Why do garden centres traditionally have small cafes in them?

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Hmmm? Out of town DIY stores don't. Out of town electronics stores don't. PC World doesn't. Why are garden centres so fucking special?

Also, did garden centres originate the "mince in pastry" substitution for a proper sausage roll thing?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

Because the target demographic cannot go ten minutes without having a nice cup of tea and a sit down.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Because garden centres are fucking boring, and anything to take away the monotony is a good thing.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Out of town DIY stores don't.

Uber B&Q Warehouse places have cafes in them.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

Also, Abbey now has a cafe.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

I would never go near a garden centre if there wasn't the cheering prospect of a cake luring me in.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

Someone else needs to address the 'mince in pastry' issue because we don't have a mock sausage roll problem here in Australia.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

i think eating a bit of pastry makes you remember how good it is to have pastry in the garden and thus makes you buy more garden goods!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

whereas people don't generally eat sausage rolls at the same time as building a table or painting the walls (do they??)

as for PC world i guess there really ought to be a coca cola dispenser so that programmers remember how good it is to drink a coca cola whilst working on a C++ project on his brand new overpriced PC from PC world.....

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

not that real programmers would ever buy from PC world (shudder). i don't know what the demographics of the PC world customers actually, i guess parents who thinks buying a new PC (with fancy 3D graphics cards that helps quake run faster) for their kids would really help them study. what kind of cafes do they go to???

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

sorry about the grammar in that last post. (i played quake when i should have worked on my English GCSE)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

Real programmers build their own programmin' rigz from empty coke cans.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

The pungent reek of potting mix can easily spoil the flavour of a bit of pastry.

boring xpost

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:05 (twenty years ago)

The pungent reek of potting mix can easily spoil the flavour of a bit of pastry.

That's why they don't serve pastry in snooker clubs!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

(unfunny and untrue! go me)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

I suspect your theory about no sausage rolls when you're painting walls is made-up nonsense.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

but you'll end up eating paint like ralph!!!!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Out-of-town DIY stores traditionally have a dodgy burger van permanently lodged in the carpark so that builders can swill down mugs of greasy tea in their transits.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

capturing the twee market.

lots of xxxxxxposts - there is a pepsi machine in PC World, Southend.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

There's a vending machine at our local Bunnings (a hardware chain) stocked with stale Snickers bars and dispiriting packets of mints. You can buy a can of coke if you want to.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

That is quite a sad image :(

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes they do saussie sizzles outside Bunnings and Harwarehouse too!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

If you stop to buy a sausage sandwich you often end up with raffle tickets as well for something you hope you won't win which makes you think that knowing your luck you will win this time, but you don't.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Actually, branches of Staples tend to have vending machines near the door. Perhaps buying stationery is a more significantly dehydrating task than other shopping trips?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

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