Business Performance Coaching

At last I have found the perfect product, delivered with perfect service which gave me an awesome experience ………..

I spent my entire career trying to give all my customers excellent service with products that more than meet their needs, I have helped businesses in more recent years do exactly the same thing, but in all that time I have never met an individual / company pull off everything exceptionally well that left me looking for an excuse to go back for more …….. until now!!

Recently my wife gave birth to a baby boy, Lachlan, one week before our first wedding anniversary and three weeks before my wife’s birthday.  I try to be a bit of a romantic for occasions such as anniversaries and birthdays but I was thinking this year there is just no way we were going to be dining at any swanky restaurant or jetting off for a weekend away  so then I got to thinking ……………. “if I can’t get my wife to the restaurant, I’ll get the restaurant to come to our house!”.  I looked in the yellow pages, I tried Google, I tried several online business directories but I couldn’t find anything, the closest I got was a company pre-making the meals so all I had to do was heat them up ……… hmmm not quite what I had in mind, I could pull out something from the freezer and cut out the middle man if I was going to go down that line!!

The sauce was a secret but it was incredible

I was just about getting to the point of giving up when I spoke to one of our friends from our anti-natal class about my little dilemma and low and behold did they not know someone that did just what I was looking for, usually for groups of 10 -12 but she does small parties from time to time!!  They sent this lady, Marie our contact details to which she promptly emailed us with some suggestions, to cut a long story short after swapping some emails we had the menu sorted, cost per head agreed and the date booked … my wife’s birthday, to make it a little bit more special I also invited our friends along from the anti-natal class as they also had a new born son, so would be able to relax in our home with our boys and neither couple would have to worry about them crying etc.

The evening came, Marie turns up with EVERYTHING, including plates and pans, within 30 minutes of her arrival we were sitting around the dinning table tucking into our breads and dips, and boy were the dips amazing, not sure exactly what was in them (Marie could tell us but she’d have to kill us!!) but what a way to start the meal.  Then came the main course of steak (for the boys) and salmon (for the girls), all the dishes were cooked to perfection, the salmon had the most amazing sauce with it, we asked what it was (again Marie was going to kill us, so we asked no more!!), now this is where Marie went the extra mile, on starting our main course Lachlan decided to get a bit grumpy, Marie picked him up from his bed and calmed him down letting his parents continue with their meal, again awesome!!

On to deserts now and what a finale, heart-shaped berried ice-cream atop a chocolate and chai scented biscuit base, drizzled with honeycomb chocolate topping and served with a berry jus; does your mouth not water just reading that, again awesome and as we were tucking into our deserts, Marie cleaned the kitchen, packed up everything into her car and left, it was as if she had never been at our house (other than the fact we just had a meal to die for!!).

My wife and I along with our guests had such a relaxing night (considering there was two children in the house only about a month old!!), it’s something I will be raving about for a very long time to come.  What a great product, a restaurant quality meal in your home (the food was to die for) with no cleaning up to do, great service (yes Marie served for meal to us at the table), friendly and well priced.

If you are in Christchurch, want to celebrate something special but can’t or don’t want to go out, get in touch with Marie you wont be dissappointed!!

Marie’s company is called EmJay Catering and her email address is mariejenkins@xtra.co.nz