Vent of Hearing

Here, Enjoy our prepacked rubbish

They closed the Deli Bar in our office restaurant this week.

We used to be able to choose from a selection of breads and a varying set of food to go in them. It was slightly more expensive that going to a shop and getting a pre-packed sandwich, but I thought that you get what you pay for. You get choice, you see what goes it, and you could make odd combinations that would never been sold commercially.

And this week, its been replaced with prepacked sandwiches, most of which disappear after half an hour. And they are slightly more expensive than the deli that was slightly more expensive than the prepack sandwiches.

The reason is clear, it was too popular and didn't make enough money. Go down to the canteen and see a queue of five or six people for the deji bar and one, maybe two in other sections. Clearly, not enough people were having a cooked meal, nearly twice the cost of the deji bar sandwich.

At the same time, the resturant management have issued a survey. One of the questions was how often you visited the resturant. I have crossed out once a day, and replaced with never, writing the following at the side.

"Seen as you've removed the Deji Bar, I'll be bringing in my own food. Thanks for removing it, you've saved me money. I do wonder if this will be read, as the last survey I filled in indicated I only visited the resturant to eat at the Deji Bar. I also indicated I'd like a wider selection, but you don't seem to have listened to me."

p.s. once false alarm on the labour front so far this week. see journal tomorrow for more details.