Alley John's Japanese Crepes

Alley John

Operation hour: 1.30pm – 11pm

Address: G-5, Jalan Timah, Taman Bandar Baru, 31900 Kampar, Perak.
 (Location map at the bottom)

Latitude: 4.328491 Longitudes: 101.145063

The Japanese crepes are actually borrowing the idea from French crepes, but the difference of Japanese crepes are more focus on the level of versatile and simply tasty street food. The characteristic of Japanese crepes usually based on used less butter and fully filled with sweet or savory raw ingredients. After that, they rolled up the crepe become ice-cream cone shape and place on parchment paper. It benefited for customer tastes “casualness” of the Japanese crepes with different possible filling fresh ingredients. About the raw ingredients, basically using fruits like strawberries and banana, whipped cream, chocolate sauce, ice-cream are all traditional Japanese crepes fillings. Besides, Japanese crepes already become quick street food for customer easily handed it like ice-cream cone to enjoy it and toted away.

For the Alley Johns café, the Japanese crepes are the main popular food for them to attract newbie and loyalty customer visit and taste their foods. The service of the staff is friendly and polite, they also completed the crepes efficient and quickly to serve their customers. So, the level of satisfying customers always remains at good quality and services to encourage them to improve their business as well.

The Japanese crepes of Alley Johns have been categories into the salty and sweet flavor with difference types of fillings. For the salty crepes part of flavors, it includes with Chicken Teriyaki, Chicken Katsu, Chicken of Ham and Chicken Floss. And the price already separated to Ala carte (single) RM8.90 and Set of meal RM 11.90 (include with other foods) for the customer to choice on the menu.

For the sweet crepes of flavors, it has classified to 4 parts as Hot dessert crepe, Double cream crepe, Single cream crepe and ice cream crepe. Overall minimum price for sweet types Japanese crepes are Ala Cart RM 5.90 and Set meal RM 9.90; the overall maximum price are Ala Cart RM 8.50 and Set meat RM 11.90 for the customer to choice on the menu.    

The top best Japanese crepes for the customer decides are Chicken Teriyaki because the Teriyaki sauce is too delicious and flavourful for some customers. And the ice-cream crepes is also one of the popular choices from the customers. Generally, each customer has different flavour taste, so customers can try it and find out which type of flavors more prefer for you.

The venue for Alley Johns café is placed at food streets as good position place because there have many students of the colleague will visit the food streets and observe their café. In addition, Alley Johns also has a good business strategy because they focus on food strategy more than sales. So, the special food product always becomes most attractive for customers especially teenagers or student like to visit their café.  

From the result of existing customer’s feedback, we discovered the reason for customers prefer visits Alley Johns to enjoy the Japanese crepe is because it is special and delicious tastes. The Japanese Crepe is a convenience quick street food, and it shapes like the ice-cream cone with different tastes like sweet as desserts, salt and spicy as staples foods. Example for sweet tastes of crepe, the customer responds “It tastes smooth, fragrant and simply delicious” and commend the waiter services are quite friendly and polite. 

Besides, they also provided a kindly notice board about how to remove the cover and enjoy your crepes more easily. The environment of Alley Johns café also gives the customer feels comfortable to enjoy tea time with their friends and family.

Interviewing the owner of Ally John.