Little Chef, do you go now?

[VTECMatt]

Still can not believe Popham is in the GFG, it isn't that good.

[Podie]

markoc said:

jamiebae said:

Went to one between the M25 and Southend last week

On the A127? Thats my "local" - I've been twice and I'd agree it isn't up to standard. I only ever go to a Little Thief for an Olympic Breakfast. The one at Fontwell on the way to Goodwood is particularly good in this respect.

Worst I've had is on the M1, Toddington I think. Shocking.

To clarify, you know that's not one of the three Heston'd ones, right..?

[Dr_Rick]

Dr.Doofenshmirtz said:

Harvester - quality of food has started to slip.

Went to a Harvester near Glasgow some time last year and quality didn't really come into it.

We walked in and they stated that they hadn't had a full food delivery. No bread of any sort, some of hte meat was missing and even the salad cart was a little thin on the ground. We thought we'd adapt and go with whatever complete meal they could develop. Only that the food that did turn up was incomplete and they didn't apologise or give us a discount. They'd have done better to close up and save themselves the grief.

Bad day at the office for them; every other time it has been acceptable (not great, but its a mass-produced family restaurant).

[F i F]

Starting to go slightly OT with the Harvester things and so on, but it does seem as if the modern restaurant chains are totally screwed when their deliveries fail. It's as if when they don't have the presumably pre-formatted ingredients to prepare something which looks like the picture then they don't know what to do.

Some while back we stayed in a Travel Inn (Beckton as it happens) which at that time was attached to a pub with whatever chain has the Charlie Chalks kids place.

They'd had a delivery failure and were just completely screwed on food, both normal and breakfast menus. Yet there was/is an absolutely huge Asda on the other side of the road. What we couldn't understand is why they couldn't head across the road, take a couple or three trollies and set themselves up with a kit of parts to make various basic meals.

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How hard can it be?
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[anonymous-user]

There's only one Chef...

[bazking69]

Been once years ago and vowed to never go again. It was dire and I don't buy into using a famous noncey chef to market a dead horse, especially when said programme showed us the utter mong in charge of said company to further compound my fears...

Crap food. Poor service with little smile. Little Thief sums it up perfectly. I'd rather pay £3.50 for a sandwich in the petrol station, and anyone who knows me will know that I'd rather starve than pay £3.50 for a petrol station sandwich...

[beano500]

See, back in the '80s, the Little Chuff used to be THE place to go for a nice warming cup of coffee, a toasted teacake or three and good chat on decent bike rides.


In fact we used to vie to get the latest LC map first so we could all go: "Right let's meet up at #409 and we'll make our way, covering 200 miles to #714" and such like.

You knew it wasn't "great" - but the fact that you got consistently good welcome and service made it a realistic and semi-pleasurable experience, come-rain, come-sky-abso-bloody-lutely-smashing-it-daon, come shine.

It's difficult to square up that (distant) memory with the absolute morbid fear of having to go anywhere near one today!