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To think this was the most pathetically stupid thing ever

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IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 14/09/2017 12:02

Went to a supermarket cafe with 2yo DC, both our meals came after a silly long wait and mine was grim and stone cold so I asked for a refund (they offered me a choice of replacement or refund but it had taken so long to begin with and DC was tucking into hers at that point so refund was easier)
She has finished and was eating her fruit bag so I picked at a couple of chips that she hadn't eaten...she hadn't eaten a huge amount anyway! When the manager came barrelling over and whisked the plate from me to infront of her and told me "that meal is for age 10 and under not for adults" I said "she's finished her meal and mine was inedible" so he then said he would have to ask me to leave if I was going to eat another chip and did I want to be embarrassed infront of everyone...so we left anyway

So now a half plate of food has been wasted over 3 fucking chips

Fucking insania

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PoisonousSmurf · 14/09/2017 13:18

Tweet it loud and proud! Grin

SandyDenny · 14/09/2017 13:20

I knew it was going to be Morrisons Grin

The cafe service is terrible in my local one too but they are usually good on the customer services desk.

Name and shame on social media

December11 · 14/09/2017 13:23

I would have asked for a box to take it away for the child for later :)

We brought my elderly aunt for dinner once, and the place refused her a half portion. Its such a waste of food and money.

Thewolvesarerunningagain · 14/09/2017 13:23

as kurri said upthread in the states they will box up leftover food. Maybe you could've asked for the rest of the kids meal to take away. You did pay for it.

shirtyQwerty · 14/09/2017 13:24

But it is for under 10s.

It's very annoying when parents try to get children's meals for themselves or older children.

x2boys · 14/09/2017 13:26

Her child was two, shirty she got a meal for herself and a child's meal for the child maybe try reading the op?

NataliaOsipova · 14/09/2017 13:28

This is ridiculous - especially as you'd ordered an adult meal for yourself as well. I spend my life eating kids' things. Every time I go out with the DDs, they choose what they want. I choose what I want. I ask if they are sure about their choices and if they wouldn't prefer what I was going to have. They say no. I buy the food. They then decide mine looks nicer and I end up eating theirs. Every sodding time. If everywhere were like this Morrisons, then I swear I would starve.....

greathat · 14/09/2017 13:29

I knew it would be Morrisons from the long wait and fruit bag. To be fair my local one is lovely, Ds and I used to go every week until he started school. Glad you've complained! Hope you get somewhere with it!

IamPickleRick · 14/09/2017 13:33

I'd have tipped the chips in to my handbag before I walked out. Grin

I hate these "kids meals for kids only" rules. I often can only eat a kids size portion.

BastardGoDarkly · 14/09/2017 13:33

Why Shirty ? They're smaller portions, the place isn't doing it out of their love for the under 10's Hmm

Sparklingbrook · 14/09/2017 13:38

IHope our Waitrose has two cafes, a wine bar and a sushi bar. Grin

Our Morrisons has a huge cafe where the chairs are nailed to the floor and you have to make your own tea, and you get those teeny tiny UHT milk thimbles.

HerRoyalChocolateBunny · 14/09/2017 13:50

The best pub near use does not do 'kids meals' but 'meals for those with smaller appetites'.

Covers all bases, and means it is not just processed crap that places like to palm off to kids.

YANBU OP.

x2boys · 14/09/2017 13:53

I have never enjoyed a meal at Morrison's and ds 1 doesn't like their cheese burgers because they use grated cheese rather then those plastic cheese slices Hmm

Sparklingbrook · 14/09/2017 13:55

Was it Morrisons cafe that couldn't do omelettes because they had run out. Whole shop of eggs but i think the omelettes come ready to be heated up presumably.

Bit OT but M&S cafe can't do a bacon roll without butter. Hmm

EddChinasVagina · 14/09/2017 13:57

I wouldn't bother tweeting or emailing them, they're shocking at replying and when they finally do you get a half arsed apology from someone illiterate ☹️

guilty100 · 14/09/2017 13:57

I think if you return food, you can't really expect to eat it as well! But I do think it was very rude of the manager. Sounds like he had a right huff about something pretty insignificant. People are weird!

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IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 14/09/2017 13:57

Damn, I definitely should've tipped them into my bag!! Or 2yo bag as they were hers after all Wink

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MoonfaceAndSilky · 14/09/2017 13:58

It's very annoying when parents try to get children's meals for themselves or older children.

But OP didn't do this and even if she had, so what? The child's meal costs less but has less food on it, so why do they and you care who eats it?

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IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 14/09/2017 13:59

Er guilty I'd returned MY meal not hers...

Sparkling where do yo live?! Fancy a guest Wink

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Maudlinmaud · 14/09/2017 13:59

I am absolutely affronted on your behalf op. Absolutely.

Purplemeddler · 14/09/2017 14:01

I sort of get the thing restaurants do where they won't allow adults to order children's meals to eat themselves

It's very annoying when parents try to get children's meals for themselves or older children

Why? Why can't adults have small portions? If they effectively give you an adult portion for a kids' price that's one thing, but quite honestly you should be able to eat what you want and the sized meal you want. Some places do totally overblown portion sizes and I say that as someone who really likes her food and can generally polish off a big meal.

The manager needs some customer service training. I think I would have let them make a scene in front of everyone else. It would have entertained them!

I think if you return food, you can't really expect to eat it as well

The OP returned HER meal. She is allowed to pick at her companion's, meal or indeed finish it for them. Whether or not that happens to be a child, adult or teen. Some places even do sharing plates where the whole idea is that you share each others. If I want to nick my husband's chip, I will. Nothing to do with the restaurant. DH might not like it, but that's by the by - he can always nick one back another time when I've got chips and he hasn't :)

Winterc00kie · 14/09/2017 14:11

This is absolute crackers and the manager sounds like a jobsworth bully.

splendide · 14/09/2017 14:14

It's very annoying when parents try to get children's meals for themselves or older children

How is this annoying? Annoying to who?

LadyDeadpool · 14/09/2017 14:15

Knew it had to be Morrisons! Went here with DH a couple of weeks back and the food was awful just completely dry, baked beans had no liquid to them and the fried egg was solid. Not surprised you had to return yours but what a jobsworth the manager was.

MoosicalDaisy · 14/09/2017 14:16

That's theft, you had paid for it, the meal was originally given to an under 10 year old, so he'd rather see food go to waste into a bin rather than it being finished off by someone else...