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Doijb · 2024-11-26T11:56:10+00:00

I take my kids to a bakery after swimming. Most of the time they choose sausage rolls or similar. There is a tiny table with two chairs. I plop one of my kids on my lap and we eat our treat. I prefer this as otherwise the flakes would go everywhere. Anyway, after going every week to this place for a year one of the staff members tells me we’re not really a sit down food place. I inquire about the chairs and she said it’s more for people who wait. I just found this odd. My kids are brilliantly behaved and I make sure not loud. My oldest will wipe down the table with a serviette. Who is being weird?

Ochrer · 27/11/2024 07:41

monkfruitmartini · 27/11/2024 07:35

They will have to get out a broom and a brush and pan, and wipe down the table and probably the seats after she's gone. OP sits there with her children, one young enough to sit on her lap. If you think there are not pastry flakes all over the joint afterwards, you have never eaten a pastry.

Maybe you think it's cool to provide extra work for people working in a bakery, but most people are more considerate.

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I certainly don’t think there aren’t pastry flakes in a bakery. And I’m so considerate I’m usually the one asking why people are so rude and callous to posters on here, these days. But you know…

monkfruitmartini · 27/11/2024 07:35

Ochrer · 27/11/2024 07:09

😂😂😂😂😂😂

How will the bakery cope with pastry flakes?! Will they need to buy special pastry flake cleaning equipment?!

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They will have to get out a broom and a brush and pan, and wipe down the table and probably the seats after she's gone. OP sits there with her children, one young enough to sit on her lap. If you think there are not pastry flakes all over the joint afterwards, you have never eaten a pastry.

Maybe you think it's cool to provide extra work for people working in a bakery, but most people are more considerate.

Ochrer · 27/11/2024 07:14

Butterworths · 27/11/2024 07:12

I knew as soon as I saw the title this thread would be completely batshit 😂

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You’re not wrong. At least it wasn’t whether sitting down before ordering the sausage roll was ok. We’d really be in trouble with that one, especially if there’s a mother and baby parking space too.

Butterworths · 27/11/2024 07:12

Ochrer · 27/11/2024 07:10

I can’t work out if it’s a symptom of younger posters or some other form of different demographic here these days but it’s.. kind of wild. Good god.

I knew as soon as I saw the title this thread would be completely batshit 😂

Ochrer · 27/11/2024 07:10

I can’t work out if it’s a symptom of younger posters or some other form of different demographic here these days but it’s.. kind of wild. Good god.

Ochrer · 27/11/2024 07:09

monkfruitmartini · 27/11/2024 00:19

You know what's pretty shit? Showering a bakery floor with you and your offspring's sausage roll flakes every week for a year, and then when you are informed finally that it is not an eat-in place, getting on MN all indignant and asking who is in the wrong here and who is being weird.

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😂😂😂😂😂😂

How will the bakery cope with pastry flakes?! Will they need to buy special pastry flake cleaning equipment?!

Ochrer · 27/11/2024 07:07

TitaniasAss · 26/11/2024 23:24

Not really 'pretty shit' though is it? A minor inconvenience, perhaps, for most people.

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Pretty shit is pretty mild unless we’re being extremely pedantic. Are we?

OolongTeaDrinker · 27/11/2024 06:59

Oodiks · 26/11/2024 19:15

An entire year??

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Yes why not - the OP is there once a week at the same time for I guess around half an hour; If the owner isn’t normally at the bakery at that time or day they could easily have gone 10 years without encountering her 🤷🏻‍♀️

ForGreyKoala · 27/11/2024 04:17

ReleaseTheHoneyBadgers · 27/11/2024 04:02

Seats are for waiting, tables are for eating.

The bakery are being weird, especially as they took a year to tell you.

Surely anyone with half a brain would question ONE table being in a bakery? If they wanted people to eat in they would have provided more.

ReleaseTheHoneyBadgers · 27/11/2024 04:02

Seats are for waiting, tables are for eating.

The bakery are being weird, especially as they took a year to tell you.

Guest100 · 27/11/2024 03:47

She should have said something the first time, not waited a year. I wouldn’t go back.

I was at a chemist that had shelves so close it’s like a rabbits house. I had a full trolley and kids with me I waited at the side as there wasn’t room to stand without blocking a walkway. When it was technically my turn I went to the counter. The person serving said sorry I think the person behind you was next. It was so embarrassing, I just apologised put my stuff on the counter and left. I have not been back. Unfortunately sometimes this stuff happens. Hopefully you have other options to get a snack.

ForGreyKoala · 27/11/2024 03:15

SwerveCity · 26/11/2024 12:07

If I saw a table and chairs I would presume that you can eat there.

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What, one table and chairs?? Surely it it was an eat in place it would have more.

SpiggingBelgium · 27/11/2024 00:41

“Showering” the floor? How fucking big are these sausage rolls?!

monkfruitmartini · 27/11/2024 00:19

Ochrer · 26/11/2024 21:53

I’ve had this crazy idea that they could either get rid of the table, or put a small sign on it. I mean, the sign would look a bit passive aggressive, but then telling a customer after a year was pretty shit too.

You know what's pretty shit? Showering a bakery floor with you and your offspring's sausage roll flakes every week for a year, and then when you are informed finally that it is not an eat-in place, getting on MN all indignant and asking who is in the wrong here and who is being weird.

SpiggingBelgium · 26/11/2024 23:57

Nodlikeyouwerelistening · 26/11/2024 20:06

Omg…. No one said she is going to do this! Where are you even getting that? I said in my original post in answer to her that given the whole situation she shouldn’t sit there anymore. A comment. No suggestion, no accusation. Just a comment on her post that ultimately it doesn’t matter who is in the right in this situation. She’s been told not to sit there and that’s that.

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I don’t know how I can explain this to you any more simply.

Why are you still telling OP she shouldn’t do something she has never said she has any intention of doing again?!

TitaniasAss · 26/11/2024 23:24

Ochrer · 26/11/2024 21:53

I’ve had this crazy idea that they could either get rid of the table, or put a small sign on it. I mean, the sign would look a bit passive aggressive, but then telling a customer after a year was pretty shit too.

Not really 'pretty shit' though is it? A minor inconvenience, perhaps, for most people.

Ochrer · 26/11/2024 21:53

I’ve had this crazy idea that they could either get rid of the table, or put a small sign on it. I mean, the sign would look a bit passive aggressive, but then telling a customer after a year was pretty shit too.

Ochrer · 26/11/2024 21:52

Namerequired · 26/11/2024 16:00

She was just telling you facts, why is that weird? There would probably be different insurance for sit in, definitely different prices, and don’t you need toilets to have a sit in eating place?
They have probably felt awkward about saying to you but since it’s gone on so long felt they should. Do you think they are wrong in telling you or that they didn’t tell you sooner? You know now.

Haha, totally not weird at all to have a table and chairs in a place that sells food and have a problem with a person sitting there to eat the food they bought in said place. And then to wait a year to say something, they are absolutely definitely not the weird ones here, oh no! 😂

theilltemperedqueenofspacetime · 26/11/2024 21:29

Coffeecakelatte · 26/11/2024 21:25

My festive bake was scalding hot the other day, had just come out of the oven though.

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That is their cunning ruse - to keep a constant trickle of freshly baked stuff. That's why they sometimes run out or the bakes are cold. Perverse incentive.

Coffeecakelatte · 26/11/2024 21:25

theilltemperedqueenofspacetime · 26/11/2024 19:26

Greggs deliberately don't keep their bakes hot so they don't incur the 'pasty tax' for takeaway, only for eat-in.

Shops that serve hot bakes pay the tax irrespective of location of consumption.

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My festive bake was scalding hot the other day, had just come out of the oven though.

whatcanthematterbe81 · 26/11/2024 20:22

TickingAlongNicely · 26/11/2024 12:13

Its likely the VAT issue... there are different rules for eat in and eat out.

Not a reflection on your parenting.

If it's warmed there's VAT on it whether it's in or out. Not sure if hers is warm or not tho

Nodlikeyouwerelistening · 26/11/2024 20:06

SpiggingBelgium · 26/11/2024 18:35

But she hasn’t suggested she’s going to do this!! And no one else has suggested she do it!!!

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Omg…. No one said she is going to do this! Where are you even getting that? I said in my original post in answer to her that given the whole situation she shouldn’t sit there anymore. A comment. No suggestion, no accusation. Just a comment on her post that ultimately it doesn’t matter who is in the right in this situation. She’s been told not to sit there and that’s that.

Maverickess · 26/11/2024 20:02

taxguru · 26/11/2024 19:17

Where it applies, the cafe's till will be programmed with "eat in" and "eat out" buttons which will work out the VAT automatically. No need for counter staff to know nor understand the VAT laws at all. They just press one or the other button and the VAT numbers are all automatically calculated in the background and "pinged" through to populate the accounts and VAT return in turn.

Same happens with the likes of convenience stores - those using bar codes the till will be pre-programmed with the different VAT rates for different categories of sale. Those without bar codes, the till will have different buttons for different categories of sale, so, say a newspaper will be entered by manually entering the price and then pressing the "news" button, whereas a Mars bar will be manually entered by entering the price and then the "confectionary" button, a pack of logs will be entered by entering the price and then the "fuel" button, etc.

No need at all for the counter staff to know as it's all pre-programmed to work it out in the background. Staff only need to know to press the right button which is pretty simple/basic training.

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There's some people making a very simple situation very complicated. The bakery is takeaway only, they've put an table and chairs in the shop with the intention of being for waiting customers.
Some customers (I doubt OP is the only one) has used that table and chairs to eat their purchase at, reasonable assumption by the OP, other customers and staff that there's no problem doing this. It becomes apparent, through whatever means, that it is a problem which the staff are made aware of and now OP has been made aware of.

That's literally it.

KnopkaPixie · 26/11/2024 19:43

PrincessHoneysuckle · 26/11/2024 19:41

Probably sick of clearing up pastry flakes

Possibly, but a bakery must be full of gluten related dandruff.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 26/11/2024 19:41

Probably sick of clearing up pastry flakes