to think that Little Chef...

[SparkyMcSparrowLaidMiniEggs]

...is not a great place for a planned Easter lunch out?

Tis what my MIL suggested

Oh dear, your MIL has a strange idea of what constitutes a meal out. I ate at Little Chef once and it was both expensive and shudderingly bad. Nasty microwave food, basically. Never again.

It's Little Chef, of course it's expensive.
Actually, if it was free I'd still say you were ripped off.

Do you know what made it worse?
Dh agreed with her Fucking arsehole
I am far to polite to have said anything in front of her but if he really thought we were going there for lunch he would have got a kick in the balls!

We are now going to the seaside and hopefully some lovely little cafe

We once ate at a Staggeringly horrendous place in Minnis Bay which was mil's favourite place.
It was grim. Stank of fried food and everything came in batter.

Ooh a cone of chips sitting on the seafront Sparky. (Still better than the Little Chef)

You are spoilt for lovely little cafes in Somerset too!

I went to Little Chef last year and it was quite nice. Good breakfasts and lovely burgers. Not haute cuisine but as nice as any decent pub food which is all we needed. Prices have gone up a fair bit though.

Very expensive and serves what i would call "plastic food" Why would your MIL suggested it? are you meeting in the middle on a motorway for lunch?

You must have found a nice one Angry Are they franchises?.

DS likes Little Chef. There is a Hestonised one near us. Last time we went they had run out of everything we wanted and it was COLD (the restaurant I mean). We've told him we aren't going again.

MissFaversham She suggested going out for lunch Sunday, great! I told her that we would probably need to book and we should decide where to go, so we could plan times ect.

Little Chef was suggested and agreed
Thankfully though we decided that we would make a day of it, hence the seaside. I will be telling dh NOT to slow down anywhere in sight of a Little Chef!

We went to one somewhere on the welsh boarder while driving from holyhead...it was fine, and pretty cheap (for us euro spenders). Not somewhere I'd choose for a meal out, but it was perfectly nice as a stop gap. Perhaps they vary a bit.

My mums idea of a perfect birthday night out treat was..... little chef.

Horrible place

Little thief you mean? opps groan, couldn't resist

Aargh! This brings back memories, my parents used to take us all out for dinner at a Little Chef, used to make us dress up in Sunday best and everything! Us poor DCs had no idea that this was really quite odd, I remember mentioning to someone at school and got the piss taken out of me all day!

My dh calls it The Little Thief!!

Husband and I made the mistake of popping into the one at spean bridge in the highlands on our way back from Honeymoon on skye! ( we were starving and no where else was open ).

Jeez, I spent the night on the toilet and husband spent two days trying to go to the toilet.

@ Little Theif

Many years ago, Little Chef was on the posher side of life so we did go sometimes with the children for a meal out. I remember distinctly having liver and bacon which was absolutely delicious and it was cooked from scratch.

I wqill never go to Travelodge or Premier Inn because you don't get B&B. It's B&B that I want.

*will

We stopped at one a year or so ago on the way to somewhere ..overpriced, not wonderful but not awful .... but we did all get a lolly!

We had a lunch for four of us there today. It was actually very good. And as I've got the loyalty card it was £10 off.
I love our local one.

I'm not surprised they do a loyalty card, gotta do something to get people to come back

We call it The Little Shit.

It's known as the Little Thief here too. My DH loves it because he passive-aggressively hates his employer so when he travels, he insists on the whole team having massive breakfasts there with all the trimmings and then putting it on expenses