In 1986 we did a promotion with Becker’s Food Stores. If you purchased any product you received a coupon for any Conklin Shows ride at the Canadian National Exhibition. The deal was “Buy one ride, get the second ride free.” I was called to Guest Relations to assist a customer where a customer asked: “So let me get this deal straight – if I purchase the Tilt A Whirl I get the Scrambler for free, and how much are you asking for the Tilt A Whirl?”
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We had an incident of minor consequence due to rider error on the ever famous Enterprise Ride. Must have been a slow news week for the Toronto Sun reported the story in the newspaper the following day. We received a call into our offices by a disgruntled patron asking: “What type of Enterprise are you people running any how?”
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One of our long time and very funny employees “Doc Godin” was selling all day ride bracelets in front of the Giant Wheel ticket booths on a very busy last Sunday. He was barking out to the crowd: “Pay one price bracelets and Air Show, get your bracelets here.” The barking surely put some smiles on some of the peoples’ faces with regards to the Air Show. A customer came up and purchased a bracelet and asked where she could see the Air Show. Doc replied: “You can look up now.” The lady responded very seriously: “I’m so sorry I’ve been looking up all afternoon – I will know better next year.”
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Our food staff is trained to ask the customer after they make their purchase if they would like at drink with their order. One customer’s reply was: “No thanks, I have a drinking problem.”
