Eating In Store Restaurants

[libraaudio]

Is there any legal reason why one can't eat food bought in the store in their restaurant/ cafe?

[heathfield]

Ah, VAT. Complex, innit?

[libraaudio]

joko-no agenda, just something that has always puzzeled me and as I said works abroad but not here. It is also strange you can do it at a station even if the station has a cafe!! Looks as if there is no hard and fast ruling.

[libraaudio]

hc4361-Love the hard and fast response BUT in the real world how would this go down if the press got to hear about it and what would it do for the store's image?

[woofgang]

a. not much b.not a lot

[woofgang]

try walking into that station cafe and eating your own food sat at their tables

[woofgang]

The hard and fast ruling is in its own premises, cafe owners can, with certain exceptions, set and enforce their own rules.....how many more times?

[themorrigan]

surely this is going off the OP which was that a Store could prevent you from eating food in their cafe that you had brought in their store . No one would condone going into a cafe and eating a product you had bought somewhere else thats just silly.

[hc4361]

libraaudio, the press wouldn't be interested unless it involved:
a family/group eating in the restaurant with a severely disabled person unable to eat the food on offer;
a baby needing to eat the home made baby food parents brought along because baby has severe allergies or there is no baby food on offer;
any other tragic, heart pull scenario you can think of.

The popular press might take a mocking line in respect of the non-customer taking advantage. I can see the headline - Cheeky diner ejected from restaurant for bringing his own picnic.