"Hot" drinks???

[happyhippy]

Hi all,
I'm going to have abit of a whinge about "Hot"drinks.Ok I can make a coffee,tea,hot choc etc in my own home and its too hot to drink straight away.I usually have to first take small sips.So why should it be any different when we go to a cafe,restaurant and so on?I am fed up of ordering a "hot"drink when we are out,and being handed a luke warm one!I've lost count how many times this has happened and its come to the point now where OH will say to me when we're out "Shall we have a coffee somewhere"and I now say "No thanks I'd rather have a hot one at home"!!!! Just after Xmas we were shopping and went into a large well known dept store's cafe.I asked for a large hot choc,and got handed half a cup,and luke warm.I asked the lady to re make it please,this time hot,and up to the brim thanks and was given a dirty look!So much for customer service hey?Seems its gone out the window!!What is it>Lack of training to make a hot drink?Or their machinery they use?

[baldybloke]

Peobably something to do with Health and Safety. If you or the serving staff scolded yourself on a hot drink, there might be a case to sue for compensation.

[oldjerry]

Gutted.....thought someone had a supply of knocked off Talisker.......

[Graye]

I must admit that since we moved back to the UK from living abroad I've become more of a copmplainer in restaurants. As a nation we are far too accepting of bad service and I realised that others aren't as tolerant. Not hot enough? Send it back! I do it all the time (without being completely silly about it though). For instance in We**ersp**ns today I sent back my veggie breakfast. The tomato, beans and mushrooms were tepid whereas the eggs and veggie sausage were red hot. Obviously half the breakfast was sitting around waiting for the rest to be cooked. I know it probably only had a quick trip through the microwave but at least it was all the same temperature when it re-appeared!

[oldjerry]

OK, serious now.By all means moan if your latte's a bit dodgy,but how about taking on the big boys.

My local Scumpo's stocks French apples all through every summer(I live on the border of Hereford /Worcs/Shropshire).They also have French beans from Egypt when the Greengrocer in Tenbury has them from Ombersley.I made a point of demanding an explaination of this from the vegetable manager(!) when ever I went into said store.

I'm currently banned....Happy days!!...

[Paul_C]

try the tea at any train station. i drunk sea water which was more tea like and warmer.

[happyhippy]

Sorry old jerry to disappoint you!lol No really is it too much to ask for a hot drink?????I truly give up on that score.The same department store,we picked up chunky looking toasties which you had to hand to the assistant who then took them out back and told us to find a seat and he would bring them over to us.We must of been sat there waiting for 30 minutes!!!!He eventually showed up,and handed us normal thin sliced white bread toasties,that looked nothing like the ones we had chosen.Me;These are'nt the ones we chose"Ass:(sorry Assist lol):No Sorry we burnt the ones you chose so had to make fresh ones" Don;t these people have inductions and on going training????From now on I am NOT buying anymore hot,sorry luke warm drinks and I'm also about to give up the ghost on eating out as well!

[baldybloke]

I rarely indulge in hot drinks when out, preferring to wait until I get home. If I walk to town to do the shopping, I reward myself with a pint of Guinness in my local on the way back.

[Graye]

The problem must be Aberystywth W'spoons then Susue Gee! That's where my lukewarm breakfast was served. We probably see each other in there all the time and have no idea...

[Chants Cottage]

This has happened to me a lot too and more than once in supposedly good quality independent coffee type shops. And I've sent drinks back and got equally tepid ones in exchange. It's maybe not a big deal in one sense, but it is just another example of the really rubbish catering food culture we are expected to, and for the large part, do accept as the norm. And if you complain or suggest that something could be done differently you're almost bound to get a frosty reception. Gah.

My local Scumpo's stocks French apples all through every summer(I live on the border of Hereford /Worcs/Shropshire).They also have French beans from Egypt when the Greengrocer in Tenbury has them from Ombersley.I made a point of demanding an explaination of this from the vegetable manager(!) when ever I went into said store.

Slightly off-off topic again, but this reminds me of when I went into a branch of M*rr*s*ns to find a single banana with a sticker on it, shrink wrapped in a polystyrene tray with another two stickers on the outside. I asked to see the manager for an explanation and was fobbed off with some guff about labels poisoning the bananas, which didn't apparently apply to the one, er, stuck on the banana and treated like a complete fruitcake to boot. Gah.

[Millymollymandy]

At least you get giant lukewarm coffee in the UK. In France you get three sips of lukewarm coffee and it costs the same as your buckets.