{"id":311018,"date":"2025-08-02T04:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311018\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T04:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T04:27:13","slug":"birmingham-cafe-slams-disrespectful-diner-who-criticised-meal-and-said-its-not-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311018\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham cafe slams &#8216;disrespectful&#8217; diner who criticised meal and said &#8216;it&#8217;s not hard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guest described their visit as &#8216;the worst cafe I&#8217;ve ever been to&#8217;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_close-up-of-a-plate-of-english-breakfast.jpg\" alt=\"A Birmingham cafe responded to a 'disrespectful' customer online\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>A Birmingham cafe responded to a &#8216;disrespectful&#8217; customer online(Image: Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A Birmingham cafe owner has slammed a &#8216;disrespectful&#8217; customer who chose to leave rude comments online instead of give in-person feedback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The visitor questioned positive reviews and said their visit was &#8216;the worst cafe I&#8217;ve ever been to&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">However, the breakfast favourite hit out at the controversial guest and said &#8216;you could have had your money back&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Read More:<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/birmingham-cafe-owner-says-i-32124386\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> <\/a><\/strong><a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink-news\/birmingham-cafe-owner-says-i-32124386\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Birmingham cafe owner says &#8216;I won&#8217;t let you ruin my day&#8217; after guest&#8217;s remark<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Located on Greenholm Road in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sutton-coldfield\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Sutton Coldfield<\/a>, Marlboro Cafe has a 4.7 score out of five stars on Google Reviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One customer said: &#8220;I love that cafe, been going there for years. Food is great, the staff are superb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_marlboro-cafeJPG.jpg\" alt=\"Marlboro Cafe, Sutton Coldfield \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Marlboro Cafe, Sutton Coldfield (Image: Google Street View)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A different guest added: &#8220;Fantastic cafe, food always lovely and hot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Staff really friendly, great atmosphere. A real gem with consistently great quality food, rare to find these days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">And another reviewer posted: &#8220;Food was 10\/10, service was impeccable. Tasted as good as it looked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Despite the positive feedback, one customer left a controversial review and criticised the taste of various items.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They also questioned the abundance of positive reviews, and the people who left them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The reviewer wrote an unkind suggestion about the customers that BirminghamLive has chosen not to publish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">In part, the review read: &#8220;The worst cafe I\u2019ve ever been to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Whoever is leaving good reviews on here&#8230; Sausage absolutely disgusting, bacon no taste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Do not recommend to anyone, it\u2019s not hard to make a good breakfast. Very poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Marlboro Cafe elegantly responded: &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry you didn&#8217;t enjoy your visit to my cafe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;If you had said something at the time, you could have had your money back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;I always appreciate good and bad reviews about the cafe so thank you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;What I don&#8217;t like is when a &#8216;customer&#8217; is disrespectful to my real lovely customers who have spent time reviewing giving their honest opinions and don&#8217;t deserve to be treated with the disrespect you have given them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Thank you for your review.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The guest described their visit as &#8216;the worst cafe I&#8217;ve ever been to&#8217;A Birmingham cafe responded to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10314,748,393,4884,7829,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-311018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-restaurants","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-sutton-coldfield","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114957283833611160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}