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Not allowed to cut up pizza in Wetherspoons?

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Calvinsmam · 30/01/2019 10:56

We were in Wetherspoons at the weekend having a cheap and cheerful lunch and my DN had a pizza.
We asked them if they could cut up her pizza for her because the last time it wasn’t and the waitress told us they weren’t allowed to anymore and don’t even have pizza cutters in the kitchen. We laughed as we assumed it was a joke but no when the pizza arrived it wasn’t cut up and the waitress said again that for health and safety reasons they weren’t allowed to use a pizza cutter, we asked if they could have used a knife and she said no. We were a bit Hmm
Then she came over with a very sharp steak knife and said we could cut it up ourselves with that if we wanted.

Is this a nationwide rule or is our local Wetherspoons a bit odd?

Also isn’t the owner of Wetherspoons desperate to get us out of the EU because of silly little rules like this?

OP posts:
Kkwowo · 01/02/2019 06:09

@villagelife77

No one asked you to make a comment and if Mumsnet is a joke don’t read or comment on anything, people are allowed to put their opinions and ask advice etc with out having attitude towards them like this!!!! New problem for today why are people so rude!!!!

Kkwowo · 01/02/2019 06:12

No I haven’t been to Italy actually I can’t really go anywhere I have had bone problems since I was a child and now have arthritis at a young age keep your opinions to yourself MummyOfTw0 you clearly have nothing better to do if you can come on Mumsnet and have bad opinions.

Kkwowo · 01/02/2019 06:31

@MummyOfTw0

Just to clear up it wasn’t about the pizza coming out sliced or not slices if someone can’t do it for themselves, Any normal person would of sliced it for them or helped, if you read my previous post I explained how I no the feeling of having asking for help when you could do it before and it’s not a nice feeling, your attitude and opinions effect people and the reason the world is the way it is today is because people think it’s right not to be helpful and are rude, people are right to have there opinions free speech and all that but putting someone down in the process there is no need!!

hinely · 01/02/2019 06:36

It's nothing to do with health and safety.

They promote that the pizza ingredients are from Italy and that they are very traditional pizzas. If you order a whole pizza in an Italian restaurant it's unsliced and you cut it up yourself.

They won't give customers pizza cutters because they know they'll get stolen as most people don't have them at home. I just used a knife/fork when I ate my pizza at Wethers.

The sad thing is that they employ so many EU staff and promote how their foods are true Italian and so on yet obsessively campaign for Brexit. We've stopped going there for that reason alone.

hinely · 01/02/2019 06:42

Also, it's not the staff's responsibility to cut your pizza - it's a pub. You collect your cutlery and condiments from the counter and do it yourself. Remember you don't pay a service charge because of this.

Some of their pubs have proper kitchens but some of them in small/old buildings only have rooms where they microwave a limited menu - the Lord Moon on The Mall in London is one.

Raspberry88 · 01/02/2019 07:08

When I make pizza at home, I use scissors to cut it up

Yes, us too...it's by far the easiest way to cut pizza.

shpoot · 01/02/2019 07:27

I always ask for them to slice it. Why are people so shocked at that?

Raspberry88 · 01/02/2019 08:03

Also, it's not the staff's responsibility to cut your pizza - it's a pub.

Look, we've already established this...
They come uncut (except for the childrens ones.)
They send steak knives rather than pizza wheels out for legitimate reasons.
It is completely reasonable to ask them to cut it and they should cut them for you if you ask. OP must have had a rogue waitress.
It's not a 'first world problem' and some posters need an empathy transplant.
Mumsnet thinks that wetherspoons is the devil and that only drunk old men (agism?) go there.
Actually people go to wetherspoons for lots of reasons, it does perfectly good food and is cheap enough that you can have a nice meal out even if you aren't well off.
Posters insisting they they would never go because they're just sooo cultured and would rather go to a 'proper restaurant' are just showing themselves up to be snobs with a lack of understanding of other people's circumstances.

FlipF · 01/02/2019 08:36

Raspberry. I'm guessing you are new to Mumsnet. Your reply is far to sensible.

😅

JamieVardysHavingAParty · 01/02/2019 08:43

Things I have learnt from mumsnet this week: that there is no difference between cutting up a pizza with a knife to cutting up any other type of food. It's a complete mystery why anyone bothered inventing the pizza wheel, apparently.

I'll get rid of my pizza wheel forthwith!

BarbaraofSevillle · 01/02/2019 08:50

That so many people steal pizza cutters from wetherspoons that they have stopped allowing customers access to them.

Also that Wetherspoons sell what looks like quite good pizza, according to photographic evidence available online.

Years ago I got two free pizza cutters with Asda counter pizzas. One has broken, but we are still using the other one regularly.

DGRossetti · 01/02/2019 10:14

Things I have learnt from mumsnet this week: that there is no difference between cutting up a pizza with a knife to cutting up any other type of food. It's a complete mystery why anyone bothered inventing the pizza wheel, apparently.

I'm fascinated that at 362 posts, no one has mentioned using a Mezzaluna which is what we use on the occasions I cook pizza at home ....

delboysskinsandblister · 01/02/2019 13:00

why not just tear it?

JamieVardysHavingAParty · 01/02/2019 13:01

I'm fascinated that at 362 posts, no one has mentioned using a Mezzaluna which is what we use on the occasions I cook pizza at home ....

Is this something I'll find in a large department store, or will I have to order it online?

DGRossetti · 01/02/2019 13:13

Is this something I'll find in a large department store, or will I have to order it online?

Well

www.amazon.co.uk/KitchenCraft-Hollywood-Rocking-Pizza-Cutter/dp/B01MT1O6TV/ref=sr_1_3?tag=mumsnetforum-21

is cheap, but

www.amazon.co.uk/KitchenCraft-Flavours-Wooden-Mezzaluna-Cutter/dp/B00429SK9S/ref=sr_1_1?tag=mumsnetforum-21

comes with a nifty-looking combined board and peal.

Original poster
Calvinsmam · 01/02/2019 13:17

I use scissors at home.

OP posts:
kezibear · 01/02/2019 14:52

I was in wetherspoons last night. My pizza came whole. My daughter's off the kids menu came sliced.

GahWhatever · 01/02/2019 15:19

@Kezibear, weren't you even slightly tempted to ask them to slice it for you just to see what they'd say?

delboysskinsandblister · 01/02/2019 16:15

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/mum-says-jd-wetherspoon-wouldnt-15766150

Shall we start a petition in change.org?

Original poster
Calvinsmam · 01/02/2019 16:20

Oh ffs what a ridiculous article.

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delboysskinsandblister · 01/02/2019 16:26

Oh bless your heart. You're famous! In other news we have more snow coming..

May your pizza always be sliced. I salute you. Even though I don't like pizza [slice]

delboysskinsandblister · 01/02/2019 16:26

I mean smile not slice! Smile ffs.

Original poster
Calvinsmam · 01/02/2019 16:27

Freudian slip!

OP posts:
daftgeranium · 01/02/2019 16:34

Boycott Wetherspoons. Do not support that man, he is helping to tear the country apart for his own gain

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