To find the obsession with Toby Carvery baffling?

[Kaykay90]

I went on Sunday and won’t be returning. Tiny portion of meat, kids running riot and it smelt like stale farts.

Anyone else struggle to see the appeal?

Haha, thank you, duly noted! Maybe I'd best not go. I'd need a lift and it would take several hours to get there so I'd be already on edge by the time I queued up for my turkey and pork and gammon.

Out of interest are those three meats ok? Tender? I don't like beef but hate anything chewy or fatty. Like most people I guess!

Carveries are much healthier than the ultra processed crap you get in the fast food chains like MacDonalds

My eldest loves it, mainly because they serve Mac and Cheese with it😱. DH likes a roast so he’s OK with it apart from the queuing. He also and thinks it should be served in unlimited portions😂. A roast isn’t my favourite thing to order eating out, because I can do one at home.

My local is trialing unlimited carvery. 3 trips up has been my limit.

You must live in a rough area. I never see this in my local town. (It's 3.5 miles from my little village.) It is a middle class/upper middle class town though, with several villages within 3-5 miles that are middle class/upper middle class/upper class. So unlike you, I never see this weird behaviour. Have you thought about moving somewhere a bit nicer @FarmGirl78 ?

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My local one is excellent. I go there every other month, or so.
No screaming kids, stale (or fresh!) farts, just great food each time.
What i also enjoy, is that i can be done in half an hour. I don’t like all the waiting around in regular restaurants.

I’m rarely hungry enough to have dessert, but I do like their individual apple pies, and a coffee, combo.

That's true, but it's no different any other chain. Beefeater 'chefs' were lovingly referred to as microwave technicians when I worked there. Sometimes you just want to go somewhere the food is consistent, predictable and you know everyone will find something they like on the menu.

I never said I live in any of those places, I just said I've seen it. I don't live somewhere rough. I've lived in various places round the UK and spent the past decade working across a large chunk of country. The middle/upper class place I lived was just vile, so snotty and up themselves. I like working class places the most. But there's a big difference between decent normal working class and rough scuttsville where the screaming sweary families who travel to my nearest Toby live.

Besides, where I live is nice because my relatives all live round here.

I knew it Bab. Tarra a bit 🤣

We had a good one at the bottom of the road from my old house (it's now a Miller and Carter steakhouse-might be a bit revealing to say that in the Midlands but yes it's the one on the big roundabout known locally as starting with a F!) and I liked it, it was nice and their veggie options I had as I'm veggie but for a chain that specialises in meat it was good. We even had a meal there on the day we relocated before we left. As to screaming kids, I never saw many but we never went on weekend daytimes. I think it depends upon the area. Having said that I'm talking about 9 years ago we last went there(we even ate there when visiting twice)so maybe it has changed overall. I'd eat there again though if the veggie options are still there.

I've just discovered Toby carvery and I love it . I've been by myself twice this month . It's healthy fast food, if you choose the vegetables rather than all the roasties and cauliflower cheese