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‘Go-Jek drivers must wait outside’: Sign at Canggu Italian restaurant sparks outrage
An Italian restaurant in Bali’s hip
Canggu area has been facing the wrath
of
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restaurant has gone viral, asking drivers
from the Indonesian app, Go-Jek to wait
outside.
While Go-Jek is best known for its ride-
hailing feature, the app offers a range of
other services including Go-Food,
where customers can order food
delivery from their pick of restaurants.
La Casetta, located in Umalas, has
been flooded with angry online reviews
as backlash for the sign. Here’s a
translation of the controversial notice for
all the non-Indonesian speakers out
there:
Go-Jek Drivers,
Please wait outside of the restaurant
after putting in your order at the
cashier.
Thank you,
La Casetta
Commentators have tagged the sign as
discriminatory—an issue that has been
known to earn viral-levels of attention in
Indonesia, but usually with domestic
workers. (Remember the picture of the
domestic worker sadly watching on as
the family she’s working for eats without
her?)
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Go-Jek drivers are people too, who are
giving the restaurant money, and should
not be treated as second-rate citizens,
forced to wait outside, comments like
these (translated from Indonesian) are
arguing:
#STOPDISCRIMINATION
Ojol (online motorcycle taxi drivers) are
also human.
The drivers are not begging, or
beggars. They are also paying. What’s
the difference with them and other
customers? They are also paying
rupiah.
The negative comments prompted a
response from the restaurant’s
management, which appears to have
posted an apology for the sign on their
Facebook page.
However, it seems the apology post
inadvertently invited even more
negative comments and the restaurant
now appears to have deactivated their
Facebook page since the incident.
A screenshot of the apology was
published by the Tribun News Network
before the Facebook page went dark.
JL. Pantai Brawa No 13 B,
Canggu Boutique Villa ( Temu Cafe), Near
Macan Cafe
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Hotline : +62 813-2824-1390
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“We apologize for any inconvenience.
We did not intend to discriminate
against any of our customers. But
beforehand there had also been an
inconvenience caused by a driver.”
The apology continued that their
restaurant is small and that it was the
staff that put up the sign.
“As for the writing that has caused
discomfort, it was in fact, from the
initiative of the staff. We apologize if
there is anything that causes
discomfort.
“We want to explain that our restaurant
is small, with limited space. Kitchen and
staff will take longer to prepare all
orders for customers, whether to be
eaten here, takeaway, or ordered from
an online motorcycle taxi driver, when
the restaurant has a lot of orders.
“And due to space constraints, we
intend to use a queue number system
when the restaurant is busy. When an
order is finished, our wait staff will
deliver it to where the drivers are
waiting.
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NEW IN THE GU: BOTANIK

dumplings and fresh spring rolls with

coriander sprinkled over everything.
Can we just say: YUM!

For anyone with a healthy bao

obsession (aka our entire team), can
we kindly recommend that you get
the crispy pork belly bun in your
belly - ASAP. The peking duck
counterpart with hoisin sauce had us
lickin’ our fingers and ordering
seconds with our mouths still full. As
we ate our way through the menu,
our hunger only grew– that pork loin
banh mi is going down in history as
our favourite ever, and the
Vietnamese dumplings just
disappeared off the plates in record
time.

It’s no secret that us GU Girls are For those of you on a vegetarian

obsessed with all things Vietnamese
(or, let’s be honest, all things edible..),
so you can bet were excited to finally
welcome the newest Seminyak-to-
Canggu addition to the eat street that
Tanah Barak has transformed into.
Being a long-time Yak favourite of ours,
you can imagine how we felt about
Saigon Street Bali opening it’s doors
right here in the heart of the Gu.
Welcome (finally!) Saigon Street
Canggu!!
Speaking of hearts, this latest addition
to our weekly food repertoire definitely
left a permanent banh-mi-shaped mark
on ours. You can’t really go wrong with
a menu full of authentic flavours, a
selection of classic Vietnamese dishes,
steamy phos, several types of
diet, you’ll be happy to know that the
Dalat pumpkin and mushroom curry is
everything you’ve ever wished for out of
a veg main course: full of flavour and
hearty enough to fill the hungriest of
bellies. And the rest of you vegans out
there - Saigon Street has you covered
on that front too, with plenty of plant-
based items to keep everyone happy.
And did we already mention the drinks
menu? Light, refreshing and hitting all
the right buttons; Good Morning
Vietnam is the bloody mary option to
cure the worst of your Old Man’s
hangovers, and if that won’t rehydrate
you, then the Frozen Coconut Daiquiri
will. For true lovers of Vietnamese
flavours, you’ll not get over the chilli-
infused Bang Bang. If alcohol isn’t in
your cup of tea, then make sure that the
Vietnamese coffee is – served with
condensed milk AND vanilla ice cream,
you won’t want to share this so make
sure you order one for everyone!
As if all that wasn’t enough of a reason
to go back, the dessert menu boasts
sweet fried dumplings with salted
caramel, and in our books that is as
valid an excuse to make Saigon Street
one of regular go-tos for a rice-filled
feed, with a rice field view. 10/10 will
Saigon again!
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“We hope all customers and drivers
can understand and we soon hope to
provide a larger space. For awhile,
please understand and cooperate
together. We will always try our best to
find the best solution for us, and all of
our customers, no exceptions.”
UPDATE (June 9): La Casetta has
responded to Coconuts Bali‘s request
for comment, with the following
statement.
We are shocked and sad about what is
happening and how the whole story
got viral Indonesia wide spreading a
message of discrimination that is very
far from our philosophy.
It was never ever our intention to
discriminate against somebody and we
feel very sorry that the drivers got
offended!
We are a small restaurant and our
busy time is mostly in the evening.
Often it happens that all the tables are
occupied and there are 7 Go Jek
drivers at the same time in front of the
bar waiting for the deliveries which
makes is hard for our team to move
and not possible for our other
customers to reach the bar.
This difficulty made us arrange a
meeting with all the team to find a
solution and we made a system for the
drivers to make everybody’s work
easier by giving them a number after
they placed the order and bringing the
food to them when it’s ready.
Of course this system is only for busy
days when there is no space inside the
restaurant. All the drivers were totally
fine with the system and it made our
work in the restaurant way easier.
The writing that caused all the publicity
was made by one of our team
members without any approval from
the management thinking that it was
helpful to manage the situation that we
had already found a solution for. Of
course not agreeing on the message
as soon as we saw the sign we directly
removed it shortly after it was put in
the restaurant but it was already too
late and it had gone viral
What was written and the way it was
written was unacceptable and we
understand that the drivers feel
offended and deeply apologize!
In our statement in the Tribun we also
mentioned an incident that happened
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last week with one Go Jek driver who
started to scream inside the restaurant
saying bad words because he was
upset about the food taking too long. In
the public statement we asked sorry to
the drivers that sometimes the food
takes some time but the philosophy of
our restaurant is to provide fresh food,
not fast food that sometimes takes a
while to prepare. We totally respect all
the drivers and their work but we also
want us and our work to be respected.
We and our team are doing our job
same like the drivers do theirs and we
have to make it easy for everybody.
We will do our best to provide a sitting
area for the drivers for busy days in the
future and of corse drivers can enter
the restaurant as they always could
just on busy days we ask for
cooperation and to please wait for the
food in the outside area as in all the
other small restaurants as well.
We hope the drivers will except our
apology for the writing!
Editor’s Note: Statement has been
edited for clarity.
(coconuts.co)
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Cafe
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