I used to share a house with a girl who worked
here. Mmmm, look at all that delicious(ly described) food.
What they don't mention is that none of it is made on the premises.
It's all prepared in factories, put in vacuum-sealed bags and heated in the microwave, like at Little Chef, but about three times more expensive.
Bon apetit!
( Zuowan, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:28, 15 replies)

If anyone is surprised by this
then I'll be...well...surprised.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:36, closed)

www.b3ta.com/questions/dodgyworkethics/post1271267
( Zuowan, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:37, closed)

I do realise I was probably wildly naive to have imagined it was any different, yes.

( Zuowan, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:37, closed)

They microwave salads and steaks and chips?
Nyom nyom.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:42, closed)

Probably not the salads, I'll grant you that
but from what I heard, yes, the steaks.
Dunno about the chips.
( Zuowan, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:44, closed)

The chips will be fried and the steaks will be cooked to order.
All chain restaurants have stuff made in central kitchens that they heat up. Even small restaurants and pubs will pre-cook a lot of the dishes and heat them up. There's nothing really wrong with doing that.

Unless it's circles of puff pastry pretending to be a pie. That ought to be a crime punishable by a slow and agonising death.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:49, closed)

She said even the omelettes were pre-made.
Looking at the menu now there seems to be a lot of grilled and fried items and not so much 'stuff in sauce' so they may have changed a bit since 2005.
( Zuowan, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 10:53, closed)

I don't think I've been in one since the 1990s but it was mostly steak and chips back then.
Microwaved omelette sounds pretty grim. If you can't make an omelette then you shouldn't be allowed in a kitchen.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:05, closed)

I was a Chef years ago
and it made me cry how many so called Chefs applied for jobs yet couldn't make a basic Béchamel, fillet a fish or basic soups Blah blah.
Most of them had learnt to microwave things in bags.

In life there are cooks and there are Chefs.
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:16, closed)

I always suspected this.
I spent a small fortune in this Cafe once, and got a really poor effort at a salmon steak with some potatoes. I was forced to go because it was someones birthday.
( Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 14:31, closed)

I think ive dined there once...
... and had Chicken in a basket.

It was shit.
(SillyMoo, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 14:50, closed)

Doesn't surprise me
we ate there a few months back.
£8 for a fucking baguette

And it was rubbish
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:51, closed)

Oh yes, and expensive too if I recall
(SillyMoo, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 21:44, closed)

What is "Assiette de Porc"? Pig's arse?

( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 17:09, closed)

Je pense que,
c'est porc sur une asiette?
But my French is lacking so I may be wrong.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 18:14, closed)