Food festival winners announced<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Eat well and get a roundtrip First Class
\nJakarta-Hong Kong plane ticket, free accommodation at Shangri-La
\nHong Kong and a dining voucher or Rp 500,000 (US$235.84) at
\nJakarta's Oasis restaurant. Iwan Susilo, a holder of an American
\nExpress (Amex) card since 1987, won all of those things by simply
\nfilling in a form at the restaurant, which was a participant in
\n1994's Jakarta Food Festival.<\/p>\n
Hermawan Tanzil and Frans A.M. Nijnens, also Amex card
\nholders, won the second and the third prizes. The festival was
\nheld from September until October last year.<\/p>\n
The festival, organized by the City Tourism Office, the
\nIndonesian Tourism Promotion Board and Amex Travel Related
\nServices and participated in by 39 restaurants, aimed to improve
\nservice in Jakarta's restaurants in order to make the city more
\ncompetitive as a place for doing business.<\/p>\n
Patrons of restaurants participating in the festival, which
\nwill is to be an annual event, were asked to fill in a form,
\nstating their opinion about the restaurants. The form was used in
\nthe three prizes lucky draw. Based on customers' choice, the
\nOasis, Forum Shark's Fin and Singapore Ping restaurants were
\ndeclared the winners of the festival.<\/p>\n
\"To increase food quality and services in restaurants is very
\nimportant now if we want to develop our tourism industry,\" said
\nRoy Tan Hardy, Amex Travel Related Services's director of
\nmarketing and sales. He was speaking at the prize presentation
\nceremony yesterday.<\/p>\n
\"A survey carried by Australian-based consultant Frank Small
\nand Associates, in Jakarta and Bali last November, recorded that
\nmore than half of foreign visitors rated the food in Jakarta as
\n'good to excellent', while one out of four visitors mentioned
\ngood food and entertainment as the most memorable about
\nIndonesia,\" Roy said. (als)<\/p>",
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