The chain positions itself as “healthy” “fresh” “green” but apparently does not really care about neither environment no customers!
Yesterday at the Zurich airport location, an Indian woman just trashed the trey of cheese bread in front of us when we just bought it!
When my fiance asked her why she is doing it, she said ” we always do it because we need to close soon”!

So what I think is that its a shame for Switzerland to have such poor service in the most beautiful airport after I saw how people do care about the environment and do not just ignore such issues!

It is a shame of this woman and administration of the chain not to educate their staff !

SO WE DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM MARCHE RESTAURANTS !

I have lived over thirty years in a Western country I can say it will NEVER be peace on earth as long as Caucasians/Christians arrogantly thinks they have no part in the lack of peace on earth.
Religious intolerance is to not let other people have their religious belief, thereby NOT said religious people should have the right to force their religion on other people.
THAT is to disrespect other peoples’ right to not believe in the religion in question.
The rule of being allowed to practice your religion freely comes from Christians having tried to eradicate other religions as “pagan”.
Now they are misusing this rule to continue to force their religion on other people.

In Communist countries a small percent never accepted the atheist society.
In “Western” countries there is a percent which don’t believe in religion and constantly are being disrespected by Christians (and some Muslims) who just can’t avoid forcing “God” on everybody else.
Which is to disrespect atheists right to not believe in a “God”.
During the seventies boys were forced to play with dolls and girls to play with cars, although the average girl prefer to play with dolls and the average boy prefer to play with cars.
Today it’s accepted that there is an average difference between the genders. BUT all human beings have the same equal human rights.

People in this country is so scared of being accused of being Communist that they can’t see the injustice in their way of thinking.
For religious people to have the “right” to force their religion on atheists is just as WRONG as Communist not allowing religious people believe in their religion!
A Christmas tree, Santa Clause and “Jingle bells” may be accepted, BUT religious songs belong in religious buildings!
Buddhist people don’t sing “praise Buddha” on Vesak day.
Jews, Taoists and Confucianists don’t even have a public holiday in this country.

We were definitely charged the 1% CESS in more than one restaurant as recent as 4 years ago. Not sure about present 2011 though.

well, ALL method of killing (not just killing animals) is gruesome. well, just so you know, if by ‘the most gruesome’ you meant that the animal is suffering great pain during the killing because of, say, using a blunt knife, well then the animal killed is NOT halal. so don’t say it’s the most gruesome method. actually the method is to ensure that the animal will only feel the slightest pain possible. it can be said as the most humane. such as using a sharp knife and not letting the animal see the knife (some people even tie a cloth to close its eyes before killing). get your facts right before bashing anything, okay. but really, since you’re a vegan (not a vegetarian) you might not understand this.

Also, Yulius, I’m vegetarian and found that there were plenty of vegetarian options at Marche. The soups are typically made with vegetable stock, there’s a huge salad station, fresh vegetables being made all the time, bread, pasta, pizza, rosti, and of course, DESSERT. I had a very easy time finding things to eat there.

What is really “depressing” is that people though well educated and informed still look for “halal” or “kosher” products. It is quite obvious that the halal way of killing is the most pathetic,painful and gruesome way of killing innocent animals. Why cant we all evolve into a vegan society? Is it asking too much or is it about making a simple choice? There are numerous videos on the net that show how animals are slaughtered for food and how unaesthetic the concept of eating meat is. A lot of restaurants dont even have vegetarian items on the menu these days! The greatest sin in this world to me is killing. Killing innocent animals for food is despicable

I’m studying Tourism in the Swiss Alps and these days we (three follow students and me) have to do an analysis about Marché as an assignment for the subject Marketing (deadline is the 9. December 2009).

So I’m wondering if you could help us in our researches or if you could probably give us a little bit of your knowledge about Marché? Just to give you a picture about what we’re up to:

We have to analyse Marché in an external view (like catching opportuneties and threats of Marché in its environment) as well as in an internal view (becoming aware of Marché’s strengths and weaknesses )

So maybe you have some blurb for us about Marché or some hints or anything else useful :-)

Thanks anyway already in advance!
lovely greets from Switzerland
Jon

Hi Caroline,

It’s wonderful to hear from someone at Marché again! Thanks for asking. Yes, please link my review of the Marche restaurant in Singapore. I would be thrilled!

Please help say hi to Thomas Sjamsul!

This is really a great Blog and thank you for your kind words for Marché.

Acctually I have introduce myself; I am the Communications Manager of Marché International and a colleage did forward your link to me.
However I am kindly asking you if it is okay to put a link of your great blog to our Facebook Fan Page?

I think you will see my e-mail address, maybe you can reply to my e-mail to say what you think about.

All the best and kindest regards,
Caroline Stoiber

Marché Facebook Fan Page:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=308151&id=101989080524&saved#/pages/Kemptthal-Switzerland/Marche-Restaurants/101989080524

Oh thank you for your wonderful words! You made me smile like this :D

Yes, Marché is a great restaurant, not just because of the food, but the fact that they are willing to make further improvements. Thomas from the restaurant even left a comment explaining that they have improved their chocolate mousse (whose appearance I complained about). Yay!

If you like my blog you could subscribe to my future posts, too! :)

Thank you for such wonderful and appreciative comments! You have no idea how happy that makes me feel :)

I meant to write a lengthier reply, but it’s turning out to be rather sappy. So just a big thank you from the bottom of my heart for appreciating :)

Anyway – love your pictures, detailed reviews and most of all the attitude of this website! You should really start a daily column in the newspapers … Seriously!