Little Chef

I love their olympic breakfasts but hate the style of their operations and decor

Heston tried but couldn't do "blue sky thinking"

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Well i for one, will be very sad if Little Chef is allowed to be "swallowed up" by Costa or similar.

We all like a bit of nostalgia, especially in times of austerity, and I was brought up on visits to Little Chef when I was a kid, and also with my own kids whenever we trundled up and down the A1 or wherever.

It seems that the use of a knife and fork is deemed out of date doesn't it?

I recently found a Wimpy in Sudbury, and I thought it was great being served up a burger and chips with a knife and fork, not to mention the round tomato shaped ketchup dispenser.

Progress isn't always a good thing, in fact the older I get, the more i wonder what progress is really for

I agree, I miss the days of Wolverhampton Truck Stop £6 for your dinner and a shower.

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Well i for one, will be very sad if Little Chef is allowed to be "swallowed up" by Costa or similar.

We all like a bit of nostalgia, especially in times of austerity, and I was brought up on visits to Little Chef when I was a kid, and also with my own kids whenever we trundled up and down the A1 or wherever.

It seems that the use of a knife and fork is deemed out of date doesn't it?

I recently found a Wimpy in Sudbury, and I thought it was great being served up a burger and chips with a knife and fork, not to mention the round tomato shaped ketchup dispenser.

Progress isn't always a good thing, in fact the older I get, the more i wonder what progress is really for

What do you mean by very sad, will you have the grey cloud hanging over you, unable to concentrate, wont be abl to sleep, can you elaborate a bit R Speed?

Very sad?

Well I find it sad when anything good disappears, and ok we may have moved on but Little Chef in its day was brilliant. Motorways had plastic food on a self service basis owned by the aptly named Rank, while the A roads had little chef, where you sat down and used cutlery (for those of a certain age "cutlery" was a name for impliments used to get food from a plate to your mouth) So progress is a self service maceedoos, using horsemeat and chips that have such a long list of ingredients i'm surprised there's any room for potatoes, and whose rubbish now clutters all our highways and byways (see previous thread by RLT)

Life, as they say, is a tall cool glass of F**K YOU... lol

With refills on the house

3 little chefs local'ish to me shut down years ago, last time I went in one was 1995 near Scarborough and it was very good.

When chips were chips not french fries

What Scarborough or the Little Chef?:0)

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What Scarborough or the Little Chef?:0)

Don't be funny

I like Scarborough with or without a Little Chef

So did jimmy

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So did jimmy

You want me to say Jimmy Who

Clue Sir

You've just spoilt it

Sorry

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You've just spoilt it

You haven't spoilt it, I aint got a clue what your on about, I have lived a sheltered life.

Oh come on...Who was buried in Scarborough... Ex DJ, Marathon Runner, lived with his Mother, smoked cigars!

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Oh come on...Who was buried in Scarborough... Ex DJ, Marathon Runner, lived with his Mother, smoked cigars!

I had know idea, he didn't just smoke cigars

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Oh come on...Who was buried in Scarborough... Ex DJ, Marathon Runner, lived with his Mother, smoked cigars!

And a bevan boy

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I like Scarborough with or without a Little Chef

You live in Essex so have no taste :-)

I like using Little Chef because it's one of the very few eateries that ask for your money only after you've eaten. I like the feeling of being trusted not to do a runner. That type of establishment is rare these days.

I live in Suffolk, so up yer bum

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I like using Little Chef because it's one of the very few eateries that ask for your money only after you've eaten. I like the feeling of being trusted not to do a runner. That type of establishment is rare these days.

What's up with doing a runner?

A lot of the little chefs r now Indians now up in our neck of the woods

Wood & Sons said:

What's up with doing a runner?

Because it's naughty. And anyone caught doing one deserves to be dragged back inside by their ear, thrown over the waitress's knee, and spanked ... very hard.

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So did jimmy

Come on now, lets not be dissing Leeds' favourite son, I remember how he used to look after all the young girl cadets at Leeds Sea Cadet functions in the 70's... The kind soul!

Has anyone tried their deep pan new york cheesecake with blueberry compote?

Walsh Logistics said:

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Has anyone tried their deep pan new york cheesecake with blueberry compote?

Have you mr g sounds nice

Awww its absolutely delicious..but hard going after an olympic breakfast and a cup of tea

You fat b'stad