Lakai Fully Flared Intro
It's just an intro to a skateboard video but wow! It's
beautiful and a great choice of accompanying musical score.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soWwa_Xwy7U&rel=1]
I would love to see a similar treatment for a climbing or
mountain biking video :)
Organic Olives and Olive Oil (Danforth & Jones)
I was walking home along the Danforth this afternoon and spotted
a tiny little shop on the East side of Jones just south of
Danforth. The sign was one of those printed vinyl banners with
grommets and rope, tied over whatever previous sign was still in
place. The banner simply said "Olives and Olive Oil". It sounded
intriguing and since I was in no hurry I detoured and went
inside.
It's a smallish retail store with shelves of olive oil in large
cans and a counter top with 5 or 6 stainless steel containers of
various black olives. The proprietor is Turkish and his family
still runs a farm in the old country that they've owned for many
generations. He directly imports the olives and wholesales them to
various locations around town. However, most retail outlets find
his organic olives too pricey after they apply their markup so he's
selling those from this little store.
I tasted a few of them and they were fantastic. I also tried
some of his olive oil and it was out of this world. Apparently it
takes about 4-5 kilos of olives to make one litre of olive oil.
Needless to say, the oil isn't cheap. About $16 for a litre. But
after you taste it you can easily justify the cost.
He has only been open for five weeks so I urge any of you that
live in the area to support his shop. The address is 585 A Jones
Avenue and the phone number is (416) 833-3410.
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2-4-1 Pizza Woes
I have been experiencing an ongoing customer service battle
with the 2-4-1 Pizza chain in Toronto that has gone from
inconvenient to amusing to frustrating to incredulous and back to
amusing again.
I've always liked their product. As chain pizza goes it is
consistently fresh and cooked exactly how I like it (thin crust and
well done). Above all it is tasty which is more than I can say for
that cardboard crap that Pizza Pizza pedals. Ordering delivery was
always an easy experience because they had my previous order
online. I could ask them to either re-enter that or tailor a new
order to my pleasing.
However, that all changed about a year ago when I was at my
local
pub with some friends and we decided to order a pizza.
McCarthy's is an awesome place and they don't mind if your
order food in but be sure to offer a slice to whomever is behind
the bar. As always I provided my mobile number to the 2-4-1
order representative and told her that the address was different
than what was on file since I was not at home. She noted the
one-time delivery address, hung up, and a delicious pizza arrived
40 minutes later.
Well, ever since then every time I call 2-4-1 I give them my
phone number and verify my home address and the first question is:
"Have you moved recently?"
I've probably ordered 20+ pizzas over the past year and I go
through the same thing every time. I explain to the person on the
other end of the line that the address on file is incorrect. When
they offer to change it for me I mention that every order taker
I've spoken to so far has asked the same thing and entered the new
information. Yet the next time I place an order the change does
not appear on screen.
Once I was put through to a customer service representative. I
explained the situation to her, gave her my phone number and guess
what? The correct address came up. But the very next pizza order
I placed with them had the incorrect pub address again.
Since I am in Information Technology I find this an intriguing
conundrum. I don't doubt for an instant that each person has
updated my record. But for some reason it's not persisting in
their system. I have asked several times for a phone number or
email address so that I can contact their I.T. department directly
to discuss this but they are not willing to divulge that
information.
For now I will continue to order from 2-4-1 because the product
outweighs the inconvenience. I just wonder how many other people
are experiencing the same bizarre situation.
For what its worth one of my favourite orders consists of two
pizzas with one having sun dried tomatoes, hot peppers and
pineapple and the other having green olives, feta cheese and sliced
tomatoes. Both thin crust and well done. MMmmmm.
2008/01/18: update
Tonight I ordered my usual from 2-4-1 Pizza and as is the custom
now I went through the convoluted process of describing to the
order taker why the address she had on file was not the correct
one. In typical fashion she said she would update my record so
that I wouldn't have to deal with this hassle again and I of course
told her that was a waste of her time.
After she had finished taking my delivery address and order she
said she'd entered the new info in the database anyway so it would
be fine for next time. So I asked her if she would indulge me for
a minute or two and log out and back into her system. Then enter
my number as if she was taking a new order from me. She said sure
and I heard the tapping of keys for a few seconds followed by
oh, Oh, OH My, well that is strange now isn't it?
So at least I feel better now knowing that they have seen first
hand what I"ve been complaining about all this time. She said she
would certainly escalate the matter with her helpdesk. So stay
tuned for the next update...