip & asked me if it was just him, or if it was actually that bad.
The issue I have here is a human based one.
Because the fact is, we flagged down the waitress to ask that he get a new one, & I also asked her if it was the end of the pot that had been sitting there. & she said that it was in fact the bottom of the pot coffee that had been sitting for who knows how long. She said'bin c'est comme ça!' expecting him to drink it
Human to human, why would she choose to serve someone this item, knowing it is no longer good & should have been discarded of?
Not to mention, a person who happens to be working in a tip for good service type environment?
I don't know this waitress personally, but I'd like to believe that if she presented herself somewhere as a paying customer, that she would appreciate receiving the ordered option hot & fresh.
I have a hard time believing that if she was blatantly told that, yeah, its stale & the employee chose to serve it anyways, that she'd just be okay with that, would pay for it & may choose to consume it or just leave it on the table. Cause things aren't expensive enough these days, & you should just watch the item you're paying for, but not actually enjoy it since you won't be drinking cold stale pot bottom leftover.
Don't get me wrong, we all know there are less decaf drinkers. Yet that isn't the subject & should not be an excuse to chose to serve other humans stale cold coffee, cause it's just a form of general disrespect. It's actually gross. It also tarnishes the reputation of the business who chose to employ you, hoping you were the right fit to help the business thrive.
The reason I'm choosing to post this review today, is because my partner happened to find himself at McDonald's today around 1pm, & when he ordered his decaf coffee, he got served a cold stale bottom of pot.
& when he asked for a new hot one, the employee chose to lie to his face & tell him that he can't & won't make another pot of decaf, because they only do that in the morning.
I don't know about you, but I don't think any McDonald's on the entire globe has any end time for when they make fresh coffee, decaf or not.
There are selected breakfast items that end at 11am, sure! But decaf coffee isn't one.
& so he called me to have a laugh, & it actually annoyed me for him & brought us back to our experience here at this Allo Mon Coco breakfast date we recently had.
People have bad or off days, sure. Nothing is perfect, we know.
But if you're just not up to doing the job you accepted to do, don't take it upon yourself to show up & ruin other people's day, especially when they are literally paying for it.
You know it's been sitting there forever, & you know you wouldn't accept being served that crap, so choose to do better & not put someone else through it. Just make a new damn pot.
Heck the table who came in after us also wanted decaf, & had we not asked her to make a new pot, what was she going to tell that table?
& yes. It is that deep.
Because most want to sit around & act like things happen & nobody does anything about them, so just accept it, as though turning bad things into the comfortable norm is okay.
Yet life gave every single one of us the ability to make choices. At the end of the day, we can all choose to do better, behave better & even if not everyone can or wants to love one another, we can at least show decency & mutual respect towards one another.
Other than that, the new artisan sausage is insanely delicious!Your bathrooms need help
Food was average, which isn't a bad thing for breakfast. But the service was pretty slow even though the place started emptying out as we were sitting down. The biggest negative though was the food still attached to the spoon that they put in my coffee before bringing it to the table. Thank goodness I looked when I pulled it out to add milk. Don't think we'll be going back - there are so many good places for breakfast nearby.
We recently went back to Allo Mon Coco for breakfast & noticed quite a few changes. The space has been renovated with a more open?concept layout, which definitely makes it feel larger & brighter. The décor itself isn't particularly memorable, but the place does look cleaner & more spacious than before.
The food has changed slightly since our previous visits. It's still good overall, just not as impressive as it used to be, so our excitement wasn't quite the same this time around. Service was generally good, though a couple of employees didn't seem especially enthusiastic or happy to be serving customers.
All in all, it's still a decent spot & we'd consider going back, but it's no longer our automatic first choice for breakfast.
