A family restaurant in Chaudière-Appalaches is being talked about for the wrong reasons on social networks.
La Grille, a restaurant-pub in Saint-Prosper, saw photos of its menu land on the Facebook page “Spotted Service de marde” on Monday, and the numerous French errors found there sparked several hundred comments .
“Cornicon”, “spagethie”, “cheese stick”, “mac n chess”, “onion”, “fondue Chinoise”, “broccolie”, “champinion”, or “Cèsar salad” are just some of the many spelling errors that can be read on the printed menu given to restaurant customers.
Added to this are several tuning errors as well as some missing accents.
On Facebook, many Internet users decried the situation, finding it difficult to explain how so many errors in basic French could have slipped into the menu given to customers. Others, for their part, trivialized the whole thing, maintaining that the quality of the food and the service was much more important than the level of French found on the menu.
One thing is certain, the subject caused a lot of noise on the Internet: the publication generated more than 800 comments and a thousand reactions, in addition to being shared nearly sixty times.
Several online errors as well
However, it is not just the printed menu that contains several errors. Indeed, La Grille’s website and publications on social networks are also riddled with mistakes.
A promotional image posted to Facebook on November 7 reads “Delicious pizza. 2 for 1 on all our 12” pizzas on Thursdays.
Three days earlier, a lunch menu posted on Facebook mentioned an “onion ring”, “a butcher of Mac’n cheese”, a “basil pesto shrimp” and a plate of “6 chicken wings”.
On November 2, an advertisement reminded us that every Sunday, “children eat for free.”
Across the posts on Facebook and Instagram, there are a very large number of spelling and agreement errors, just like on the restaurant’s website.
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The restaurateur wants to correct the situation
Reached by telephone, the owner of La Grille restaurant, Louis Robert, confirmed that it was not a marketing strategy to boost the popularity of his establishment.
The restaurateur, who is dyslexic, admitted to us that he designed this menu practically alone. He claims to have had a few employees reread it, but nothing more.
Mr. Robert, who bought the restaurant in January 2020, was hit hard by the pandemic and explains that he could not afford to pay someone specifically to proofread his menu which he completely redid last summer.
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Attendance at the establishment has fallen by 40% since 2019, he claims.
“People have changed their lifestyle,” says Louis Robert.
The latter acknowledges “occasionally” receiving comments from customers regarding French errors in his menu. He also hired a new assistant on Monday, one of whose tasks will be to go through the entire menu to correct mistakes.
“We’re going to be a little more on the lookout,” he promises. We are heading in the right direction.”
The most recent Facebook publication, dated Wednesday, also shows an improvement, since the number of errors has dropped significantly, although a few remain.
The revised and corrected menu should appear by the end of November, assures the restaurateur.
