According to BBC news Little Chef are to close 67 of their 161 restaurants,surely an opportunity to revert some of them back into transport cafe’s?
KW:
According to BBC news Little Chef are to close 67 of their 161 restaurants,surely an opportunity to revert some of them back into transport cafe’s?
… or maybe a warning there’s no profit to be made in roadside catering as long as fuel stations have supermarket outlets attached!
I remember the Happy Eater as a kid. The excitement of a family holiday to Devon would be filled with anticipation of whether it would Happy Eater or Little Chef for breakfast!
I hope they don’t close the Chicklade branch!
How about Roses cafe at Beckingham, still has the lamp shades from when it was a Little Chef and that was Forty years ago, I think it still has the same seats to 
Its no wonder with prices they charge 
KW:
surely an opportunity to revert some of them back into transport cafe’s?
Who is going to use them though? When food is mentioned here, everyone stocks up at Aldi for the week ahead and bring their own fruit or cooks in the cab ?
I’ve not seen a little chef with a big enough space to park a truck recently !
The trouble was with Little Chefs that it took them at least an hour to cook anything 
although this one has improved since Little Chef closed it
thenorthgateinn.com/welcome.html
Denis F:
I’ve not seen a little chef with a big enough space to park a truck recently !The trouble was with Little Chefs that it took them at least an hour to cook anything
although this one has improved since Little Chef closed it
thenorthgateinn.com/welcome.html
I have been there, you are correct Denis, very nice in there!
nedflanders:
Its no wonder with prices they charge
I found them half reasonable compared to most.
I sure hope the one’s I regulary use don’t close. Decent grub in an emergency and always happy to bung some of my own in the oven or fill a flask.
Besides, those Polish girls are so sweet, even get free parking 
my daughter had her redundancey notice the week after christmas, a nice new year present for her, just don’t know which sites they are closing, now i have to ask the question? if they make her redundant and then don’t close the site and someone from another site that is closing comes in and takes over her postion is the company breaking the law? views would be appricated please so i can advise her
Denis F:
The trouble was with Little Chefs that it took them at least an hour to cook anything
thenorthgateinn.com/welcome.html
That’s 'cos they couldn’t quite reach the knobs on the cooker. 
KW:
According to BBC news Little Chef are to close 67 of their 161 restaurants,surely an opportunity to revert some of them back into transport cafe’s?
As i have posted on other thread if you can cast your mind back a majority of little chefs were built on sites of transport cafes they bought and demolished,some of them good ones.
regards dave.
Mike-C:
KW:
surely an opportunity to revert some of them back into transport cafe’s?Who is going to use them though? When food is mentioned here, everyone stocks up at Aldi for the week ahead and bring their own fruit or cooks in the cab ?
They would only work if food was cheap and freshly made, they charge £8 or more for a breakfast. If you can do it for £3-£4 then you’d probably be able to get people in the door
Denis F:
I’ve not seen a little chef with a big enough space to park a truck recently !
What Denis said. I’m convinced they were deliberately designed to deter lorry drivers from parking in there, in fact many years ago I went on one whilst on a 7.5 job and was asked rather abruptly by the manager to move the lorry out of the car park as “this is not a transport cafe”. 
I did… never been in one since.
More and more of us are eating healthily these days. There just usn’t the market for transport cafes
it would be alright if some of them changed into your average sandwich shop, good quality fresh cooked food and at a good fair price, stop get a sarnie then off again… or greggs took them over. 
nedflanders:
Its no wonder with prices they charge
And the ■■■■■ they used to serve, might be better nowadays but 
puntabrava:
nedflanders:
Its no wonder with prices they chargeAnd the [zb] they used to serve, might be better nowadays but
Only 1 I’ve ever used is at Sutton Scotney services (with room to park a wagon at certain times - for FREE - hence the certain times) and the food was nice, expensive but nice.
The one at Kilmarnock was being boarded up tonight at tea time.
didnt even know there were that many left