Review Pelanggan untuk Ganbatte Japanese Buffet

Ganbatte 

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Order : All you can eat shabu shabu. Price :180k 

tl;dr : Very good decor and side dish selection. Horrible quality of beef slices. Mediocre overall flavor of side dishes. Avoid the bolognese pasta at all cost.

Positive:
In terms of decor, this place has definitely got it right and checks all boxes for a Japanese dining establishment. 2 different kinds of meat ( lean, fatty) and you can request for a bowl of mixed vegetables to go along with your shabu shabu. Only 2 types of soups were available during my visit ( golden soup or shoyu) and it was decent. Nothing out of the ordinary that will mask the flavor of the beef. Not only that, you also get to taste all the fried goodies ( tempura, chicken karaage, chicken wings), as well as more than 10 different kinds of sushi rolls. In terms of side dishes that’s offered here, I am able to give this place a thumbs up! Oh did you know that they have a cotton candy machine too? Was too full to try it unfortunately.

Not so positive:
1. Extremely tough lean beef and the same thing can also be said for the fatty beef as well. Clear indication that this is where corners are cut. Hard to believe when compared to its competitor that’s offering a buffet menu that’s Rp 32k cheaper and better quality of beef slices and wider variety of side dishes.

2. Fried foods: are no longer crispy when I tried it ( around 1:30pm). I suggest not displaying all the fried food and making it made-to-order for the time being before there’s a higher customer traffic. When a restaurant is full of customers, the fried items will only be on display for 15-20 minutes at a time and will always be crispy. You should be displaying all your sushi rolls on your table, instead of having it made-to-order.

3. Waitresses : This is a very common problem that’s seen in many restaurants/workplace. When your waitresses are too used to extended periods of low customer traffic in the restaurants, they will get lazy and slipshod in their work. They expect to get paid the same amount of money for the unusually low amount of work they’re currently doing. So, if there’s an unexpected spike in customers, they won’t be able to meet up with the demand. 3 food bloggers came (including me) on a Sunday and they weren’t able to do something basic as opening the wrapped-up sauce bowls for us. One of us had to ask them to fill up the ice bowl, even though it’s already 1pm in the afternoon.

Solution : Monitor customer traffic and don’t overstaff. Replace unmotivated waitresses immediately (infectious!).

4. Spaghetti Bolognese : Too sweet! Just get rid of this item off the menu.