Paper Plates!
 

The dishwasher's broken and apparently fairy liquid combined with a good old bowl of hot water is not an option.

Waddington O's Mess - Bringing the detachment eating experience closer to home!

N.B. Please remember to take two plastic forks for when your oppo snaps your first one whilst your back is turned. :(

Will there be a Drive Through option ? :E

Don't forget to double up on the oval paper plates as well! :eek:

The B Word

I hope the PMC is, even now, searching for the Mess Webley. :ooh:

As a former Wines Member and D/PMC there, I can only say "it's gone downhill"

Don't worry Ladies and Gents, I'm sure Works Services are all over this and it'll be fixed by breakfast.

And here was me thinking this thread was going to be an enlightened debate about the relative merits of good old traditional paper approach plates vs those new-fangled iPad app thingys......

But no, it's about dishes. :ugh:

An awards ceremony in Wad's OM tomorrow - I wonder if the guests will get paper cups with the coffee?! :ouch:

And presumably this is in breach of (ISS?) contract, so - at the very least - Mess Members will be Paying Less As They Dine .....

No - I don't really think so either .......... :(

...... and why not??

Paper plates today, paper planes tomorrow .....?:rolleyes:

Jack

Teeterinhead old chap ... I may be off mark ... But I suspect it has something to do with UK food hygiene regulations :eek:

That was certainly the case when Mr & Mrs Coff stayed at The Grand Del Mar in San Diego when they suffered a "power outage" one evening :hmm:

So will they be using disposable cooking utensils, pans, baking trays etc then? If not, and if they can be washed by hand, then any argument about food hygiene or the dreaded H&S regs would appear to be weakened. More likely someone has decided they don't have the inclination or time to wash up.

So so very glad I no longer live in, Messes across the Services are becoming more and more like a poor impression of a Premier Inn than a home and welcoming club for Mess members. A curse on which ever idiot signed off on the idea to contractorise messes.

Ah that old chestnut. I've heard it often in RAF messes, usually at the end of the month or financial year.

Seriously... I have never ever gone into a civvy restaurant and been given a paper f***ing plate and plastic knife and fork. It's funny how their dishwasher has never broken down.

The only time a mess got worse, was when one mess constantly failed to have the most basic of food. From what I remember, it was the only place in the uk where there were a bread famine despite the local Tesco 6 miles away having crates of the stuff.

The sooner PAYD fails the better.

Plates..... eeeeeh 't luxury, when a'rr was a lad, theee were lucky 't get it in yer 'at and 't whippet would lick thee clean, don't yee knows..



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Nutty ... Cue ...

Mind you ... I remember one business trip to the USA where I attended a corporate function with (anyhow rather indifferent) champers served in styro cups... :eek:

Hardly. One gets a TV with a full spread of digital channels in a Premier Inn. And you can wear jeans whenever the hell you want.

The messes will have to go significantly upmarket to compete with cheap motels.

Willard,

You forgot to mention the fully stocked mini-bar (exploited several times in USAF BOQ's) and heating that can be turned on/off all year round!

Not just heating - Air Conditioning!

I'll bet a PE has more than the 2 plug sockets present in my first couple of messes - one of which was on the left of the door to the corridor, with the tv aerial socket on the right :rolleyes:

Visited Leeming last year and the same arrangements in place - paper plates; though it was a one off, but ISTR it went on for several mths. I think the argument there was that the dishwasher was GFE and the RAF couldn't afford to repair it or some such. It was nearly as bad as Henlow!

Anyhoo, dragging myself back on topic; whilst on a ground tour at XW a couple of years back I used to eat in the mess at lunchtime every day of the 'working' week. It seemed the dishwasher broke down every fortnight judging by the paper plate proliferation. Even so, t'was better than eating at one's desk, which seemed all too prevalent amongst my colleagues - or worse still they'd spend lunchtime at the gym!

The main problem with paper plates was that they were considerably smaller than the earthenware ones, thus resulting in a lack of space for sufficient chips with one's burger.