Wedding Cakes from Goldilocks

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Goldilocks is one of the most popular cake brands in the Philippines. Filipinos usually go to this bakeshop (or to its rival Red Ribbon Bakeshop) whenever there's a birthday party or any celebration.

My Beloved Wife Lei and I are also frequent buyers of Goldilocks cakes that's why we visited this bakeshop after we checked Red Ribbon Bakeshop's wedding cakes.

Graceful Embrace from Goldilocks

Looking at the cake catalogue, we noticed that Goldilocks uses dummies at the top layers of their cake. Lei didn't want dummy cakes. What she wanted is that all layers of our cake be made of real cake.

Goldilocks cake are also more expensive than the cakes from Baker's Fair and Salazar Bakery.

In short, we didn't order any cakes from Goldilocks. Nonetheless, we enjoyed looking at the cake design in their catalogue. Here are some of them:

Goldilocks Fantasy Wedding Cake

According to Goldilocks catalogue, Fantasy is a 3-layer fondant-inspired mocha cake. It costs 7,000 pesos.

Goldilocks Promise Wedding Cake

Promise is a 1-layer 14 inch diameter fondant-inspired mocha cake. It costs 4,000 pesos.

Goldilocks Romance Wedding Cake

Romance is similar to Fantasy. It is a 3-layer fondant-inspired mocha cake. It also costs 7,000 pesos.

There are more cakes in the catalogue but these three are my favorites. Wedding cake designs may also be viewed in Goldilocks website.

Take note that the prices mentioned in this blog post is for 2013. Prices may have change after that year.

What's good with Goldilocks is that the price of their wedding cakes includes four 6 inch diameter mini cakes. For the 3-layer cakes, the price also includes 12 pieces of polvoron cakes. Couples may add more mini cakes for 500 pesos each and polovoron cakes for 85 pesos each.

If you're looking for wedding cakes, I suggest that you try to check out Goldilocks.

Do you want to read more about wedding cakes? I suggest that you read my posts about the wedding cakes from Bakers' Fair, Bakerite, Red Ribbon Bakeshop, and Salazar Bakery.

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Goldilocks Megamall Needs Improvement

Whenever I am eating at a fast food restaurant I expect that (1) my orders are served quickly and (2) the restaurant staff will treat me nicely. These are just simple expectations but there are fast food restaurants that fail to fulfill these expectations of mine. One of such restaurant is the SM Megamall branch of Goldilocks.

My beloved wanted to have dinuguan for dinner so we went to Goldilocks. I noticed that there are two queues inside the restaurant. One queue is for those who are ordering Goldilocks cakes. The other queue is for those who are ordering the Goldilocks meal.

The queue for the Goldilocks meal is quite long. The reason for this is that there is only one cashier and only two employees assembling the orders of the customers. Another bad thing is that customers had to wait on line while waiting for their orders to be assembled. The result is that customers became impatient, which made them nasty. The impatience of the customers also affected the staff of Goldilocks. Maybe that is the reason why the cashier is not smiling when she served our orders.

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Goldilocks is like a big carinderia and this image is reinforced in the way they present their dishes. However, I find the restaurant’s Filipino image weird because the name Goldilocks is so American. 

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In fairness, Goldilocks’ dinuguan tasted good. It is no surprise that this dish is My Beloved's favorite. We also also ordered the Veggie Lumpia but it is too sweet for our liking.

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What I ordered for dinner is this:

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This is Goldilocks’ kare-kare, which just tasted OK. 

My advice to Goldilocks is that they improve their system of getting orders from their customers. They should copy the system of other fast food restaurants like Jollibee and Mang Inasal. Customers are given numbers so they can leave the queue and go to their seats. It is the restaurant staff that will bring the ordered dishes to the customers. This will reduce the number of impatient customers and un-smiling cashiers.

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Photos of pork dinuguan and veggie lumpia came from Goldilocks website.

How about you Dear Reader? Did you dine in Goldilocks Megamall. What is your experience on their service? Let us talk about it by leaving a comment.