Officially we open at 11 and close at 5. The sign on the top of the chalkboard informs people that we serve lunch from 12 noon - 2.30. We often go beyond those hours (both ways - you'd be surprised how many people are dying for a jacket potato at 11.30). They're sort of guidelines, not rules. I have never yet refused lunch to a latecomer, even when the kitchen has packed away all the various elements which go into the ploughmans. And cleaned. And mopped.
Today was the latest request yet. An egg mayo sandwich on granary bread at 4.40.
And from 4-5 we did more cappuccinos and lattes than we'd done in the morning.
So a sort of back-to-front day.
A yad, if you will.
One man who came in said "I've been coming here for years and you've changed it" (a fairly common occurrence), "I suppose it was health and safety made you do it?". I admit to being a little perplexed. I wondered where it was that "health and safety" forced places to put up pretty floral bunting and match the tablebloths to it. A harsh regime indeed.
it's health and safety GONE MAD, with regulation EU bunting.
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