Mouse Drops From Ceiling Onto Table At Food Republic, VivoCity
Disgusting! It seems like there are lots of mouse in Singapore. Previously we saw mouse drop from ceiling at McDonald outlet. Then today same thing happened at Food Republic at VivoCity.
A mouse was seen to have fallen from the ceiling of Food Republic at Vivocity on Oct 29 and diners who encountered the rodent were given a full refund of their dinner.
Several diners spotted the rodent at the Food Republic foodcourt, and Shan, Eric and Keith were amongst those who saw it.
BreadTalk, which runs the food court, has since sent a pest control company to contain the rodent situation.
Recounted the contributors:
“A rodent dropped from the ceiling of Food Republic @ Vivocity on 29 Oct 2008 at about 7.55pm.
“It landed on a table occupied by 8 patrons, right next to a hotpot.
“The rat appeared to be dead initially, so some of the affected patrons started taking pictures of it to “gather evidence” while others looked for Food Republic staff for assistance.
“But the rodent started moving shortly afterwards. It hid under a stack of trays first, and then ran off before anyone could catch it. ”
STOMP has contacted BreadTalk for comment and a spokesman said:
“On the 29th of October, after we were notified of the incident, the customers affected (8 of them) were compensated with a full refund of their dinner. We contacted them immediately to apologize for the unpleasant experience.
“We take this issue very seriously and want to public to know that we are doing everything we possibly can to ensure that such incidents have a lesser chance of reoccurrence.
“We currently conduct daily sanitation and bi-weekly atrium pest control treatment; these measures will be stepped up.
“The pest control company was called in on the same night, where the field biologists accessed the situation and lay traps.
“Tonight they will do an inspection on the ceiling boards and treat the entire food atrium to ensure and track down any rodent infestation.
“The building management has been notified on the incident, while we are unable to pinpoint exactly the cause of this; we have found out that it is a type of rodent found commonly in gardens.
“Where Vivocity Food republic is located, the area is open and it could have come from anywhere.
“An official apology letter to express our sincere apologies has been sent to our customers.”
The mouse just love Singapore isn’t it?
Their service at their Suntec Branch are really lousy, before you can finish the food, the service staff come over & wanted to remove your plate. The food sold there is also so-so only.
that’s bad!