To think this is a brilliant business idea and ask why it doesn't exist already?

[peppinagiro]

Picture the scene. I've been pushing my baby round and round to sleep in her pushchair for an hour. It is boiling. I am hot and thirsty and hungry. I can't go inside anywhere to buy anything because she'll wake up, and obv can't leave her outside on her own. In France or Italy I'd stop at a cafe with outdoor tables and get served, but there aren't many places with outdoor table service in the UK.

I need coffee and cake. I have passed lots of others in the same boat.

What is needed are some sort of napping-baby-parent coffee kiosks in key places, where I don't need to go inside and people make the coffee quietly withour all the exuberant banging of the ground- holder thing

Who's in?

coffee drinking pavement hoggers

There's a lovely static coffee hut with seating just before the southbank, nearer to lambeth bridge. not helpful

What they need is a machine like a fairground horse ride thing, that you can push the pram on apply the break and it goes around and around.

Where in SE London are you? I can think of plenty near me, including in my nearest park. I spend a fortune on their chocolate brownies. Still, it's never unreasonable to want decent coffee. Especially when your on nap patrol.

In Montevideo it is common to see waiters in the street delivering a tray of coffee to an office.

Maybe cafes should do a delivery to the street service, better still deliver tot he park.

your baby will not implode if you leave her outside asleep for a moment while you order at the counter.

Even on the mean streets of South London, your baby is probably more likely to be struck by lightning than abducted from outside a cafe while you nip in to get a takeaway coffee.

Gawd - buy a quick bottle water/can pop or something- YABU posting this!

Peppi, I'm ashamed to admit in my sleep deprived hallucinatory state, I would mutter and rage at passing lorries and mad bus drivers zooming by, even adorable but barking puppies in the park would be temporarily silenced by my glare. Oh the countless of times I'd mutter for fucks sake when bubbly mobile conversations pierced the otherwise quiet air in a remote part of the park which was always empty.

For those of us outside London, there is also a need for drive-through grocery shops, for when the baby is asleep in the car, you can't leave them in the car to pop into a shop, you don't want to wake them up, but you NEED a pint of milk/loaf of bread. Yes I know you can shop online but I'm talking about when you just need a couple of bits and can't get a space right outside the local shop.

In my head these places would also sell nutritious healthy hot and cold food of the non-MaccyD's variety. I used to eat way too much of that kind of crap when the DCs were babies, driving whilst they napped.

And yes, good coffee.

NormHonal
For those of us outside London, there is also a need for drive-through grocery shops, for when the baby is asleep in the car, you can't leave them in the car to pop into a shop, you don't want to wake them up, but you NEED a pint of milk/loaf of bread. Yes I know you can shop online but I'm talking about when you just need a couple of bits and can't get a space right outside the local shop

Now THAT is an idea I can get behind

Where I live there are tons of coffee vendors AND cafes with outside tables. On every nearby high street (London).