"You can't have it for free",aibu?

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So I'm at Manchester for the Christmas markets.
Spent £20 on a Greek sharing box to eat for lunch.
I ask for two forks and she tells me they've ran out and to get them from the Brazilian stand opposite.
So off I go and say "can I have two of the plastic forks please as the Greek stand have ran out"

She says "no I'm not allowed as you didn't buy food here,you can't expect them for free"
I said okay il buy a drink
She said no only food
The cheapest thing was £10
So I sad no
Aibu to think she could of gave me a plastic fork
Is this what the worlds came too?
She had a huge and I mean huge tub of cutlery

So we had to eat with our hands which was near impossible as it was coated in sauces etc

YABU and unfair to the Brazilian place.

Sounds like the Greek stall (and maybe others) have been free loading off the Brazilian stall for a while if they have had to make a policy against it.

it’s not just the cost of the forks. The Brazilian stall will have planned for the number of meals they expect to sell. To then have demand for their forks double because the Greek stall are sending all their customers to get them might well mean the Brazilian stall are unable to provide their own customers with forks later in the day.

She didn't say anything about having spent money with them. But even so, profit margins are very tight on food retail, and things like paper cups (all paper, wood, wood pulp items in fact) have increased in cost dramatically. I don't think they were in the wrong. If you have kids, bring a cup for them. That's pretty usual.

Agree with this. You have misdirected your annoyance.

Quite clearly an autocorrect error.

She didn't say she bought it with them, same as the OP didn't buy her food at the Brazilian place.

But she did say there seemed to be a button on the till and they knew the price so was probably something that had happened a lot. So........you can understand why they charge!

Greek place being U

YANBU

Greek place should have warned you there were no forks left. And at the very least provided extra napkins.

Brazilian place were ridiculously petty for not giving you 2 plastic forks when you said you'd purchase a drink. And yes they are a business, but at £10 a plate or £3 a drink I'm pretty sure they were not going to be losing money giving out a few plastic forks.

Rubbish service from both.

She did, she said ‘I had got cup coffee & bottle water.’

If profit margins are tight, they should have charged her the cost, like 10p. £1 is a huge margin for them.

The Manchester Christmas Markets, which is where the OP was, does have a Morrisons within walking distance though.

You are having issue with wrong place. The greek place obviously didn't have an agreement.

It's always "BuT It'S JuSt OnE ThIng". Yeah, but no one is the only one wanting the "just one thing".

If hundred people comes to your front garden and each picks up a daisy, how will that look? It's just one little flower afterall

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I honestly think we are having some heavy numbers of trolling lately because the threads are just ridiculous. Obviously ridiculous

Because the Greek stall didn’t bother saved costs on not buying enough cutlery, and you might have been the 340th person they had sent over to use theirs.

Not their issue to sort, why should they have to give it away for free because a rival didn’t want to spend their money?

It's really weird how a lot of people in this thread don't seem to realise there's a whole swathe of middle ground between giving you a fork for free and making you buy a £10 meal just for the fork.

Yes, it would have been irritating for them if you were the 20th person who'd asked for a fork, but they could have charged you 50p or even £1...

So how many cups should they be expected to give away for free?

Okay, but if they give away/sell all their cutlery to anyone who asks, how are they supposed to give it their customers when they purchase food?!

The other thing is how did OP ask .the fact she thought she should be entitled to it

more than likely pissed the stall holder off so chances are that’s why they wouldn’t even sell it to them

Well OP had two kids with her and bought 2 drinks from them. A third cup for free or 10p would have been the right thing to do.

Because being so tight you won't give someone the steam off your piss makes you an arsehole?

How much is a plastic knife and fork to a caterer who buys them in bulk? 10p?

Mean.

I would have returned the Greek sharing box immediately and asked for a refund. They're taking the piss.

Exactly!

So many mean-spirited people on this thread.

But if a 100 ppl a day ask, that’s £10 down the drain.

I think it’s a point of principle for the Brazilian stall, as they just have realised a £3 drink would more than cover the cutlery cost too.

YABU.
if you needed it I would have offered her 50p for the fork. But she might just be an employee and would get sacked if she’s given away 50forks by the end of the day. People are struggling an pennies really do fucking count.

Why would it be 100 people a day? You're just imagining details we haven't been given.

And if it's the money, because 100 people a day actually do ask, then why not let OP buy the overpriced drink and throw in the cutlery?

Pure joyless meanness.

But it's NEVER just one person. Go and give 5ps to 100 randoms.