Comments on: I are loving it!

By: Mista Bob Dobalina

Mista Bob Dobalina — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:02:34 +0000

This looks too much like the Turkish Engrish I see all over Turkey…is the manager a second-generation immigrant from Turkey, my beloved and crazy country? “Yurdum insanı çok yaşa!”

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:43:48 +0000

Why on earth is “huisregels” on this sign when the rest is all english?

Maybe, so non-English reading customers know what the sign is for.

By: Chantal

Chantal — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:31:52 +0000

Hey, give them some credit. After all, they did write “Amsterdam” correctly.

By: Jay Vos

Jay Vos — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:14:28 +0000

Send that manager back to Hamburger University!

By: Gijs

Gijs — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:07:09 +0000

Why on earth is “huisregels” on this sign when the rest is all english?

By: Nina

Nina — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:14:12 +0000

Why did they “translate” homerules but not the rest? Translate everything or nothing.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:02:27 +0000

Rules

1. No drugs
2. No alcohol
3. No soliciting? No commercial activity?
4. Customers must defer to the manager’s authority?
5. The manager may ask customers to leave for any reason he considers appropriate.
6. We will call the police in the event of any disturbance.
7. Seating area is for paying customers only. No loitering.

You’d think head office either in NL or the US would have some kind of standard sign they could install. It’s painful to see that someone wrote this crap, had it etched into that plastic and installed throughout the place and no one during the entire process thought to have the English checked. Maybe it’s aimed at ESL speakers and they didn’t think it was worth the effort to get it right.

By: mare

mare — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:44:29 +0000

Homerules = house rules
sent you out the restaurant = make you leave the restaurant
Seating = sitting

By: Márcia W.

Márcia W. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:22:24 +0000

sent?= monetary unit of Estonia, equal to one hundredth of a kroon. Wow, what a powerful ( and unconscious?)manager !

By: Laurent

Laurent — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:57:38 +0000

The place was covered with it. Every corner had one… I was so embarrassed for them…