Case 396 – Cafe refuses to sell untoasted fruit bread

[Social Integrator]

A supermarket cafe refused to sell a packet of fruit bread on health and safety grounds as the customer didn’t want it toasted.

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[Marvo]

They must be getting soft, poorly trained staff and no 100K fine.....

 

[Sidewinder]

Not like Travis Perkins, £2M, for allowing a customer to be killed on one of their yards, & Balfour Beatty £2.6M for killing a young Welsh lad on site up North, the SECOND 7 figure fine for Balfour Beatty this year!

McCain foods, £800k for incorrect machinery guarding and an employee nearly loosing an arm.

TBH, the bread thing is just stupidity, and the company should be named & shamed.

The other three I have posted here deserve it.

 

[Tony S]

Not like Travis Perkins, £2M, for allowing a customer to be killed on one of their yards, & Balfour Beatty £2.6M for killing a young Welsh lad on site up North, the SECOND 7 figure fine for Balfour Beatty this year!

McCain foods, £800k for incorrect machinery guarding and an employee nearly loosing an arm.

TBH, the bread thing is just stupidity, and the company should be named & shamed.

The other three I have posted here deserve it.

I worked for them as a production manager, I’m sayin nout.

 

[OnOff]

I went into a KFC. The food was ready behind the counter and the manager came along and started rollocking the guy serving me. Apparently he shouldn't have placed the coleslaw tub on top of the hot food but given it to me in a separate bag. I thought fair enough, makes some sense, nobody likes warm coleslaw (do they?). BUT.....never had it happen in any other KFC.

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

At my wedding only a short while ago, we were not allowed to serve our wedding cake. It was written into the contract at the venue (who did the catering) we supply the cake. However at the end of the evening when they supplied the fancy silver plate and knife, plus fancy entwined champagne glasses and announced the cake is to be cut, they then said to us "due to health & safety rules we could not serve the cake as if anyone got food poisoning from it they would get blamed" We could though give it as a going home present.

To be honest i did not want it to ruin the evening & also  when we got home 2 weeks later i could not be bothered to argue as it was a very good evening apart from that.

 

[misssweden]

At my wedding only a short while ago, we were not allowed to serve our wedding cake. It was written into the contract at the venue (who did the catering) we supply the cake. However at the end of the evening when they supplied the fancy silver plate and knife, plus fancy entwined champagne glasses and announced the cake is to be cut, they then said to us "due to health & safety rules we could not serve the cake as if anyone got food poisoning from it they would get blamed" We could though give it as a going home present.

To be honest i did not want it to ruin the evening & also  when we got home 2 weeks later i could not be bothered to argue as it was a very good evening apart from that.

That's the most riddiculus thing I've ever heard. I worked at a wedding venue for 3 years and we never ever supplied the cake, it was down to the bride and groom to source one which we would then cut and serve. As any normal place would. What a way to lose customers. 

 

[Marvo]

I still don't understand how the 'case' of declining to sell untoasted bread could have got before an official HSE committee and also why they actually thought they needed to preside over it and produce a verdict......

 

[Sidewinder]

I still don't understand how the 'case' of declining to sell untoasted bread could have got before an official HSE committee and also why they actually thought they needed to preside over it and produce a verdict......

HSE have a mythbusters panel.

Incidents such as this are reported to them by the public, and this panel then issue a statement in answer, as to whether the "case" was H&S related or not.

 

[Tony S]

The only danger with a wedding cake I came across photographing 100’s of weddings was an “unsafe structure”.

The photograph was hilarious, the look on the bride and grooms faces as the cake did an impression of the Tower of Pisa was classic.