Cravings Fine Food & Catering — Local services in Barrie

Cravings Fine Foods Fails to Show-up!

If your family event is important to you, then Cravings is not a trustworthy choice. Craving's failure to show up and deliver the dinner for our planed and confirmed Family Celebration was heartbreaking.

The worst possible scenario for any special event, is the caterer whom, you have worked with closely and are trusting to prepare and provide the meal as promised, fail to arrive! It is one thing to under deliver the quality of food expected, but inexcusable not to show up at all!

Cravings failed to uphold their professional responsibility to cater the celebration of our Mom’s 90th birthday as trusted. This was the first family gathering after almost 18 months of Covid restrictions and isolation and one where we wanted to celebrate the resilience of this amazing woman who lived alone the whole time!

The following timeline demonstrates the advanced and careful planning at our end and Cravings knowledge, and professional commitment to the celebration itself.

June 9th – Event Date Confirmed and Contract Signed. June 9th- 50% Deposit Made for Family Event. August 15th - Final numbers confirmed with Cravings. August 19th – Final Payment Made August 21st – Cravings fails to show for the event leaving guests waiting 2 hours for a dinner that never arrived. Phone calls were not returned on that day or since. August 23rd – Received a full refund.

Failure to Deliver or Failure of Character? Choosing not to follow through on a commitment happens, but choosing to avoid taking responsibility for your choice is worse. Leaving your client to suffer when you could have made other arrangements and not returning their distress calls, is unconscionable. Not only did our family suffer as a result of their choice, but Cravings hurt their professional colleagues by not referring business they did not want or could not manage. Colleagues who had all suffered with the restrictions of Covid and the direct impact on their businesses and the staff they employ.

4 weeks later we had a Family Wedding and a number of family gatherings over the week-end (all outside). There are 3 Caterers who did honour their commitment and provided outstanding service and scrumptious food.

Caterers you and your family can trust to show up! All of them travelled to accommodate our event in Simcoe County and restaurant owners/chefs who all travelled to the Simcoe County area to make the wedding weekend special.

The Boathouse Eatery, Midland provided amazing mouth- watering food for two events. A small intimate dinner for the immediate family of the bride and groom and a larger outdoor family gathering, with appetizers and sit down dinner. Amazing chef and staff. A Million Mouthfuls Catering -Newmarket delivered a delicious wedding BBQ. Chef and owner Anne-Marie went above and beyond and she showed up! Kivas Bakery and Restaurant, Toronto, delivered an appetizing Sunday Brunch. Travelled a distance to make this happen and showed up!

Choose your Caterer wisely and ask them if they have ever failed to deliver the meal and if so, how did they compensate their customer? How did they take responsibility for the damaged caused and what effort was made to "make things right"?

The question of it being a failure to deliver or the failure of character is often distinguished in how one takes responsibility for their choices and their...

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