Killing Your Customers

Changkat Bukit Bintang in Kuala Lumpur has become increasingly busy over the past couple of years. As the street get more bars, clubs and restaurants, traffic is also picking up badly.

Unfortunately it would appear that most people find it impossible to walk a few hundred meters, but instead have to park right outside whatever venue they have decided to visit. As a result of this, and the valet parking attendants, it has become popular to park along one side of the street, leaving even less room for cars and pedestrians.

To top this of, some of the owners of the various venues seem to think that the sidewalk belong exclusively to them and their customers. Walking along the street at night it is obvious that some owners show more consideration to the general public than others. I have for example never seen The Magnificent Fish & Chips, Green Man or Yoko's block the sidewalk.

The worst owner by far would appear to be Werner (who unfortunately also by far operates the most venues). He seem to think that the sidewalk outside El cerdo is his private car park (so it should be renamed to "El aparcamiento"):



Walking past his place is always downright dangerous, because in order to pass, one will have to walk on the already extremely crowded street where cars try to squeeze past each other.

I really don't understand this attitude. Is pleasing two or three lazy fucks really so important for Werner that is quite OK risking the life and limbs of every other potential customer. It can be no surprise for readers of this blog, that I have a serious dislike of any food and beverage outlet who piss on their customers, but pissing on potential customers seem even more far fetched. In this case I am fortunately able to predict their attitude without ever spending a single Ringgit at his place. I have never visited any of Werner's places and until he learn to show more consideration for potential customers I most definitely will not.

Werner is by far the worst. He is however not alone. Frangi Pani is also pretty bad even though they are one of the few places that actually have space to park a few cars without blocking the sidewalk.

Lately it has become increasingly popular to put tables and chairs on the sidewalk in the evening. In general this is a pretty good idea, as it is quite nice to sit outside in the evening when the temperature goes down. Unfortunately since cars are parked on the street making it so narrow that two cars have a hard time passing each other, and while this is so, putting chairs and tables on the sidewalk only serves to make it an extremely dangerous exercise to walk through the street at night.

I can only appeal to the owners of the venues in Changkat Bukit Bintang to show a little more consideration for the people who are after all their potential customers, and appeal to the "crowd" to remind the owners (by avoiding the inconsiderate places) if they are too thick to work it out by themselves.