To take fruit to a coffee shop

[JaceLancs]

The taking your own tea bag thread reminded me
Would you think I was a CF for taking my own food (usually fruit) to a Cafe or coffee shop
I always buy a drink and if it’s vaguely early enough porridge but I usually take a box of strawberries or raspberries, or something like plums or apricots
I’m on a diet and have lots of food allergies so am pretty limited to what I can eat anyway
Most cafes even if they sell fruit only have bananas apples or oranges which I’m not that fond of

I wouldn’t think anything of it.

Not at all unreasonable but they may not like it and could ask you to stop !

Personally I wouldn't think of taking food to a cafe and I doubt the cafe would like it either.

Yabu they have bills and overheads to pay and you buy a drink then get your own food out, if you want to eat your own food have a picnic somewhere

I'm not sure they're allowed to let you eat food bought elsewhere in a cafe because of health and safety (officially, but it's probably far more likely financially oriented)

Meh no one will say anything because you are still a paying customer. If you buy a drink and porridge and put a few of your own berries on the top that's no biggie smalls.

I think that’s rather cheeky!

rude AF imo

I think that’s extremely unreasonable. I’d only take baby food and even then only if I was eating food I bought there myself.

I did this the other day, needed to feed the baby so I just bought a bottle of water and ate my own fruit. I'm on a diet and they didn't sell anything healthy

It's pretty rude to eat your own food in a restaurant or cafe.

It depends. If you are just munching in your fruit while drink g your coffee that's fine. But if you sit down, lay out an obscene amiy t if fruit and proceed to sit there and eat for the next hour that isn't OK.

I'm vegan, when going out for coffee with friends I carry a small flask of soy milk, couple of nakd bars and fruit, usually a banana or apple. I let my friends chose the cafe as they like cake. I ask if they do soy milk if they do I order a soy latte, I ask if any food is vegan if there is something I buy it. If cafe has no soy milk or vegan food I order an Americano and have no shame using my own soy and eating what I have brought with me.

I'm with friends who buy fancy coffee and lots of cake, I will buy the coffee but if there is nothing for me to eat I refuse to starve. I've never been challenged but neither do I flaunt my contraband.

For your 2 yr old, ok.

For you? Really?

Hmmmm. On the face of it, I guess it shouldn't matter, but I can't help wondering: if all customers bought a drink (thus entitling them to a nice sit-down on the cafe chairs) and then produced a picnic, would the cafe stay in business? I think not. They rely on a proportion of customers needing to eat, so I think it's only fair to at least combine your own food with some of theirs. I wouldn't lose sleep over it though.

Yeah, I’d think that rude.

As an adult, can you not just eat before or after the drink in the cafe? Or check out cafes in your area that cater to you? I’m sorry- it seems a tad pathetic that you (and a few others) have to have a packed snack like a toddler. I understand that you want to go out, and have a right to- but you can surely juts order something compliant and eat before or after? Every cafe I’ve ever seen supplies soy milk (another responder) I don’t understand taking your own- almost seems more like point making than need.

You should take your coffee out and eat and drink not in the cafe. People bringing their own food into cafes isn't ok!

How rude! Why would you think it's acceptable?
If you don't like the menu, but a take-away drink there and go and have a picnic somewhere else.

Most cafes even if they sell fruit only have bananas apples or oranges which I’m not that fond of too bad, go to a cafe that serves the fruits you like, or to a smoothie bar, or to a supermarket.

This attitude is a lot more reasonable:
I ask if any food is vegan if there is something I buy it. If cafe has no soy milk or vegan food I order an Americano and have no shame using my own soy and eating what I have brought with me.
Many people with food allergies will do the same.

Goodness, for some people it would appear going to a cafe is something of an ordeal. I sometimes wonder how some people cope in day to day life. Eat your fruit and enjoy your coffee.

Cheeky and rude
You aren’t a toddler who is going to have a meltdown if you get hungry
If there is nothing you can eat due to allergies then it’s a bit different but if you are choosing not to eat what’s on offer then sit there with a water ( you have paid for) or don’t go

I think it’s rude. A pouch for a baby totally fine, food for you not so much.

YABU

The café is there to make money, not provide you with a public service.

My friends own a cafe and it's really hard work for not a lot of reward. I feel sorry for them when I read threads like this.