motorway service areas

jamoor · 10 Mar 2006 at 00:48

I know they have to provide picnic areas, but the facilities that they have inside, tables chairs etc, are you allowed to take you own food there and eat it??

Shiz · 10 Mar 2006 at 00:51

I would have thought they would get a bit bitchy with you. I had a problem with a coffee place when I took something in there to eat. They said I had to buy something, so I bought a coffee and poured it into the nearest plant and sat back down with my empty mug and ate my sarnie :cool:

chrisd · 10 Mar 2006 at 00:55

Shiz said:
I had a problem with a coffee place

Not surprised if you're pouring coffee over their plants

qwerty · 10 Mar 2006 at 01:23

jamoor said:
I know they have to provide picnic areas, but the facilities that they have inside, tables chairs etc, are you allowed to take you own food there and eat it??

You prat and a half! What kind of person would want to have an indoor picnic at a motorway service station? They are for taking a johnny cash, getting some petrol when desperate, and nothing else!

pinkegobox · 10 Mar 2006 at 01:36

i imagine he's driving somewhere using motorways, and wants to stop at some point for a rest stretch his legs and eat his sandwich somewhere other than in his car. in which case, a motorway service station is significantly more conveniant than driving down some random a road hoping for somewhere to stop.

in all honesty, i don't know. i imagine it depends on the type of seating in the service station. some have a general seating area, and some have seating areas for specific parts. at least, that's how i remember it. worst that will happen is they ask you not to eat there, and you do as suggested... buy something cheap from their shop like a bottle of coke or something.

Robh

Enfield · 10 Mar 2006 at 01:41

I guess it boils down to who is running the place and their mood but I'd imagine that it be frowned upon.

jamoor · 10 Mar 2006 at 08:09

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pinkegobox said:
i imagine he's driving somewhere using motorways, and wants to stop at some point for a rest stretch his legs and eat his sandwich somewhere other than in his car. in which case, a motorway service station is significantly more conveniant than driving down some random a road hoping for somewhere to stop.

in all honesty, i don't know. i imagine it depends on the type of seating in the service station. some have a general seating area, and some have seating areas for specific parts. at least, that's how i remember it. worst that will happen is they ask you not to eat there, and you do as suggested... buy something cheap from their shop like a bottle of coke or something.

Robh

Bottle of coke = £3

anyway reason is that I am driving down south tomorrow along the m1, I used to live in Rugby and used to go to one of the best chippys in the uk (browsover fish bar) now I want to stopover (yes its that good!) but its takeaway only and I cant think of anywhere else to sit and eat it apart from car/motorway services.