Beanscene policy

[percival]

There's a chain of coffee shops in Scotland, Beanscene, who has now posted an explicit policy on child visitors:
- Children are to be fully supervised at all times.
- Toddlers and small children have to sit at the table for the duration of the visit.
- Children must not sit on the floor.

All well and good, and perfectly fine, but ...

... Beanscene's Unique Selling Point is that they are a place where families with small children can go and relax a little. This is how they are marketing themselves - a destination cafe for mums and babies/toddlers/small kids. We used to love it when our DD was tiny! Any hot drinks to sit in are served by the staff, not taken away from the counter by the customers themselves. I don't know about you, but when I take my toddler to a cafe, I find that a bit of fully supervised floor time or a closely supervised trip to the toy box can work wonders, especially when there's more than one adult.

They do have toy boxes, but last time I visited one, half the toys were broken/unusable. The Stirling Beanscene is said to have no more toys.

Beanscene are expanding south of the border into England now. Will you believe the hype?

Comments

[perceval.livejournal.com]

Yup, exactly - that's what a small church-based coffee place does where we always go after toddler gymnastics