Mothers day set menus everywhere!!!
Mothers day We are off out sat evening instead as im so fed up having to choose between resembling 3 options or a sunday roast i dont actually wish for. Literally noone in our local area offers a decent sunday menu. Why am i not allowed to choose just because its a sunday, when you have an extensive menu mon to sat? Then i get to choose even less when its supposedly a day celebrating us. What if i dont like a roast or your random a la carte offering with very limited choice?
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Mothers Day is the busiest restaurant day of the year (with the possible exception of Valentines Day) and offering less variety makes the chefs lives a little easier
I can see both sides. I totally get that it’s much better and more efficient for the restaurant but also I’m never a fan of the mass produced Mother’s Day roast. Alternatives we have done: - Go for a curry - Pack a picnic and go for a walk (dad packs the picnic obvs, no adding...
You were right first time. Single busiest day of the year.
Thank you for a serious answer.
How often do you usually eat out on a Sunday? A large number of pubs dont do full menus on a Sunday to accomodate their roast dinner offerings.
I would if i liked what was on offer. Thats my point.
In the nicest way possible, if you don’t like their offering they don’t care. Mother’s Day is one of the busiest days of the year and they’ll have enough people who do like what they’re offering.
I agree. Frustrating though
Smaller set menu are much easier for restaurants to plan, prepare for and cook on the day, especially with the likely increased footfall. But yeah I agree with you, very annoying. It's why I never bother to eat out on Valentine's Day.
My birthday is the day before Valentines - it has always been a real issue wanting to go out and just have a ‘normal’ restaurant meal, rather than a themed meal. Also, prices get inflated and it’s shit.
So annoying!
It maximises profits for restaurants who need to turn over tables faster to accommodate an increased footfall. You can just go out on Saturday instead, or even not go out at all.
No. It's one of the busiest days of the year. It's to make it easier for the kitchen staff. A smaller set menu is easier to plan and cook, and get plates out of the kitchen faster. It has very little, if anything to do with 'maximising profits'
Like Valentines Day (or around Christmas), Mother’s Day is a day when you shouldn’t go out to a restaurant or pub for a meal. This from Delicious Magazine: “[eating out] is generally considered a bad idea due to heavily inflated prices, "set" menus with limited choices, rushe...
So true!
Because Mother’s Day is possibly the busiest day. Places want to turn over tables quickly to get maximum booking so they don’t want long waits for food and the easiest way to do it is to simply the menu. Making meals from just 4 choice is a lot quicker than from 20 and even mo...
Pretty much the same as eating out on Xmas day. High turnover easy meals. All pre booked
Every pub doing a roast every Sunday is one of my pet peeves. I find them pretty dull anyway, but my wife cooks a banging roast, so why should I go out and pay £20+ for a meal that will be worse than one I could have at home?
Because it lets your wife enjoy Sunday for once....
Exactly i do love a roast but i can do fab one at home
Because it is a very busy day where the majority of people want roasts which take up lots of oven and organisational space. You can often struggle to get food on a Sunday evening in pubs, at all.
True!
The number of brands who do not offer opt outs on Mother's Day marketing (and sometimes Valentine's Day, if I'm feeling particularly annoyed) is really helping me clear out the number of mailing lists I've ended up subscribed to.
i got an email last year from some brand that i cant remember saying “we are no longer offering opt outs for occasion days as this is more upsetting to people” ????? Its absolutely not more upsetting than boing bombarded with push notifications ordering me to BUY MUM A TREAT e...
1 day a year. Must be hard for you 🤔
No not at all i have a lovely life on the whole. But You are literally reading a thread designed to put small non meaningful day to day irritating problems. You seem surprised by someone popping in a problem. Go figure!
Anyone would think they call it a SUNDAY roast for a reason!!!! :) if you’re going to look at the big chain venues that knock out the same ‘copy and paste’ meals week in week out, then that’s what you’re paying for at the price they are offering it at. If you want choice a...
Because of a million other things happening this week, and because me and my family are uncomfortable when things are too peopley, we have simply selected another day to celebrate what a wonderful mum I am. Also, we are doing this on a Saturday so I don’t have the Sunday panic...
How fortunate that you get to celebrate and enjoy the day.
I agree i am very forunate
No not particularly, but its literally a thread for putting annoying day to day irritating problems on that you chose to read and seem surprised to see. im not on my knees crying about it in real life!
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I used to cook for my mother on mother's Day, bless her, but she always used to ask why we never went out? Cos it's mayhem and overpriced! If you want to go out, let's go weekend before or after.. Set menus set the kitchen up for the high volume as others have said This is...
That lovely. I appreciate any thoughtfulness in the day whatever it is.
Perhaps you should look further afield. I live in a small place but within 3 miles there are probably 20 places with decent offerings other than the carvery.
Thats nice. As i said there isnt anywhere that isnt doing a set menu, literally why i wrote it.
It's a hard life, eh?
I too have this problem, when we go for a family meal on a Sunday the choice is always a roast, all I want is a burger :(
We went last night instead. I had ribs yummy!
It's simple. Busy days you reduce the menu options. It's easier for a chef to make 3 different meals than 30. Otherwise the time of kitchen to table would be ridiculously high. Cook 5 of the same thing is faster than 5 different meals.
Capitalism. Maximising profit during high volumes. I would cook my mum a Mother's Day dinner when she was alive.
What? Businesses want to make money? That is CRAZY