Would you give me the replacement chips?

Tbh OP, if you act like this when things are your fault, you might be better off not taking your child out to eat - I don’t think the local cafes will be able to afford it.

This they wouldn’t be “replaced” it’s a new order!

Personally I would because 99% of what you've paid for would be the service, cooking, overheads of renting the space, staff wages etc. And you'd ordered other food. The actual cost of the chips would be negligible.

Staff probably have to follow a policy though, so not surprised you were refused.

I’m not one of those portion people either and I’m the same. One standard portion is too much (and I eat a LOT)!

Sorry but YABU

Its not their fault your baby / child knocked over the chips.

You say you went to have your first serving of noodles - so basically you were eating your own food and not paying attention to the baby?

Perhaps better to keep your eyes on them til they’ve finished or at least mostly finished eating when that young - or give them their food bit by bit so they can’t knock it all over.

Tbh if I witnessed this in the cafe I worked in I would have given more chips but only if the manager wasn't around

Of course you are being unreasonable ffs! And cheeky as all hell! Your child knocked the chips off…you should have supervised more closely!

Your entitlement is astounding! And the ‘soft voice pleading’ is fucking embarrassing frankly!

£5 for chips for a toddler. YABU for that alone. But also for being a CF and wanting a freebie.

Chips at my local chippie costs less and you get a massive amount that would be suitable for a very hungry adult rather than a baby

A "standard" portion of chips at our local chippy is enough for me and DH and we still chuck some away.

Oh God - I promise I'm not one of those "teeny tiny" portion people!!

Tbh I’d have just picked the chips up and let my kid eat them . Toddlers put everything in their mouths anyway and a bit of floor dirt will boost their immune system !

Oh god l am imagining a pretty please pathetic little voice, l wouldn't show myself up for a few chips.

What on earth 😳 I’ve worked in restaurants and hospitality all my life and never once ever given out free replacement food because the customer dropped it. Madness.

yabu

And ‘pleading’…. Please tell me you are joking. Where does it end? You should have cleaned it up, offered to mop and apologised, not try to blag free chips.

I bet the local cafes love it when you lot come in 🤣

I don’t understand your mum friend’s logic about it being less than 5 mins. Everybody with a child who was fussy, changed their mind or played with their food instead would try and get freebies. Hospitality is really struggling and can’t go round giving away food.

How many chips do you get for a fiver? Chips at my local chippie costs less and you get a massive amount that would be suitable for a very hungry adult rather than a baby.

I am actually embarrassed that you would even ask. How ridiculous. The staff didn’t spill the food therefore why would they replace them?

If you choose to give something to a toddler then you can’t make someone else responsible when it throws them everywhere.

Plus you have caused them more work, you didn’t say you cleaned up the mess your child made and even if you tried, they would still have had to mop the floor etc.

The manager had obviously had a lot of experience with entitled mothers

If I'd seen this happen and recognised that you'd just bought the chips from my counter, I might have offered to replace them for free if permitted. But I can easily believe that there was a policy not to do this and the frontline worker didn't have a choice, and once the manager was involved she wanted to uphold the rules and support her employee. So, very nice if they'd done it right off the bat, but not a strike against them that they didn't.

Soft voice sounds irrelevant; if they'd replace your chips they should also replace Fran Drescher's chips in the same circumstances. And of course you were being "nice" when asking for an extra accommodation.

OP, you are coming across as so entitled.
Particularly as you "continued to plead in a soft voice"
The whining and pleading would have annoyed me too.
Of course they shouldn't give you free chips if your toddler kicks them off the table!

I’d go and buy more because it was my fault, not theirs. I find it weird you took a pic with you to show them. Did your toddler have compo face on?

Potentially, in a restaurant, where they’ve watched it happen they might offer to just replace them.
But in this scenario, when they have no idea what happened to the chips (you may well have eaten them and then taken a pic of random chips on the floor) they are under no obligation to give you free food.
Maybe, if you’d been less entitled, and ordered more whilst explaining why you needed them they might have offered. Think you were cheeky to just ask/demand free stuff!

Of course yabu!

How cheeky! Was it their fault your baby dropped them?. No. It was £5!

What sort of reasoning is this;

One of the mums says that it’s been less than 5 mins and they didn’t touch the chips, I should be able to ask for a replacement.🥴🥴🥴🥴🥴

why?! This is baffling genuinely

you are so unreasonable to ask for a replacement

Wow really? If they saw what happened and offered that would be super kind and generous of them but no way should you ask.. bit cheeky sorry

Are you serious? You spill your chips, so ask the retailer, who is at fault in no way whatsoever, to give you some more? I’ve heard it all now. Your brass neck is astonishing op. And as an aside, the fact the child hadn’t touched them, and it was less than five minutes, matters in what universe? Good grief.