A dad has complained that a restaurant ruined his family's Christmas dinner, but others have been come to the restaurant's defence to point out the same thing.
Rick Arpino visited the Ruposhi Indian Bar & Restaurant on Christmas Day - with his partner and their four children. He said both he and his wife ordered two Indian dinners and traditional Christmas dinners were for the children.
However, in a review on TripAdvisor, he stated their Christmas dinner was ruined when the children were served chicken, half a fried tomato, and chips.
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"What an absolute farce of a restaurant - Xmas Dinner ruined for our children on the whim of this establishment," Rick wrote on both Tripadvisor and in a Facebook post, reports the MEN.
The father acknowledged in his review that he was informed the children's turkey had been replaced with chicken ahead of the meal, due to lack of interest, but they were still expecting all the trimmings.
However, the Ruposhi Indian Restaurant in Bury said that it rang up its customers in advance of Christmas Day to take their orders - and to explain that they were no longer serving a traditional Christmas dinner menu due to a lack of interest.
Since the complaint was published, hundreds of people have been leaving comments.
"I think Christmas dinner was ruined the second you decided to go for an Indian for a Christmas dinner!" wrote Peter Holden, responding to the post on the What's on in Ramsbottom Facebook page.
John Southworth added: "Ruposhi is a fabulous Indian restaurant serving wonderful Indian food, we love it there. However, it would probably be low down on my list of places to host a 'traditional' British Christmas lunch. Maybe try another establishment rather than giving it a bad review?"
Rachel Bowen also went to the Ruposhi on Christmas Day and said she was told they weren't doing Christmas dinner when she booked.
She said: "We went yesterday couldn't fault it we all had the curry amazing. After all it is a Indian curry house. If you wanted English food I would suggest you to go a pub or somewhere. They did come round asking if everything was ok so really you should off(sic) said something and not slag them off all over Facebook."
The restaurant's manager, Shah Munim, has said that he's written to Tripadvisor to complain about the review.
He also explained the reason the restaurant did not serve traditional Christmas dinners.
He said that it was not worth 'all the hard work' to prepare a traditional British Christmas dinner when there had been so few customers ordering it.
"We want to please our customers. We gave them options. And they chose chicken and chips," he claimed.
"I fully agree with them, they're not happy. I did my best," Mr Munim said.
"But unfortunately after leaving they wrote on Facebook and Tripadvisor. I don't know why they're doing that," he said.
The Ruposhi served around 80 customers on Christmas Day on Saturday, December 25.
One of those customers left a five-star review.
"We came for Christmas day six off(sic) us excellent food yet again fantastic service and staff curries was(sic) spot on. Thank you for a lovely meal," the user Vacation57473667691 said.
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