点评:While the ice cream itself was very good, we had a very awkward and uncomfortable experience. My 10-year-old ordered sprinkles on his ice cream, and was told that the sprinkles were at the end of the counter. I didn’t think much of it honestly- I figured they added them for you later at the register. I was ordering my cone and paying when a different employee who was not helping us shouted at my 10-year-old “NO! DON’T PUT THE SPOON BACK!” Startled, I looked up to see my kiddo with his waffle cone in one hand, using a self-serve sprinkles station they had set up at the end of the counter. It was a tray filled with cups of sprinkles and candy, and he was trying to very carefully add sprinkles to his ice cream. He was just as surprised as I was to hear her shouting. She ran over and snatched the spoon away. Confused, I asked what the problem was and she said in a very exasperated tone that the spoon had touched his ice cream- which she claimed he had already licked- and now she was going to have to throw away all of the sprinkles and wash the spoon. I apologized and fumbled with my cone and credit card trying to pay and help at the same time. She said he could choose any of the other candy available on the tray. Still a bit confused as to what was happening, my son then tried to add gummy bears with the long wooden tongs they had provided for the task which was nearly impossible to do without touching the ice cream. As I was trying ting to assist, she said it would be easier if we just dumped the candy on the metal tray in front of the candy station and used our fingers to add it to his cone? That seemed like a very strange and even less sanitary way of doing it?
It was very awkward and off-putting, to be honest. I definitely understand why you couldn’t allow a serving spoon to touch someone’s ice cream, but I was left wondering why in the world they would have a self-serve candy station in the first place? Especially given the fact that covid is still spreading? Surely he wasn’t the first person to fumble the sprinkles spoon?
I regret that I didn’t notice the station set-up as I was distracted with the rest of our order and paying. Otherwise I would have definitely stepped in to help before he got started on his own. He was just trying to be self-sufficient and do as instructed. He felt terrible as he was trying so hard to be careful and not spill any candy, and was then loudly accused of contaminating the sprinkles. Perhaps the employee could have shown him a little grace. Knowing the sprinkles were going to have to be replaced, she could have let him finish and then quietly replaced it. I’d be happy to buy you all a new tub of sprinkles to replace the ones he tarnished.
A couple other notes- my son’s waffle cone came with a paper sleeve and my waffle cone did not. Mine quickly fell apart after leaving the shop and left me with more mess than anything. My son ended up giving me his cone sleeve to try to hold my cone together. I had also ordered a cold brew with sweet cream for my husband. The sweet cream was nice but the cold brew itself was very watered-down.
Overall it was a very confusing and disappointing (and for my kiddo, humiliating) experience. We will get our Lopez Island Creamery ice cream elsewhere next time.
翻译:虽然冰淇淋本身非常好,但我们的体验非常尴尬和不舒服。我 10 岁的孩子点了洒在他的冰淇淋上,并被告知洒在柜台的尽头。老实说,我没想太多——我想他们稍后会在收银台为你添加它们。当另一个没有帮助我们的员工对我 10 岁的孩子大喊“不!不要把勺子放回去!”我吓了一跳,抬头看到我的孩子一只手拿着他的华夫蛋筒,使用他们在柜台尽头设置的自助洒水站。这是一个托盘,里面装满了糖屑和糖果杯,他正小心翼翼地往冰淇淋里加糖屑。听到她的喊叫,他和我一样感到惊讶。她跑过去把勺子抢走了。我很困惑,问出了什么问题,她用一种非常恼怒的语气说勺子碰到了他的冰淇淋——她说他已经舔过冰淇淋了——现在她不得不扔掉所有的洒水并清洗冰淇淋勺子。我道歉并摸索着我的锥体和信用卡试图同时支付和帮助。她说他可以选择托盘上的任何其他糖果。对于发生的事情仍然有点困惑,我的儿子然后试图用他们为这项任务提供的长木钳添加小熊软糖,如果不接触冰淇淋几乎不可能做到这一点。当我试图帮忙时,她说如果我们把糖果倒在糖果站前面的金属托盘上,然后用手指把它加到他的甜筒里会更容易吗?这似乎是一种非常奇怪而且更不卫生的做法?
老实说,这非常尴尬和令人反感。我完全理解为什么你不能让勺子接触别人的冰淇淋,但我想知道为什么他们首先要有一个自助糖果站?特别是考虑到 covid 仍在传播的事实?他肯定不是第一个弄乱勺子的人吧?
很遗憾我没有注意到车站的设置,因为我被剩下的订单和付款分散了注意力。否则我肯定会在他自己开始之前介入帮助。他只是想自给自足,按照指示去做。他感觉很糟糕,因为他非常努力地小心翼翼地不洒出任何糖果,然后被大声指责污染了糖果。或许员工本可以对他表现出一点优雅。知道洒水器将不得不更换,她本可以让他完成,然后悄悄地更换它。我很乐意给你们买一桶新的洒水器来代替他弄脏的洒水器。
还有一些注意事项——我儿子的华夫蛋筒带有纸套,而我的华夫蛋筒没有。我的离开商店后很快就崩溃了,给我留下的比任何东西都乱七八糟。我儿子最后把他的圆锥套筒给了我,试图把我的圆锥固定在一起。我还为我丈夫点了一份加了甜奶油的冷萃咖啡。甜奶油很好吃,但冷萃本身就淡了很多。
总的来说,这是一次非常令人困惑和失望的经历(对我的孩子来说,这是一种羞辱)。下次我们会在其他地方买到我们的 Lopez Island Creamery 冰淇淋。