To think that sainsburys restuarant should substitute salad and garlic bread with chips if asked?

[PavlovtheForgetfulCat]

An example:

Beef Lasagne - choice of salad or chips (a few more items with salad or chips).
Spinach Cannelloni - salad and garlic bread.

I am not able to eat garlic, or rather, anything that smells of garlic as it makes me vomit (hyperemesis)

Sometimes, when I go to the restuarant for a bite to eat after shopping, I am allowed to order the cannelloni and substitute the salad and garlic bread, with just chips. So, not salad, no garlic bread, but chips.

The last time i went - this was refused. Head office rules. I was able to order chips, but would have to pay an additional £1 or however much the chips cost. Even though the salad would go untouched, and therefore be thrown out.

I called them today before going again to ask if I will be refused again, before embarrassing myself and them by asking and being refused. I was told that yes, they will substitute as I am pregnant.

AIBU to think that they should just substitute regardless of me being pregnant or not? Seeing as I am paying for it, and the options to choice one or the other are available on other very similar meal options?

I went to a morrison's cafe once. Now that was baaaaaaad.

luckily, I only needed something wet and warm quickly after visiting my very sick mother and had just had some bad news, it was the nearest place in the middle of nowhere, but even i was not so wrapped up in my own little world to not notice its awfulness .

You would not beleive would you that DH and I are usually pretty well adjusted foodies would you?

In that case, I would buy a packet of bread rolls and give them a couple with a banana or something. Preferably while shopping to avoid crumbs. Mine have partaken of many a three course meal while on dreary supermarket sweep.

We have minimised the need for this at all though, but internet shopping. it reduces the risk of such situations occuring again

we went to jamie oliver's fifteen restaurant in newquay for breakfast last week. dd boaks at fried egg yolks but likes the whites, or she loves scrambled eggs. so we ordered 2 veggies fry ups for us, and a kid's fry up for her (she's 3). i asked if the egg could be scrambled rather than fried. waitress said no, no variation on the egg. i was thinking gosh couldn't they just whisk it up? i could do it myself even.. so i had to cut the yolk out and eat it myself while dd ate the whites.

funniest thing though was dd saying in a big loud voice 'oh! where is everything?!' when her plate arrived. ie where were the beans, the hash browns, the pile of toast, the bacon etc etc. she got a fat sausage, and a fried egg, artifully placed on a single teeny slice of ciabatta!! was delicious though

y y moony.

God I keep agreeing with you today...

Off to find a thread you're not on. I am not a stalker.

ruddynorah - so its not just the slum cafes that follow this rule

Ah Mel, you know I speaka da good sense.

You do Moony!

I have agreed with you tons over the years...sad but true...

Tis essentially the spirit of YBF that binds us in sisterly understanding y'see.

I am smelling some corn here

Oh absolutely.

YBF rocks

I think bf has something to do with it too. I am sure I have agreed with you loads on that.