Charged for an empty plate?!

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I recently went to a greene king pub for a carvery. After plating up my dinner, I asked for a plate for my 10 month old, not to take any extra food but to take it off my plate to give to him. They wanted to charge me for it! Never had this issue before, AIBU?

Your punctuation is deranged.

Common sense would be to feed the baby from your own plate and not ask for a plate at a place that charges by the plate.
Can’t help thinking the OP is being snobbish and doesn’t want to appear to being cheeky/cheapskate in not wanting to just feed from their plate.
But if you want a separate plate you either bring your own baby bowl or pay for one.

Haha! Is that the best you got?!
Heres some more for you-/:;()$&@“‘.,?!’!!!

It’s exactly the opposite! A share-size starter or dessert is priced higher than a single serving because it’s intended for 2 people. You wanted to pay for 1 person but have food for two. It doesn’t matter that the second person only eats a few mouthfuls, where do you draw the line? Should you be able to put extra food at no additional cost onto your plate for a 2-year-old? A 5-year-old? A 10-year-old? It’s like asking for an extra scoop of ice cream on your dessert to give to someone else but not paying for it. If we all did that, what then?

You weren’t charged for an “empty plate”. You were charged for the food your child ate.

She did! Read the post! 🙄

I would agree except how many mouthfuls of food are wasted at these places? greedy fat bastards loading up steaming piles of food and eating three quarters of it; big thumbs up! mother wanting to give infant half a roast potato, not a chance.

I can see their point, if it's a place that charges by the person. But did they retreat?

Was the deal priced by plate? In which case not unreasonable. Why were you unable to feed your child from your plate, if they weren't going to eat that much?
However, I have noticed that quite a few places are niw reintroducing a over charge or offering things like bread, butter etc. as a separate coyrse, when once they were part of the meal.

This thread is amazing! It’s a ten month old baby with a plate! People are acting like OP has asked for free plates for all her friends/family/neighbours!

I can't see where you've said how much it was, but it kind of is relevant.

Charging for a full child's portion is a bit off, but I don't see anything wrong with a nominal £1/2 to cover the food, an extra plate to wash, risk of breakages and the fact that some people with babies will take a lot of food for them, let them play with it and leave it smeared all over the table, chair and floor.

Carveries and other buffets work on an 'average' person. Some people eat less but others eat more and someone feeding a baby increases the average food taken a little and won't be buying them a drink like they would for an older child, so adds to the venues costs so needs to be charged for, especially with the pressures faced by this sort of businesses due to increase in NMW, utilities, food and interest rate on finance, which is how restaurant chains are paid for. All on an offering that costs below average for eating out.

A 10 month old? The restaurant is being very petty and mean.

To judge whether this is fair or not, I need to know exactly how much they wanted to charge you for the plate.

If they wanted to charge you up to about £4 then you are being unreasonable. I think a nominal fee for the food and washing up is fine.

If they wanted to charge you for a full plate, then you are not being unreasonable, but I guess if it’s policy, there is not much you can do except go elsewhere.

Oh come on a 10 month old isnt going to eat more than a potato and a couple of peas.

This thread is batshit 😂

Yanbu, op.

A separate plate needs washing, serving etc. I don't see anything wrong for a small fee. Usually kids eat free under some age in certain places or have a kids menu. I wouldn't bother for a small fee. No because I'm a CF, because probably they have been dealing with many CF in the past.
It is not personal, OP, is the consequences we pay for those who constantly take the piss.

I'd agree IF it was an item off the menu, but it's not. She took extra food from the carvery for her baby. Just because it's piled on one plate, how many children do you think it's reasonable to feed from it??

Exactly!!

This thread is bonkers. No wonder there are so many enormously fat toddlers and young children around if people are filling them with adult sized roasts all over the place.

Next time, OP, take a little plastic plate or bowl from home and just use that for the baby.

Most carveries (Toby / Stonehouse) allow you to feed your baby from your plate, for free, or charge £1ish for a bowl with a Yorkshire that you then add veg from the buffet.

Yes, but the food is supposed to be for YOU, not your baby, toddler, child. Teen. DH, mate... YOU. It's no different to taking enough foid to also feed your DH. But only paying for YOU.

you now have a child, you need to get your head around paying for them when you eat out.

Because you have paid for that food , no matter who eats it. It's different at a carvery because you haven't paid for that food in the same way. You have paid for that one person to eat , not extra food for other people. Substitute her DH for her baby & then you might see the difference.

IT WAS A CARVERY. NOT AN ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET. 📣📣📣

How much they were going to charge is totally relevant - if it was £1 or £2 then I think that’s perfectly reasonable to cover cleaning , service and the small bit of extra food

Why don't you Google it yourself, or are you too good for that too? 😆

She won't say how much, so I'm guessing it was a very cheep charge for a baby to eat. It's usually £2.