Coffee in baby chino

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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 😵‍💫

@Lamelie hmm yeah this whole thread is suffering from a bit of a GSOH failure really. Oh well!

The paying customers also being the parents...

I've had this happen more than once, and I've done my time as a barista in several places when I was younger and came across many colleagues who had no idea what a babycino meant despite it explicitly being on our menu.

This is why I always specifically order "an espresso cup of warm steamed whole milk, with no coffee or anything else added". It sometimes gets me bemused looks but I'd rather that than deal with a caffeinated toddler...

If you work in a coffee shop you should know what a babyccino is, FGS.

And this coffee shop was in a soft play place! It must have been the barista's first day.

Asking for a cup of steamed milk would mean that you'd get a drink that was too heavy and too much for a preschooler to drink (plus you would be charged) . The babycinno are served in cups small enough that a preschooler can pick it up easily.

Very bad form to make them the same temp as an adult hot drink though.

Totally agree. Whenever someone uses the term yummy mummy in this way, I know I will probably disagree with whatever comes next

It's on the menu usually...

Not my experience at all. Anywhere that offers a babycino as a menu item will usually recognise that I want a babycino and charge the relevant price. Also asking for an espresso cup gets you the right size anyway.

And if they don't have any clue what a babycino is/don't realise that's what I'm after, then I've never been charged more than 50p anyway. When I've been working as a barista, I'd occasionally get requests for full size cups of warm milk from older customers (no idea why older customers specifically but that seemed to be the pattern), and even for a full size cup then we'd only charge 50p for something like that 🤷‍♀️

You look really grand up there on your high horse!

They were around when my DCs were young & youngest is 19 now. Not as ubiquitous as today but they existed.

I was asked for one of these when I was a teenage waitress. I didn't know what they were talking about so I asked a colleague! Sounds like more training is the answer.

If the server did not know what it was, surely they should ask?

I cannot believe how wild this comments are. Imagine getting this uppity about foamy milk for toddlers.....

I live in an extremely lower income/working class area and not only are there babychinos sold everywhere including greasy spoons, but puppychinos too!

Guess what, I've got TWINS. you're subsidising BOTH my kids AT ONCE. Let me know where your local is, well come and eat some cake samples too

This.

I can't think of anything more cringy than sitting my 2 year old down in a snobby coffee shop giving her a babychino taking a picture of her on social media with all the ludicrous hashtags of #babychino #mummyanddaughtertime

Fuck offfffff no one cares. Just order your kid a hot chocolate and be done with it.

Same batch of people who do the 'Christmas corners' in their gaffs.

And for anyone calling me a fun sponge. I think your child would probably prefer a chocolate drink and a chat than a cup of luke warm slightly thicker milk and a camera shoved in their face pretending to enjoy said shit milk for Instagram.

Yes someone's pissed on my Alpen this morning 😂

DH and u are queening class, he'd order a babyccino because, that's their name. Even being working class, he's able to use the name of things to order them

Yeah, so wanky, imagine wanting to make Christmas fun for the kids! So bourgeois!

I can't think of anything more cringy than sitting my 2 year old down in a snobby coffee shop giving her a babychino taking a picture of her on social media with all the ludicrous hashtags of #babychino #mummyanddaughtertime
I've ordered probably hundreds of babyccinos over the years. But I've never had an Instagram account or used a hashing in my life. Not sure where that puts me on your arbitrary scale of wank.

Hundreds???

Pretty high up there.

Costa does choc babyccinos for 60p, basically a milky hot choc. I think it’s well
worth it and the kids feel all fancy when they sip their little cups!

Queening class 😂😂
The new working class

Maybe getting on for that. 2 kids, at least bi-weekly coffee shops/parks/museums/other places that sell drinks a week for a few years. Doubt it's that unusual really. I go out for coffee a lot, when they were pre-schoolers they were usually with me

I'm more of a browser than a poster but can't resist responding - this thread is bonkers 😅

It's a drink on a menu, people - and I think it's a lovely way to make kids feel more included, and to keep them occupied for a couple of minutes while the mums (and dads, and grandparents, and carers!!) enjoy their coffee.

The name really isn't that wanky either. 'Cino' literally just means small in Italian...what's the big deal?

I think a few people need to step away from their screens, get some fresh air, and get a bit of perspective on what is/isn't important (maybe grab yourself a coffee while you're at it) 👌

Clearly you need to move to weetabix.

Plenty of people manage to do nice things with their kids without Instagram. If the only pictures you see of your friends kids is hashtag insta photos, get new friends, don't project onto perfectly normal activities because you think you're better for ordering hot choc for goodness sake. Picky you making it into a competition

I have a coffee from a coffee shop every single day, and would continue doing so with a baby/toddler. My local coffee shop is full of parents who frequent daily with their littlies.

What’s this nonsense about only buying coffee for Instagram? No true ‘yummy mummy’ would do that. Posting a photo of your coffee is so passé. Black Mirror satirised it 7 years ago - that’s how passé it is!