Well, the Sainsbury's café have just lost themselves a regular customer

[TheLovelinessOfDemons]

Apparently, they're reopening as a coffee bar, no proper meals. I'll go somewhere else.

I meant I miss woolworths the shop too

Did you do your grocery shopping there or just use the cafe?

No, I shop in Tesco still , but the cafe was great and cheap. Then the coffee shop people took over and it was all ' skinny lattes ' and expensive prices and muffins!
I guess Sainsbury's will go the same way I bet.

Seeing the references to woolies has made me smile and remember my Dsis when asked by my ridiculously wonderful Gran what she wanted for her birthday she answered "Some smellies from woolies or boots ".

My very rural Gran who only ever shopped in kwik save after walking the 3 miles across fields to a bus stop interpreted that in a way only she could.

My Dsis opened a pair of hand knitted wooly boot slippers love that memory

I didn't think they'd even re opened yet. My local ones have not.

They opened a big new Sainsbury's a few miles from us. Lovely huge cafe, was only open a few months and been shut for longer than it was ever open. Such a waste of space.

Tbh I didn't my think Sainsbury's will lose any sleep over it

Opening June 21st.

I think Blackpool Woolies had a cafe too.

And round here we had the Normid Homemaker cafe (North Midland Co op)

No way!!! I love their meals! Good value and yummy.

@EachandEveryone

I’m sat In Morrissons now and the menu has been slimmed right down. No small breakfasts or anything.

I had a small breakfast today in morrisns,it's the £5.50 one

[quote NoProblem123]@LadyVymes Completely understandable!

Mushrooms need to be cooked with love ❤️[/quote]
And a fuckton of butter

@hatcoatscarfalcohol I used to have breakfast or a coffee then do the shopping. I still do shop there every day. I needed that time to calm down after getting my 9yo son with ADHD to school.

My local Sainbury's is also reopening for teas, coffee, cakes, etc. I don't recall seeing anyone eating a meal there, just drinks and snacks.

The difference is that ours was always packed with people eating meals, particularly after school and breakfast at the weekend. Whole families used to go. We did until it became too stressful for one DC and too stimulating for the other. People used to travel for the meals.

@Comefromaway

I think Blackpool Woolies had a cafe too.

And round here we had the Normid Homemaker cafe (North Midland Co op)

Normid breakfast was fabulous! School holidays when you had to go to the supermarket with your mum made bearable!

Not profitable to them so they need to try a new business model.

Our Sainsbury's always had a standard sized coffee listed as STD coffee - which used to put me off a bit.

@AmyDudley

Our Sainsbury's always had a standard sized coffee listed as STD coffee - which used to put me off a bit.

😂 They need a new drinks menu!

@TheLovelinessOfDemons

The proper meals were extremely popular, throughout the day. I suspect that Sainsbury's make enough money not to care about profit from the café.

Sadly not: www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/28/sainsburys-slumps-to-261m-loss-on-back-of-covid-costs

I’ve never seen any supermarket with any sort of cafe, including Sainsbury’s. None I know of serve even drinks.

That's a shame. Fond memories of walking to one near us when kids were babies for mostly a drink and a snack but later for lunches with toddlers. Don't live near enough to do that anymore but a shame as the kids would still love fish & chips etc. Hope mozzas don't go down that same route, that would really be a loss for older folks near all the ones I've visited (across three counties, all full of elderly people having their lunches).

Noooooo I’ve been waiting for Sainsbury’s cafes to open. We’ve got two in South London with huge car parks, they’re lovely and clean with well maintained toilets. A great place for mums with babies to meet.

I’ve been going to M&S cafe in same retail park, but it’s pricey and not the same, no fish and chips for under a fiver and so on. Im gutted.

The staff in Sainsbury’s are so nice too.

Whenever I went it was regular clientele of older people and mums with young kids, what a shame to lose somewhere warm, friendly and affordable to meet.

To all the pps worried about their local Sainsbury's café, it might be decided on an individual store basis. I hope so for other people's sake anyway.

I’ve never eaten in a supermarket or a shop cafe! I’m surprised at how many people do to be honest. If I’m hungry, I’d either eat before I went, buy something nice from said supermarket to eat at home or go out somewhere half decent to eat! My local Sainsburys has a Starbucks and the nearest tescos has its own tescos cafe which stinks of greasy hash browns. Never been into either, wouldn’t miss them (likely wouldn’t even notice) if they disappeared. I don’t drink tea/coffee though so the appeal of stopping off for one wouldn’t enter my head regardless of where I was.
OP just think to yourself that you’ve saved a couple of quid!