To have expected a soft play to serve toast to a baby

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I have just left a play centre early and really annoyed. I forgot to bring a snack for my ds who has just turned one.
I was going to buy a banana from the soft play cafe but they were black.
I asked for a piece of toast and was told very rudely no as it was not breakfast time . I asked if they had an suitable baby snacks and was offered quavers! I asked again politely for toast as they sold nothing suitable for a baby but was told no ( despite a loaf and toaster in full view)
AIBU to think it is good customer service just to make a piece of flipping toast for a baby?

YABU Because you forgot a snack for your child. You absolutely rotten mother

Soft play were BU for...well...just for being morons. Cook some fucking bread.

I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but if for some reason the toaster was out of commission/partially dismantled for cleaning, couldn't they have sold a slice of bread?

Or just said: 'oh, go on love. Have it.'

I just thought in the mid-afternoon between meals if the baby showed signs of hungry you'd give milk, not solid food, so it sounded strange to me

At a year old? Milk is a drink at a year not a snack.

arethereanyleftatall - perhaps she should be thinking about all that potential toast-related profit. It's profits wot keeps her in a job innit?

I love this thread too - it's one of those threads that is so obviously a YANBU, but then 867 posts and 3 months later it's still going

Maybe the lady was allergic to heated bread and forgot her special gloves?

Got to consider all the angles see?

There is more salt in bread with butter than a pack of the quavers. Should have just given them.

I might just have to google that I'm so invested. Although quavers do contain MSG.

I did google bread/quavers but couldn't work out the sodium/salt per mg thing (and then realised that was time I was never going to get back so stopped...)

Maybe the lady had SN? Or mental health issues? (these always crop up on MN...) Or maybe she had a wheat AND glove allergy and couldn't pick up the bread to put it in the toaster even if she'd wanted to?

Did the OP say she planned to butter the toast?

sirchenjin and Haroldlloyd you are making my day.. Truly! Keep up the good work. We need more of this insightful commentary to get to the bottom of some of the toasty issues in this thread... Love it!!

(and if I could make my caps grow any bigger OP you would see I'm screaming YANBU at the TOP OF MY LUNGS... But you know that. Hell we all know that...some people are just having a bad day...)

It was unclear if the toast was to be buttered.

A standard slice of buttered toast according to the Calorie Count website has 162 mg of sodium. One bag of Quavers has 0.45g of salt (That is very nearly 50% of what a baby under one is supposed to have in a day) and 0.18g of sodium.

By my reckoning the toast has 0.162 g of sodium, the Quavers 0.18g.

So, its close by Jove but I think the Quavers pips the toast.

YANBU

Is is possible the server hasn't had the correct health and safety training to use the toaster? So when she said that it wasn't breakfast time, what she meant was that the staff who were allowed to use the toaster had left?

Although as she could make coffee that's possibly not it!

From the sounds of this amateur place they probably had some vile own brand marg rather than butter, so less flavour and less salt.

Are we completely certain beans on toast wasn't a menu option? I was fond of the beans outrage.

Incredible i never thought of that. Last place i worked we had to turn ovens off for 30mins to clean the things as they were so bloody hot. I think not being able to serve toast after certain time silly but if it is a rule then employees are going to follow them. My boss was awful i wouldnt have given her another reason to make my life hell no matter how stupid it was.

Do you serve toast? No fuck off its not breakfast time. What can I have then?

Beans on toast.

It was great while it lasted.

We havent discounted cheese on toast, egg on toast or tomatoes on toast yet though.

I honestly believe yabu, I know lots don't, for the following reasons:

1. There was an option available for a 1 year old, sausage, chips and beans, so no need to go off the menu.
2. None of you have any idea how their till system works. You might not be able to ring something in randomly.

3.The server may not have felt it was her place to go off menu and, decide a price for the toast. What price, what margin? . She might really need a job and was just sticking to the rules. 4.maybe they had no butter. 5.maybe if they used the bread in afternoon, they would have none left for breakfasts the next morning, because their delivery comes after. 6.a soft play centre is for children, including babies, and they have decided upon their menu.

1. Their menu will be decided upon to maximise their profit, so they would rather sell a whole meal than a snack. And just the one meal, economies of scale.

Etc etc

I know I will get the piss ripped for the above points, but the point is - none if you know why they didn't serve toast. You don't own the cafe, you have no idea what their reasons are. The above points are just possible examples of why not.

Can't believe I'm getting so riled about toast. Or lack thereof. It just pisses me off when people assume they know how to run a business better than the actual owner. You don't.

So, yabu to expect to go off menu.

Yanbu that that menu in these places are terrible.

Do one year olds eat sausage, chips and beans? The ops baby was prem and has an adjusted age so has only been weaned for a few months as well

a one year old can eat anything. it's not a great meal admittedly.

The way I understand it the toast was a menu item however only served for part of the day, therefore it would be accounted for on the till and it was 60p.

DS would have happily eaten sausage, chips and beans from about 10 months. Its not something I would have given regulary but he would have eaten it. But what other 1 year olds would eat is irrelevent really as every child is different.

Is toast on its own available as a breakfast item or is it sausage on toast, full english with toast type things?

I just can't see the OPs baby eating that for the reasons described

Oh and stop making me hungry