Cafes provide hot water to non-paying customers?

[PrincessBandit]

Who else is watching Campbell live regarding the mothers wanting cafes to provide them with hot water for their babies bottles?

I am amazed that people expect businesses to provide free stuff when they're not even a paying customer for other items? How bloody cheeky to go in and expect that a business (which is there to make money) provide you with something for free when you don't even give them any custom.

When my kids were babies I based my routine around them - I did not go out until they'd woken up, had their feed etc etc. Is it common now for young mums to think that their baby should fit around their social life?

I just think the whole thing is a bloody great cheek!!

[DrunkenMistake]

Who else is watching Campbell live regarding the mothers wanting cafes to provide them with hot water for their babies bottles?

I am amazed that people expect businesses to provide free stuff when they're not even a paying customer for other items? How bloody cheeky to go in and expect that a business (which is there to make money) provide you with something for free when you don't even give them any custom.

When my kids were babies I based my routine around them - I did not go out until they'd woken up, had their feed etc etc. Is it common now for young mums to think that their baby should fit around their social life?

I just think the whole thing is a bloody great cheek!!

If people can not be prepared enough to feed their kids or have some kind of plan before hand then they should expect to have to pay, hot water for a 600ml bottle or whatever it is, might not be much, but they have to pay for that power consumption little as it may be, but imagine if 5 people a day done it..

[JimO]

im with the cafe owner, its private property if she wants them to clean out a bottle or hot water she could buy a coffee, or take a thermos with her, stupid fat cow

[Blackshear]

Guess they're running out of shit to whinge about.
The presenters, not the mothers.

[Virago]

I didn't see the item. I find that almost all cafe staff will accommodate customer's needs - provided that it is asked for nicely, and perhaps an offer to pay a token sum is made.

We were travelling with our adult daughter a couple of months ago, who has severe and wide-ranging food allergies. Eating on the road is a nightmare for her. We stopped at a cafe, and after checking the menu and food cabinets, there was nothing she could eat. My wife and I ordered our food, explained the problem to staff, and asked if they could preheat a food item our daughter had with her in their microwave. We offered to pay for their trouble, they refused to take any payment for doing it.

Courtesy and co-operation goes a long way...

[FJRider]

I am amazed that people expect businesses to provide free stuff when they're not even a paying customer for other items? How bloody cheeky to go in and expect that a business (which is there to make money) provide you with something for free when you don't even give them any custom.

Free to paying customers maybe ... but they are special 'cos they have kids ... right ... ???

When my kids were babies I based my routine around them - I did not go out until they'd woken up, had their feed etc etc. Is it common now for young mums to think that their baby should fit around their social life?

Then they grow up ... and you base your WHOLE LIFE around them ...

[JimO]

I didn't see the item. I find that almost all cafe staff will accommodate customer's needs - provided that it is asked for nicely, and perhaps an offer to pay a token sum is made.

We were travelling with our adult daughter a couple of months ago, who has severe and wide-ranging food allergies. Eating on the road is a nightmare for her. We stopped at a cafe, and after checking the menu and food cabinets, there was nothing she could eat. My wife and I ordered our food, explained the problem to staff, and asked if they could preheat a food item our daughter had with her in their microwave. We offered to pay for their trouble, they refused to take any payment for doing it.

Courtesy and co-operation goes a long way...

they wernt customers though, they congregated outside the shops in the mall and wanted to use the cafe without actually buying anything, there used to be a parents room with a microwave in the mall but this was trashed and vandalised so has been removed

[PrincessBandit]

they wernt customers though, they congregated outside the shops in the mall and wanted to use the cafe without actually buying anything, there used to be a parents room with a microwave in the mall but this was trashed and vandalised so has been removed

what floored me was the comment that "the plunket room was too far to walk to with a crying baby". what the hell? As if a cafe wants to be filled up with mums who take their screaming babes in there to scab free hot water?

[Big Dave]

I can fix all of this for you in 5 seconds:

TURN THE TV OFF!

You're welcome.

[PrincessBandit]

I can fix all of this for you in 5 seconds:

TURN THE TV OFF!

You're welcome.

Sorry, cannae do...everyone knows the TV is the best baby sitter...

[Big Dave]

Camp bell live or the Wiggles - hmmm, same IQ demographic!

[Scuba_Steve]

I can fix all of this for you in 5 seconds:

TURN THE TV OFF!

You're welcome.

what do I do now??? how do I decide things without the great propaganda machine telling me what to think??? this is too much pressure...

[Blackshear]

Camp bell live or the Wiggles - hmmm, same IQ demographic!

At least the wiggles know when to breathe.

[Big Dave]

what do I do now??? how do I decide things without the great propaganda machine telling me what to think??? this is too much pressure...

Break free from the shackles and yoke of addiction to the box I say!!! I'd like to answer more fully....but the football is about to start.

[george formby]

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Courtesy and co-operation goes a long way...

Hallelujah.

I own an internet cafe / coffee shop & am constantly appalled at the attitude of some people. Often somebody will walk straight into the shop, past me, ignore my hello & head out the back to the toilets. They are always amazed when I tell them to use the public toilets at the end of the street. What the f&*k do they expect? A dozen people a day will try this when it's busy & they often make an awful, pissy, shitty mess too.
Same with travelers wanting hot water in a flask for tea, like I'm going to drain my boiler for free for them, then they ask for free cups...., tap water for tight arses.
I have dozens of examples & pet hates from people assuming they are the centre of the universe & should get stuff for free.
If people have the courtesy to ask & show a little respect I bend over backwards for them but they are in the minority.
I'm now comfortable telling bludgers & f&*kwits exactly what I think of them, nay, I enjoy it now.