“So why did the chain dissappear?” – Because they were shit. Tune in to Channel 5 next Tuesday for a 90 minute “documentary” on it.
Sounds more like a teaser for an unsolved murder podcast.
Used to love Little Chefs when I was a kid and trips away with my family.
Anyone remember the lollipop you used to get if you finished your meal as well? Can’t remember what flavour they were, but loved them as well!
BBC news is such clickbait trash these days.
I genuinely don’t ever remember having been in one. Have driven past loads in the past but we never went there even when I was a kid, I’m guessing they are shite?
Vivid memory of being 5 at a birthday party at our local Little Chef and there were ear wigs crawling up the wall near where we were sat and being in total fear they were going to wriggle into my ears and eat my brain
I deleted my BBC app recently due to the amount of clickbait rubbish they promote and the poor editing and spelling in their articles. I think they’ve got work experience 17 year olds writing their copy these days.
I’ve disabled the BBC ‘breaking news’ alerts because most of them are like this now.
The very definition if breaking is clearly lost on their online platforms teams
Heston Blumenthal tried to work his magic on Little Chef, I’m guessing snail porridge served up in a tramp’s shoe wasn’t quite hitting the right demographic.
Services McDonald’s shit that’s what happened
This does annoy me.
Yes – I could just turn off notifications and be done with it.
But at the same time, I actually quite like getting notifications when something significant is happening in the world and would be categorised as actually “breaking news”.
In a perfect world, perhaps the app would have settings for the “level” of notifications you wanted…….
In the real world though, I guess this is all just to drive up engagement with the app – so I suppose it’s extremely unlikely to ever happen.
Fond memories of family road trips as a kid always stopped in one on the way home
There’s a podcast called Toast one of the lastest episodes looks at this. It basically got sold and sold again, lumbered with debt so it put prices up until it was a rip off and people stopped going.
The man who started Little Chef is dead but he was an interesting man, made the first battery powered golf buggy, hotels and other stuff I can’t remember.
they went out of business.
It’s why all services are big pyramids with a bunch of fast food places awkwardly placed inside.
Dunno what the sudden interest is now.
Possibly because the sausages were made of mashed up tennis balls
I know it has its faults but I’m a BBC defender against the cheap jibes and often find the ‘I don’t even use it!!!’ brigade in fact do get more than their moneys worth through iplayer and radio.
HOWEVER, the humongous nosedive their ‘breaking news’ and social media pages have taken over the past couple of years is a disgrace. I’ve disabled all notifications and use foreign media outlets for breaking British news instead. We all know how bad their breaking news notifications are but can be touch on the state of their instagram pages? Complete celebrity nonsense daily: Beyoncé this, Taylor Swift that. I enjoy pop culture but I do not follow the BBC for it. Don’t get me started on the tiktok presenting style by what seems to be fresh graduates reporting stories…
The last time I ordered an Olympic breakfast the cook managed to get a hard yolk and runny white.
Half expecting a 3 part docuseries on the downfall of Little Chef on channel 5 soon
Got a link to the story though?
Sick and tired of bbc breaking “news“
*’idea for a show. Britain’s Best Roadside Restaurant, with Jet from Gladiators and Patrick from Anglia News’ Patrick’s Pantry. Jet and Patrick tour the UK’s favourite A Roads in a Volvo estate, stopping at derelict Little Chef sites. Patrick attempts to recreate an Olympic Breakfast on a small camping stove while Jet does some blood-clot busting exercises for tired and hungry travellers. must include lunges. for Science.’*
*note for Lynn – is Patrick from Patrick’s Pantry dead? consider Ainsley Harriot if yes. DO NOT BE CHARMED INTO OVER-PAYING HIM THERE’S A BUDGET TO CONSIDER’*
Dry food in rather unwelcoming settings, and towards the end expensive.. I wonder why they went bust?
This is the second Little Chef post I’ve seen today. Big Little Chef is watching.
Why do people allow apps to push such pointless things right onto the Lock Screen of their personal devices?
Nothing annoys me more than how the standard for BBC news notification has dropped over recent years
You used to only get a ping if someone died or a politics thing happened. Now it’s this rubbish
It’s like happy eater has been cancelled.
Sorry, are you actually telling me Little Chefs don’t exist anymore? True I haven’t been to one in about 6 years and I knew they were dwindling, but I still imagined there was the odd one out there 😔
Little Chef went under because they thought they were in a position to pick and choose who their customers were. As a trucker, I was once refused service in a Little Chef because “We don’t serve people in working clothes…” Meaning “Working Class” clothes. I was furious and pointed out that the very few other diners might well be wearing “working clothes” only to be told “You know what I mean…”
The place was mostly empty and closed a few years later. They served All-Day Breakfast and Sausage, Beans and Chips etc but imagined they weren’t a greasy spoon and able to demand a Dress Code. Ridiculous.
someone link- it sounds interesting
If they had lasted a bit longer they might’ve been able to take advantage of EV charging times. Whether EV owners would’ve wanted to go there is something else…
& when something is actually serious they take an hour to report it
When Stephen Henry won the world snooker championship he took his family out for a meal at little chef. I heard this once no idea if it’s true
My mum once asked for the omelette to be made without cheese. The server asked the ‘chef’ and came back and said sorry they can’t as it comes pre-prepared and all they do is put it in the microwave.
“You don’t have eggs?”
“No”
Little chef? NO FUCKING CHEF.
No wonder they folded, food was atrocious.
The overuse of breaking news from every news outlet frustrates me. It’s lost all its meaning now
These are just alerts guys. It actually says ‘breaking news’ when it’s considered breaking news.
Probably because there was an 80% chance or higher of getting food poisoning if you ever ate there. Not to mention the drinks were basically melted ice cubes that had been sat there for a few days no matter what they were meant to actually be.
I haven’t thought about Little Chef in ages. Sad that they’ve gone away
I once finish the Olympic breakfast in 3 minutes 25 seconds..
worked in the Lincoln branch and was usually really quiet so had to make our own fun
Olympic breakfasts were during their dying years, their mainstay was always the Early Starter, which was number 11 on the menu. (12 was American style, 14 was Traditional Breakfast)
This sort of rubbish is making me want to turn them off. I always have it on the telly so why do I need it on the app?
Disappointed. I thought there was going to be a deep nuanced discussion about the downfall of a once popular chain, and musings on the meaning of life.
This is why I uninstalled the app
Their nick name was Little Thief, does that give a clue?
One of my core childhood memories is having to stop off at a roadside little chef when I was around 10.
I had had to get off the bus because I was really badly car sick, so I ventured to get a cup of water. The foyer was this little black room with swinging doors either side, leading to the restaurant.
To my horror, as I walked in, the walls shedded into a swarm of 10,000 flies. The black walls were actually white and were just covered in a thick layer of insects. The room, enclosed by the doors, trapped both me and the flies into the room. Followed was the worst minute of my life as I struggled and gagged on the flies trying to fight my way through the doors.
I busted into the dining area, which was empty apart from one worker. They promptly handed me a paper cup of water that had a substantial layer of grease on the surface. I sat in silence for half an hour thinking about the fly room, before leaving through the emergency exit and never returning.
So I think that’s why they disappeared.
So weird – I was literally just talking about Little Chef the other day and childhood memories of stopping there on the way to the seaside!
Perhaps it had something to do with the speed of the waitresses?
Affectionately known as Little Thief in our house.
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“So why did the chain dissappear?” – Because they were shit. Tune in to Channel 5 next Tuesday for a 90 minute “documentary” on it.
Sounds more like a teaser for an unsolved murder podcast.
Used to love Little Chefs when I was a kid and trips away with my family.
Anyone remember the lollipop you used to get if you finished your meal as well? Can’t remember what flavour they were, but loved them as well!
BBC news is such clickbait trash these days.
I genuinely don’t ever remember having been in one. Have driven past loads in the past but we never went there even when I was a kid, I’m guessing they are shite?
Vivid memory of being 5 at a birthday party at our local Little Chef and there were ear wigs crawling up the wall near where we were sat and being in total fear they were going to wriggle into my ears and eat my brain
I deleted my BBC app recently due to the amount of clickbait rubbish they promote and the poor editing and spelling in their articles. I think they’ve got work experience 17 year olds writing their copy these days.
I’ve disabled the BBC ‘breaking news’ alerts because most of them are like this now.
The very definition if breaking is clearly lost on their online platforms teams
Heston Blumenthal tried to work his magic on Little Chef, I’m guessing snail porridge served up in a tramp’s shoe wasn’t quite hitting the right demographic.
Services McDonald’s shit that’s what happened
This does annoy me.
Yes – I could just turn off notifications and be done with it.
But at the same time, I actually quite like getting notifications when something significant is happening in the world and would be categorised as actually “breaking news”.
In a perfect world, perhaps the app would have settings for the “level” of notifications you wanted…….
In the real world though, I guess this is all just to drive up engagement with the app – so I suppose it’s extremely unlikely to ever happen.
Fond memories of family road trips as a kid always stopped in one on the way home
There’s a podcast called Toast one of the lastest episodes looks at this. It basically got sold and sold again, lumbered with debt so it put prices up until it was a rip off and people stopped going.
The man who started Little Chef is dead but he was an interesting man, made the first battery powered golf buggy, hotels and other stuff I can’t remember.
they went out of business.
It’s why all services are big pyramids with a bunch of fast food places awkwardly placed inside.
Dunno what the sudden interest is now.
Possibly because the sausages were made of mashed up tennis balls
I know it has its faults but I’m a BBC defender against the cheap jibes and often find the ‘I don’t even use it!!!’ brigade in fact do get more than their moneys worth through iplayer and radio.
HOWEVER, the humongous nosedive their ‘breaking news’ and social media pages have taken over the past couple of years is a disgrace. I’ve disabled all notifications and use foreign media outlets for breaking British news instead. We all know how bad their breaking news notifications are but can be touch on the state of their instagram pages? Complete celebrity nonsense daily: Beyoncé this, Taylor Swift that. I enjoy pop culture but I do not follow the BBC for it. Don’t get me started on the tiktok presenting style by what seems to be fresh graduates reporting stories…
The last time I ordered an Olympic breakfast the cook managed to get a hard yolk and runny white.
Half expecting a 3 part docuseries on the downfall of Little Chef on channel 5 soon
Got a link to the story though?
Sick and tired of bbc breaking “news“
*’idea for a show. Britain’s Best Roadside Restaurant, with Jet from Gladiators and Patrick from Anglia News’ Patrick’s Pantry. Jet and Patrick tour the UK’s favourite A Roads in a Volvo estate, stopping at derelict Little Chef sites. Patrick attempts to recreate an Olympic Breakfast on a small camping stove while Jet does some blood-clot busting exercises for tired and hungry travellers. must include lunges. for Science.’*
*note for Lynn – is Patrick from Patrick’s Pantry dead? consider Ainsley Harriot if yes. DO NOT BE CHARMED INTO OVER-PAYING HIM THERE’S A BUDGET TO CONSIDER’*
Dry food in rather unwelcoming settings, and towards the end expensive.. I wonder why they went bust?
This is the second Little Chef post I’ve seen today. Big Little Chef is watching.
Why do people allow apps to push such pointless things right onto the Lock Screen of their personal devices?
Nothing annoys me more than how the standard for BBC news notification has dropped over recent years
You used to only get a ping if someone died or a politics thing happened. Now it’s this rubbish
It’s like happy eater has been cancelled.
Sorry, are you actually telling me Little Chefs don’t exist anymore? True I haven’t been to one in about 6 years and I knew they were dwindling, but I still imagined there was the odd one out there 😔
Little Chef went under because they thought they were in a position to pick and choose who their customers were. As a trucker, I was once refused service in a Little Chef because “We don’t serve people in working clothes…” Meaning “Working Class” clothes. I was furious and pointed out that the very few other diners might well be wearing “working clothes” only to be told “You know what I mean…”
The place was mostly empty and closed a few years later. They served All-Day Breakfast and Sausage, Beans and Chips etc but imagined they weren’t a greasy spoon and able to demand a Dress Code. Ridiculous.
someone link- it sounds interesting
If they had lasted a bit longer they might’ve been able to take advantage of EV charging times. Whether EV owners would’ve wanted to go there is something else…
& when something is actually serious they take an hour to report it
When Stephen Henry won the world snooker championship he took his family out for a meal at little chef. I heard this once no idea if it’s true
My mum once asked for the omelette to be made without cheese. The server asked the ‘chef’ and came back and said sorry they can’t as it comes pre-prepared and all they do is put it in the microwave.
“You don’t have eggs?”
“No”
Little chef? NO FUCKING CHEF.
No wonder they folded, food was atrocious.
The overuse of breaking news from every news outlet frustrates me. It’s lost all its meaning now
These are just alerts guys. It actually says ‘breaking news’ when it’s considered breaking news.
Probably because there was an 80% chance or higher of getting food poisoning if you ever ate there. Not to mention the drinks were basically melted ice cubes that had been sat there for a few days no matter what they were meant to actually be.
I haven’t thought about Little Chef in ages. Sad that they’ve gone away
I once finish the Olympic breakfast in 3 minutes 25 seconds..
worked in the Lincoln branch and was usually really quiet so had to make our own fun
Olympic breakfasts were during their dying years, their mainstay was always the Early Starter, which was number 11 on the menu. (12 was American style, 14 was Traditional Breakfast)
This sort of rubbish is making me want to turn them off. I always have it on the telly so why do I need it on the app?
Disappointed. I thought there was going to be a deep nuanced discussion about the downfall of a once popular chain, and musings on the meaning of life.
This is why I uninstalled the app
Their nick name was Little Thief, does that give a clue?
One of my core childhood memories is having to stop off at a roadside little chef when I was around 10.
I had had to get off the bus because I was really badly car sick, so I ventured to get a cup of water. The foyer was this little black room with swinging doors either side, leading to the restaurant.
To my horror, as I walked in, the walls shedded into a swarm of 10,000 flies. The black walls were actually white and were just covered in a thick layer of insects. The room, enclosed by the doors, trapped both me and the flies into the room. Followed was the worst minute of my life as I struggled and gagged on the flies trying to fight my way through the doors.
I busted into the dining area, which was empty apart from one worker. They promptly handed me a paper cup of water that had a substantial layer of grease on the surface. I sat in silence for half an hour thinking about the fly room, before leaving through the emergency exit and never returning.
So I think that’s why they disappeared.
So weird – I was literally just talking about Little Chef the other day and childhood memories of stopping there on the way to the seaside!
Perhaps it had something to do with the speed of the waitresses?
Affectionately known as Little Thief in our house.