Coffee in baby chino

[nousername2]

Long story short but I ordered a baby chino at a soft play place and before I gave it to her I tried abit- which I never usually do but luckily I did as it tasted like coffee! Asked the barista and she said yes there was 2 shots of coffee in there! She didn't seem to know a baby chino was just frothy milk. If I had given my almost 18 month old a double shot of espresso I dread to think what would have happened!

Will be tasting them from now on but just thought I'd put the word out there that babychinos may contain coffee if the person making thinks it's literally a mini cappuccino.

This woman was very young and I've emailed the place to suggest the staff have more training 😵‍💫

Omg that sounds delish!!!! 🤤

Not to anything like the extent women do, no I don't think so. Do you?

😂 nope I'm the haggard mummy in the corner allowing my child a (free) drink of warm milk so I can enjoy my own coffee and we can both escape from the sensory nightmare that is shopping.

I notice your chosen comeback skill is feigned obtuseness.

It's not the ordering of milk or taking of a child to the cafe that pp are addressing.

It's the nuances init.

Again, I imagine if they do, the non-middle class ones just order warm milk.

Nuances.

I work behind a bar and although I do know how to make an Old Fashioned and a Cosmo, I'd have to dig around in my memory because they're not on our cocktail menu don't get me started 🤣 I'd need to make sure we had the ingredients too.

So no, the stuff on the actual menu is 'day one need to know' not drinks that the establishment doesn't even offer.
I've had people ask for different cocktails and I've never made them before because no where I've worked has sold them - I've told them that if we have the ingredients I'll have a bash but as we don't offer it and I've never made it, it might not be quite perfect.

If this place doesn't offer a Babyccino on their menu then there's no reason to train someone in knowing or making it, and the person themselves may have not have heard of one before.

But this is the issue with some customers insisting they order off menu and then being derogatory and slating people because they're not trained in something that the company they work for doesn't regularly sell.

I think you need to get out more. My DH takes DC for a babyccino every weekend and sometimes on the way into nursery.

If you’ve never seen a man order his child a babyccino you must have a very limited experience of the world.

You’re reinforcing some bizarre gender stereotypes where men need to feel manly so can only order ‘warm milk’ rather than asking for the drinks by name. In the real world they just ask for a babyccino. It’s not weird.

“Warm milk” is not on the menu. “Babyccino” is. The person doing the ordering is not the one deserving of scorn just because you don’t like the name of what they’ve ordered.

Do you think men go to a cafe and order “a shot of espresso, with steamed milk” or do they just order a latte?

@ThatFraggle Out of curiousity, how many staff members have you trained for customer facing roles in cafes or bars? Cos you seem to know a heck of a lot about what they absolutely must know.

Would love to see you on day one of a service role, must be amazing to retain every single ounce of information so quickly! You must hit the ground running! Round of applause for you, you clever bugger

Your DH doing it says nothing about the point made. Nobody said they had never seen it, either.

In the real world they ask for a babycino? A few might. In the actual real world, few of us are buying them or drinking them or even know what the fuck they are.

Perhaps your notion of "the real world" is leafy bits of London?

@shammalammadingdong you’re very aggressive.

You are posting on a thread about toddler drinks in a soft play cafe. If you don’t know what a babyccino or have an interest in ordering them then just move along.

Babycino was on the menu when my 20 year old was a baby. If they never took off, the coffee shops would have stopped selling them.

My observation as a frequent coffee shop customer is that a lot of parents will buy a flake or marshmallow when they order a coffee and babycinno so they make money that way.

You're welcome. Not bars, but yes, I've worked in and trained staff in food service, many years ago.

There are some pretty standard, off-menu requests which are easy to anticipate and which one should be prepared for. Like babychinos in a cafe.

And I appreciate that a local, small/country pub possibly wouldn't offer cocktails. I had in mind something like an upmarket hotel bar; not specifically a cocktail bar, but somewhere someone might reasonably order one of the more common cocktails.

I'm really not.

I don't think I will move along, my perspective is as valid as anyone elses. Literally the point of the thread is someone not knowing what a babycino is, so my point couldn't be any more relevant!

Do you make a habit of rudely gatekeeping threads? You might want to look at that. It's weird.

Oh FGS. Some of us like to go for a coffee with our kids. Giving her frothed milk for a few pence is better for my DD than a hot chocolate or any another drink which - would also be pricier. Your world may revolve around Instagram but mine and others’ don’t.

I have never seen a free one but perhaps that comes from living in Surrey.🙄

Babycinos have been around so long that they wouldn't make exciting comment even if someone was an Instagram influencer. 😂
If they keep the preschooler busy so the parent can drink their coffee in peace then that increases the chance of a return visit.

Costa are free

This.

She didn't know, and no harm was done. I mean you would have had a VERY energetic toddler which would have been.... errr... fun, but not the end of the world. I always tste them beofre giving them to the kids as I have had them burning hot before (which is worse than the coffee in my view).

Yes, for the many years I have known of them they have been steamed milk, sometimes with a little chocolate powder on top. Free or 50p, something like that.

Dd1,would have been a bit over one, drank most of my double espresso one morning. I quickly took her to nursery and apologised as I dropped her off! Naptime wuld have still been a couple of hours away!

50p seems good value?

I once had someone make one as a burning hot milk froth one so it’s definitely best to check

And mine was 20 years ago, well before Insta

A babycino, fuck me I’ve heard everything. Ask for milk next time.

I agree it's a daft name whoever thought of it was probably trying to stay "on trend" , same goes for a pupachino.