Bad attitude ruins a lifelong relationship with a once great company. You are only as good as your last salomie.

It really saddens me to write this as I am a long time - nearly forty years - customer of Mariams and know how much time and effort they have spent developing their brand. However there is no excuse for the experience a had last Wednesday when I drove out of my way to order a steak salomie from Mariams in Athlone. Firstly there were almost no drinks on offer - just a few tins of fruit juice and no Cokes whatsoever. I was the only customer in the place however my salomie took way too long to appear. The manageress brought the salomie to my table in a foam container. I wanted to eat it at the table inside the restaurant, so I asked for some cutlery. There was none - not even a s****. I asked for a plastic fork and was told the there weren't any of those either. The manageress was less than useless so I went looking for a plastic fork myself - eventually finding one at the nearby Spar. On returning to Mariams, I opened my salomie to see that the salad that is usually on top of the meat was not there. I asked the manageress to please rectify this which she did highly reluctantly. I also noticed that the roti had been microwaved - it was hard around the edges and I heard the unmistakable ding of a microwave. All in all a really unpleasent experience made worse by the attitude of this manageress. As I said, for nearly forty years I have been cosistantly surprised my the consistancy of Mariam's food and have eaten dozens and dozens of their delicious salomies. This experience has left a very bad taste in my mouth and I most certainly will not be visiting this establishment ever again.