We booked KK catering 3 months ago to provide the food for our Christmas party we chose street food for 70 adults and burgers and chips for 30 children. Together with Belgium waffles and ice cream We also booked a bar through a local company, an Xbox van, plus entertainment for the children including a Christmas teddy etc.
I text the mobile number I was given at 9am in the morning and had no response, at 10.30am I rang the number and woke the guy up, he sounded rough and hungover. I explained who I was and that I was getting worried and wanted to check he was coming to our event and what time who would arrive.
He told me he was planning on leaving at 1pm to get to us and was around an hour away.
At 3.30pm I was getting extremely worried as my guests where arriving at 5pm and I'd heard nothing, I rang twice and got no answer, this was causing me and my family stress and you can imagine.
I got a call back to say he was having trouble with the lights on his trailer and was trying to fix them since 11am! I asked why I had not been informed of this so I could have at least tried to sort something out, he said he had been trying to fix the problem and was now waiting for the AA who were arriving at 5.10pm ! The first thing I did was phone the head office number and got an answer phone! The guy offered me no contingency plans, my guests all arrived hungry expecting the food I'd told them they were getting on the party invites
At just before 6pm he told he wasn't coming, I was shocked as I'm sure anyone would be, imagine if you had booked for your wedding!
I have got my money back and was sent flowers and chocolates and the offer of a voucher to go out for dinner! That's it, the party cost us almost £5,000 and was ruined by their lack of service and I have been offered no compensation towards my costs and the stress of not being able to feed my guests
I want everyone to know about this because it's unacceptable and I've never experienced service like this before, we host 2 or 3 big events a year and I have never not had a catering company turn up
We will stick to local in future, how can such a large company let us down so badly? Please beware before you book with them read more