13 October 2011

Hi my name is Julie,just wanted to tell you i stopped at one of your stores near Newcastle, i thought it was fantastic and think your shop would be great around Australia..
Can you tell me where your stores are and also is it Australian owned? Also about the online shopping you can do through you??? ... fantastic job you have done and beautiful food, great...

Regards Julie

9 October 2011

Extrakt from Oliver's Online feedback:
What did you like most?
I like the fact that you have introduced the pita bread toast and the beans for small eaters without too much money.

My Menu suggestions:
Can I suggest you use Organic milk in your hot drinks. I would always go in to buy it in favour of Mcdonalds accross the parking lot. The problem is it is more money and no reason really for the extra. Organic milk is easy to get and not that expensive anymore.

General Comments:
Love that you try so hard to create healthy food for the travelling public on the F3.

Where to open and Oliver's store:
On the northern beaches of Sydney

Deirdre Hankins

28 September 2011

Hi Jason,
 
just a little feedback on some excellent customer service I received 28/9/11 at your central coast outlet on the freeway, by one of your employees, Kelly, very helpful, great enthusiastic work ethic and attitude, there were no yogurts available, and she very keenly went and made me one, great to see someone who actually wants to provide good customer service, if you guys have any monthly employee awards, I would certainly recommend Kelly, for such an award, thank you for employing such quality employees as Kelly to serve us, the public, you guys have the best coffee and yogurts, thank you, kind regards,

Bill Morris

11 July 2011

Hi There!
 
I just signed up to your website and suggested that I’d love to see another Oilver’s open up somewhere in Newcastle…. But I was just considering what a great idea a mobile van might be.
 
Working at Pacific National, we are trying to help promote healthy diets and lifestyles for our employees, and good healthy, but delicious foods delivered via mobile service would also be fantastic.
 
If not a mobile service, the Hexam store should think about taking orders from local businesses and delivering out at lunch times!
 
Just an idea I felt worth passing on.
 
Thanks for the great food – I ALWAYS stop on my way to Sydney now, and even make my partner stop on the F3 on the way home to Swansea every weekend to pick me up some of your bircher, GF Muffins and sushi!  J  Keep up the great work and great food!
 
Its wonderful to have a business offer something nicer, tastier and healthier than burgers and grease, and the fact that you cater for Gluten Free is a BIG plus for me!

Many thanks
Nadine

6 July 2011

Extrakt from Oliver's Online feedback:
Rating
Food: 10; Menu Selection: 10; Taste: 15; Service Staff: 14; Value: 8; waiting Time: 8; Design:9

What did you like most: real food! We were able to give our whole family good, nutritional food in a 'fast' environment. Great not walking into a place and having to fight off requests for junk.

General Comments: You have converted our 11yr old from a hot chip junkie to enjoying sushi in the kids pack. A major achievement. Thank you! Olivers is also the only place where I could ask (and receive with no fuss but real enthusiasm) for a raw carrot. We had been eating celery sticks and cherry tomatoes in the car and I just felt like a raw carrot. Your staff were so helpful - they peeled it (offering to chop which I didn't require) and I left VERY happy and not feeling like a rabbit! The service was polite, fast and obliging, a real novelty these days. And they genuinely smiled!! On the north bound trip we all sat down to eat.
All 5 of us (3 adults and 2 children) enjoyed our respective meals. Thank you too for clean amenities.

Where to open and Oliver's store: Hume Highway and any other place that takes your fancy. It would be great if your business became the McDonalds of real food - making a healthy contribution rather than a negative one.

With kind regards
Wendy

27 June 2011

Extrakt from Oliver's Online feedback:
Rating
Food: 10; Menu Selection: 10; Taste: 10; Service Staff: 10; Value: 8; waiting Time: 8; Design: 10

What did you like most: your food is just wonderful. I cannot expresss how greatful i am at being able to have such a healthy option. It tastes great and i always leave feeling satisfied and good!

General Comments: Wonderful gluten free range!

Where to open and Oliver's store: In the city of newcastle, becasue I think it would be very popular as there are no healthy options anywhere here, unless cooking at home!

With kind regards
Sophie

15 June 2011

Send from an iphone: Subject: Thank you for awesome fast food! The world needs more of you!
Hi Jason,
Have just experienced Oliver's Real Food for the first time. WOW! This is awesome! Thank you for creating this amazing establishment. I can now get in the car and not feel tired and bloated because your food it's just so scrumptious and keeps your energy levels up. I often travel to Canberra so if possible could you & your team look at setting an ORF store on the HWY, near Exeter, I think it would do really well there!

Thank you for educating us (the public) on healthy food and YES fast food can really be good for you and very yummy!

With kind regards
Jessica

26 April 2011

Allpress is fab coffee. Bought the dips with carrot and celery sticks and a juice. All excellent. We should sit down and work out how we can really help you. Thanks for the great work, it looks and tastes great!
General Comments: Thank you for saving the traveling public from revolting fast food. you prove that edible healthy snacks on the road are a viable option. Were you inspired by the amazing cages on the Italian freeways? They are a destination themselves... And so is Oliver's.
Where to open and Oliver's store: On every big highway around the country!

Gin
Paddinton, NSW

15 April 2011
Hi Jason,

Just a quick note to say that we think Oliver’s Real Food is perfect!

The staff are blown away with the store downstairs – and the care package.
I have had so many people comment to me about the new healthy food outlet, and it’s ‘all really positive’.
Being located on the University grounds, we all suffer from Uni food frustration and you are the saviour for everyone here.
We should sit down and work out how we can really help you,
Thanks for the great work, it looks and tastes great!

Manu Taylor
Station Manager, 95 [b] FM

5 April 2011
Comments of a very happy Oliver's customer:

What did you like most? It's really difficult to find something nutritious and healthy to eat, so having an entire shop devoted to that is fabulous.
My Menu suggestions: Keep up the great work. What a breath of fresh air!
General Comments: Keep up the great work. We need more encouragement to eathealthy.
Where to open and Oliver's store: Western suburbs of Sydney to provide healthier options for the lower socioeconomic sector of society and to challenge traditional fast food outlets.

Anna Redman
Blacktown NSW

16 Feb 2011

Good afternoon
 
I would just like to compliment Oliver’s Real Food outlet on the F3 Freeway North and Southbound on having THE best toilet facilities I have ever been in.  My husband and I travel the F3 Freeway to Sydney from Newcastle frequently and always have a stop-off at “the Twin Servos” for a break and it is always such a pleasure to visit Oliver’s Real Food outlets.
The food is great always fresh and tasty and the toilet facilities are outstanding (compared to other facilities within the area and also just off the F3 Freeway in the outer Sydney area).
Well done!!!....and I tell everyone who travels the F3 Freeway to and from Sydney to call into your facilities.
 
Lyn
Hunter Region, NSW

6 February 2011
Dear Jason,

I recently visited one of your stores in Newcastle and was absolutely so excited to find healthy food on the highway. I think I'm allergic to wheat and I was with a friend who has food allergies as well and who likes to eat healthy. We travel a lot for work and it made our day to find somewhere that caters to what we like to eat.
I think you have a great idea on your hands. Product range was good, prices were reasonable and service was great. I think white bread should be banned, and am constantly surprised by the crap that is sold to us in supermarkets and restaurants. Are people catching on to the concept that healthy eating can taste really good?
I wanted to write you and tell you I hope you are expanding your footprint (any stores in Sydney?) Hopefully demand will grow!

All the best.  
Alex Hsiao

What did you like most: Our surprise at seeing gluten free and healthy products in a fast food store! We were blown away! Even raw snack bars! OMG
we love it.Also loved the dvd playing "Foodmatters" AND the Ekhart Tolle books on the counter - this is truly an inspired store. Congratulations. Went
to the Wyong southbound store first, then the northbound two days later, then chanced upon the Hexam one later that same day - we visited three stores in two days!

My Menu suggestions: Salad dressing for the salad would be great - but really, it was fantastic and I loved the little tub of seeds/nuts enclosed. My husband loved the coffee and the breakfast wrap. Two days later when we visited again, he and my son had icecream which they loved, plus muffins. I loved the raw snack bars. Your menu is great.

General Comments: We have stopped at Wyong Southbound many times over the past 3 years and never entered your store! This day we parked very near it
but almost walked past it - hubby was needing a coffee and started heading for the fast food store nearby - until he saw Olivers signage saying you had coffee,and bathrooms - so we then decided to check it out. We think you are a hidden gem and would perhaps see improved traffic if signage was clearer:
COFFEE, BATHROOMS, FRESH FOOD, HOT BREAKFAST etc. BTW we loved the dvd screening "Foodmatters", the bathrooms that don't have doors for germ swapping, and the E Tolle books on the counter - this store is seriously COOL!

Where to open and Oliver's store: Port Macquarie, at the intersection on Pacific and Oxley Hwy. We would even look at franchising if you're interested! We love Olivers!

We just wanted to pass on a huge thank you for the effort you went to in looking after us for Sophie's birthday, it was really appreciated. The food was wonderful and the sandwiches were a good assortment with no vegemite in sight....how fantastic! The sausage rolls and sushi were great too and the adults ended up just sharing what we had, which is a nice testament to the quality of the food and the fruit salad was so fresh too! I think a few kids were surprised by the lack of 'colours and numbers' but we loved it and it is good to set a precedent for a party where everything isn't toxic but rather 'real'..... well done!
Sophie chose your venue for her party so I hope this aspect of your business takes off and we'll certainly tell everyone what a great experience it was for us.Amanda is a wonderful asset to your business of which I'm sure you are aware and was very prompt in getting back to me regarding organisation and menus. She also did a beautiful job with the ice cream cake, it was delicious.

Thank you also for the gorgeous gift we weren't expecting that, Sophie was delighted.

Please also thank Tracey again, she was so attentive and caring and really looked after us.

I have left a message Amanda for you regarding the photos. I just wanted to check with the parents that they were ok about us forwarding those to you, one family is away at the moment so I'll get back to shortly on that one. I don't think it would be a problem so long as names aren't used. We are happy if only Sophie's first name is used.

Please feel free to use some of the text of this email for promotional purposes if it can be helpful in any way.

Thanks again and we'll look forward to our next visit to Olivers when we are heading north.

Kind Regards
Simone Glover

Thank you!
We are very Grateful & Optimistic!
Keep up the good work, we sincerely hope Oliver’s is the McDonalds of the future!
 
Cathy Smith, QLD 4179 (15-02- 10)

I loveeeeeeeed the healthy food options and atmosphere on a road trip where there are usually very little healthy options. Please PLEASE open some of these cafes in Sydney suburbia? We need them!!!!
Would really like to know if any stores planned for suburban Sydney. I am in the north west and think there is definitely a market in Rouse Hill/Hills area of Sydney for these cafes. Please open one! we need more healthy options and I know that so many other locals would buy from you especially having the nutritional information available!

Lucy, NSW 2768 (12-02-10)

What a joy to find a place serving good food and drink.  I'd just about given up.  I live on the Mid-North Coast and hope you open more stores north, including nearer Brisbane.
What did you like most: Coffee that was actually drinkable and enjoyable!  Also loved the fresh fruit salad with yoghurt AND seed/nut mix.  Raisin toast serving was huge - and delicious.
 
Mandy Wright (15-02-10) NSW 2455

My wife and I (and baby daughter) were delighted to find Oliver's - finally a place to stop and eat. Not sure how long you have been there, we have been overseas for 4 years.  So congrats on a brave move, and one I hope will reap rewards for you.

Marcus Dervin, NSW 2030 (26-01-10)

Hey, that FreshNess handmade BIRD BAR is THE BEST!!
YOU ARE GREAT!! KEEP IT COMING!

Minnie Biggs, NSW 2758 (31-12-09)

I had butter chicken with rice & choc mousse, the taste was cleansing and great. The food did not repeat on me....
Could you please open more stores in the Hawkesbury district where I am from.

Bernadette Nolland, NSW 2756 (23-01-10)