Boycotting restaurant in Croydon for charging for the presence of babies.

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To boycott this restaurant over their new policy- breastfeeding mothers are to be charged 3.00 pounds just for the presence of their baby in the establishment.
Feel free to let them know how you feel if you also want to take a stand against such greedy and non children friendly policies.

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065284/Mother-charged-3-baby-Britains-largest-restaurant.html

If they're still getting queues out the door every night now after being closed earlier in the year because of a rat infestation (or so the rumour goes) then I doubt this will make much difference.

I get more miffed over their non-transferable deposits tbh, that seems a lot cheekier to me.

It's a very child friendly place actually, and pretty baby friendly too. Just as long as you pay....

I have just read the article, its good that they don't charge for babies, they should not do, but I can understand for toddlers/pre school kids.

I would love a buggy free coffee shop..

I am going there tonight

My XDH and I took our toddlers to cafes/restaurants occasionally but they had been taught how to behave at a dining table so were no problemn for other diners.

Now, though, I dislike having other people's children in the cafe/restaurant because so many of them are allowed to run wild, shouting, bumping into our chairs and generally spoiling any atmosphere. they have obviously not been taught how tobehave at a dining able. Perhaps their parents were not taught either.

YANBU in the event i need to visit Croydon I'll be avoiding the place. thats so wrong. I was never charged to take dd anywhere in her pram.

In the summer my mum took my nephews to a buffet restaurant. The youngest had been weaned for about 8 weeks and the other was 3. They charged the standard child price for the older one but for the youngest they charged 95p which my mum thought was a bargain as he probably threw more food than that on the floor!

actually just read the end of the article - might not boycott after all

:o at all these people getting so aerated over a non-issue. It was a mistake!

Did anyone even read the article

If they are charging simply to take children through the doors then that's not on. If as it seems, however, it's a nominal fee for toddlers to eat from their buffet then that's totally understandable and fine and dandy.

the restaurant looks like a piece of shit anyway, its like saying "boycott the abattoir open day". next!

Yes, please read the article first - they are not charging for babies. It was a one off mistake - stupid yes- but not the company policy.

Bit silly to start a thread after not reading the whole article. Silly member of staff, but the restaurant has a fair policy as far as I can see.

I don't see the problem. Charging £3 for toddlers what's wrong with that?

This particular restaurant is all about pile it high and sell it cheap, I should think they make ridiculously small margins and rely on turning covers. I personally wouldn't eat there because it's not my cup of tea BUT their profits are derived from covers not plates of food so it makes sense to charge toddlers who are in effect taking up a place for a paying customer.

Is the idea like corkage?

Might be good to read the article before complaining. They don't charge for babies. This is a bit of a non - story

they are a chain? think there's one in bristol

it seats 800. You think they are losing that much custom from a few buggies? What about the fact that with every buggy is usually an entire family of paying customers?
Looks like a hole anyway.

When it was published yesterday- I saw the link on facebook there was no apology , simply a no comment from the company.

I think it is great if I alert all of those on here who approve the policy- you guys go to cosmo and the rest of us more tolerant folk( when it comes to babies and kids as a parent I am naturally sympathetic as families like to eat out together and it is only the UK that has such a anti children vibe going on) can avoid you and avoid patronising establishments that have so little tolerance.Killing tow birds with one stone.

Please anyone on here who likes a child free atmosphere, go, go , go to Cosmos- leave other places for the rest of us who think it reasonable to eat out with a family.
In a recession, restaurants cannot afford to lose business and they will due to this publicity I am sure.

They only charge £3 for toddlers don't they? So it is hardly an anti-family policy.

Plus, who cares anyway. There is a Cosmo in Swindon, I walk past it most days, it looks like the canteen from Prisoner Cell Block H. Those all you can eat buffet places are a sack of shit

Cosmo is a brilliant restaurant. I hadnt heard of it until I read the thread moaning about it in the summer, because someone was (shock horror!) not allowed to take their own food because there was apparently nothing that their little darling would like.. ... so I gave it a try, and it was superb.

There were plenty of kids in there, pleased to say that they were all well behaved, and there was no shortgage of food choices for them.

In fact I would defy anyone to be unable to find something that they like in there, because there was the biggest range of buffet I have ever seen anywhere apart from in Vegas!

Is it not just chinese slop then squeaky?

Indeed the restaurant has now responded and apparently a rogue member of staff is responsible- this was not the case yesterday when a no comment was all they would provide.......who knows the flurry of e mails that an article like that will have provoked may have encouraged them to find out why such a ridiculous charge was levied.

Take your money away( or threaten to) from an establishment when you don't like the way they operate and they soon change the way they operate.
So to the poster who suggested....nobody cares....believe me businesses do care when they garner such negative publicity.

GetOrf
Some people like Chinese slop.It may well be delicious for some tastes.
Some people even like Las Vegas......and buffets.
Each to their own......it was the anti child policy that bothered me rather than whatever the quality of their meals is.