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AIBU?

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Original poster

To think that my local cafe is a bit of a joke

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FlowersAndShit · 20/03/2016 08:43

I've been wanting to go to my local cafe for months - but whenever I walk past it's always full of huns and 4x4 pushchairs. It's a small place with about 10 tables, it's closed every Tuesday and now and again they will close it for private functions.

I just want to try their amazing looking cake and have a coffee with my mum, but I have to book a table, even at non peak times. Their Facebook page is full of comments from friends of the owner asking for the owner to 'save me a table hun' and 'save me a slice of that galaxy cake hun' so that ordinary customers rarely get a look in.

AIBU?

OP posts:

WorraLiberty · 20/03/2016 09:21

Get on their FB page and ask them to save you a table?

53rdAndBird · 20/03/2016 09:21

There's a new cafe near me that's always queued out of the door at weekends. Madly popular. It is annoying, I agree, but you can't really expect them to turn away paying customers just in case someone else wants to stop by!

Buckinbronco · 20/03/2016 09:21

I find this post really really strange. If a restaurant was booked up 6 months in advance and you couldn't get a table you desperately wanted one with your mum you would either book and wait or decide it's not worth it. What makes a cafe so different that you feel qualified to comment on their business model with some kind of entitlement that you, as someone who lives locally, should be able to get in before others?

Or was this post just designed to make a dig at mothers with buggies who sit in cafes all day nursing a latte and making mess?

ilovesooty · 20/03/2016 09:23

They obviously have enough business from their regular customer base.

Sheezus · 20/03/2016 09:27

Are you bothered you're not part of the clique or something?
If the other people can book tables why should you not have to?
Also, maybe the cafe owners are happy with 10 tables and don't want to expand.

EponasWildDaughter · 20/03/2016 09:28

I want to go but you have to book and I don't want to go enough to book.

Don't go then? Go to costa elsewhere.

leelu66 · 20/03/2016 09:31

Surely if you wanted to go somewhere to eat 'for months' and wanted to take your mum there, you would just call up and book a table for a day when you're both free?

Sounds like you're intimidated by the 'huns' tbh.

SaucyJack · 20/03/2016 09:31

I don't think the OP is making a dig at the other customers Bronco

I think the apparent cliqueyness of this particular cafe has triggered off a social anxiety in the OP that she's unable or unwilling to recognise- so is complaining about their business model instead.

Snowshimmer · 20/03/2016 09:34

I want a description of the huns, do they wear funny helmets?

ReginaBlitz · 20/03/2016 09:38

Seriously? There are other cafes and other cakes have you seriously waited months for coffee and cake? Look at it this way if you had been able to get a table every week you would probably be a chubber by now, every cloud and all that Hun.

curren · 20/03/2016 09:40

I don't think the OP is making a dig at the other customers Bronco

she is clearly having a dig. Why not say the cafe is always full?

Why the multiple references to 'hun'?

It may be triggering something. However she is having a dig at the customers.

Chances are, if she actually went, she wouldn't enjoy it because of the other people in there. She clearly has an issue with them.

witsender · 20/03/2016 09:45

Pmsl, full of huns? I doubt they are there all day every day

DreamFever · 20/03/2016 09:47

Can you get cake to take away?

BlueMoonRising · 20/03/2016 09:48

Do they do coffee and cake to takeaway?

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 20/03/2016 09:56

From your description, I'd rather chew on my leg than visit your cafe. It sounds like a cliquey nightmare and packed with people.
No thanks.
Galaxy cake is tempting but you could make your own (or buy one in Sainsbury)

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FlowersAndShit · 20/03/2016 09:57

Curren Thanks for the psychoanalysis

They do takeaways, so I'll probably do that. I just think it's ridiculous to have to book a table in advance just to have a bit of cake. A trip like this is usually last minute, not planned days in advance.

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OrchardDweller · 20/03/2016 10:07

What's a hun????

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 20/03/2016 10:11

Hun is a nomadic warlike person who ravaged Britain in the 4th century.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 20/03/2016 10:12

Also a derogatory term for a German.

Mumoftwoyoungkids · 20/03/2016 10:13

The regular customers are just friends and family of the owner, local customers don't get much of a look in. I think they need to expand their premises to cater to a wider pool of people, which will get them more custom from different people.

They are running a business not providing a public service. There will be a time when friends and family stop coming so much and they don't want to have expanded beyond which they can not fill.

leelu66 · 20/03/2016 10:14

So you're annoyed at the people in the cafe because they had the foresight to book a table, which you aren't willing to do?

witsender · 20/03/2016 10:18

Just book a table if you want to go. I know that you suffer from various things and surely the certainty of a booked table would be better for that than turning up on the off chance? There is zero point moaning about how busy it is because you feel that on principle you should be able to turn up when you want.

Just book!

TondelayaDellaVentamiglia · 20/03/2016 10:20

are you always so petulant? And passive

I want cake, I want to go to a lovely cafe, but I won't book, won't wait, won't join in

it's not fair! whinge whinge they are all ridiculous! whine whine no I can't join in bleat bleat

You are >< this far away from everyone hates me and a foot stamp

Just listen to yourself, book a bloody table, slap a smile on your face and take your mother out for cake and TRY to enjoy a nice coffee and cake

Piemernator · 20/03/2016 10:22

I think Hun is used in the modern sense as a shortening of honey as opposed to rampaging warriors.

Piemernator · 20/03/2016 10:24

I often plan trips to cafes if I'm meeting a friend there so know I will be there at a certain time.

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