Little Chef Reviews

Hi. I used to work for Little Chef during the great years of Forte too as a Deputy Manager and Staff Trainer. I couldn't agree with you more on your comments. Let's hope another large catering company buy up the remaining sites and put some investment, training and modernisation work in.

my family and i stopped at the little chef on the A303, the service was well less than expected,. we arrived and were told that it would be half an hour before any food would ready as they had ran out of food but then we were given a table and were asked to order as the food had JUST arrived and was being unloaded. so we ordered. the food arrived ...  Read the complete review

having had the misfortune to work for lc it comes as no suprise that the brand looks like it has died.Thank goodness!!The senior managers,directors,and site managers are at best poor.Far to much of any profit go into leasing directors cars and not back into the restaurants.Having no air con in the summer and no heating in the winter is the ...  Read the complete review

I have travelled on the roads of this country for many years riding a motorcycle and have been a regular visitor to Little Chef. Originally I bought meals etc. and always regarded them as being barely adequate and vastly overpriced. The places were used more often during the winter months when I called in to use the toilet facilities and get ...  Read the complete review

Disgusting - 4 dry baps each containing a tiny piece of bacon and a stale undercooked fried egg!!! Take away price £15.96. This was on the outskirts of Skipton but I suspect it would be the same at all outlets. No more will I darken their doors. I couldn't delete the star rating so assume it is negative and all five selscted. I ...  Read the complete review

Little Chef had all the potential and realities of a well run and efficient and above all, friendly business back in the 1980s and early 1990s. What happened? People in the Uk so often just sit back and let the market take over without questioning the end result. If you bought a house and left it to rot you would be unlikely to make a profit. ...  Read the complete review

I made the biggest mistake last week on my way to london and decided to drop into a branch of Little Chef and decided on a gutbuster breakfast which to my surprise consisted of just half a slice of toast, 1 sausage, 1 egg, 1 small rasher of bacon and a few pale looking beans AND it cost a whopping 3.99, needless to say my appetite was not even ...  Read the complete review

Once through the Dartford Tunnel it is a straight haul up the A12, to drive from London to East Anglia. However, there are no roadside cafes virtually from the moment you leave Catford all the way to Colchester. It was only when we reached the other side of the ancient roman and military town, two hours after leaving London, that we found anywhere ...  Read the complete review

Driving back from Anglesea yesterday, we decided to break the journey by stopping at the Little Chef. (Along the A55, Conway i think!) It was around tea time and we were all hungry. In our party there was myself, my partner, my 7 year old son and the mother in law. Now we have used this particualar branch before as it is en ...  Read the complete review

Driving to Hartlepool on the A19 and we decided a tea & toilet break was imminent. So spying a Little Chef we pulled in. It was a horror story. 1, Car Park - Badly laid out full of holes which obviously today filled with water. 2, First stop, table - smoking or non-smoking, non-smoking I say, oh well you can ...  Read the complete review

my husband and myself stopped on the way to norfolk at a little chef what an experience i was on crutches and had been out of hospital about 5 days i was actually wheelchair material but my husband parked at the door and i hopped in i slipped in the entrance of the door due to the floor being wet and recieved no assistance at all however, the best ...  Read the complete review

I used to work for Little Chef. I was deputy manager at the company’s most southerly site at Hayle in Cornwall. Since leaving the company, Hayle, like many others has closed down. Other reviews on this site blame the demise of Little Chef on the parent company Permira. This is true, but the problems with the company date back further than its ...  Read the complete review

I had never been inside little chef until about 6 years ago I went to one while on my way to Manchester! While on our recent holiday we stopped at Washington to stay overnight and went to Little Chef for our evening meal! It was a Sunday evening at 6pm and it was quite quiet! There were about 4 other tables being used from the 20 ...  Read the complete review

Little Chef has always been one of our favourites, however after a long gap of non visit we visited one of our locals. Found prices risen (accepted). food now served on smaller plates. Items such as Coca/Pepsi Cola on menu for £1-89p but one entering doorway same item 99p Service very slow,one waitress to serve most with occasional entry by ...  Read the complete review

It?s around 8.25 AM, on a bright, cool morning at Ilford Road Metro Station. AS usual, trains rattle in heading towards central Newcastle every couple of minutes, but if you head in the opposite direction like I do, they're every 10 minutes. My Airport metro hasn?t arrived yet, and is already late. Just then, an announcement comes over on the ...  Read the complete review

The Tyne and Wear Metro must seem like a breath of fresh air for those of you who live in London and have the misfortune of traveling every day on the London Underground. The Metro which is funded by the tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Authority and run by Nexus, has taken on the task of providing the North East with a good quality ...  Read the complete review

A few weeks ago I tried to use several Little Chefs on the A 12 for breakfast, but gave up because they told me that I would have to wait between 30 and 45 minutes to be served. I eventually went elsewhere. I did'nt realise at the time, how lucky I was! I visited their outlet in Burford, Oxfordshire on the A40 on Saturday 21/09/02 ...  Read the complete review

For a year and a half I was an employee of Little Chef (please don't kill me, I'm only a student, I had to work somewhere!), and for the sake of anonymity I won't name where, just to add the information that of June 2002 the branch where I worked closed. The reason I want to share this information with you is to warn you that ...  Read the complete review

I stopped at a little chef on the A590 near Lindale in Cumbria the other week. I was gasping for a coffee and a visit to the loo to be quite honest; I don’t normally stop on route. I pulled into the car park, there were plenty of parking spaces fortunately and looking into the restaurant it did not seem too busy. Great! I should ...  Read the complete review

…I was a gymnast. To hear the rest of the story, scroll to the end. For the op itself, keep reading. Almost all motorway service stations these days seem to have a Little Chef somewhere inside, and numerous winding country roads are home to them too. Although we drove past a million on the M6 the other day when driving down south, ...  Read the complete review