Windmills Bakery — Restaurant in Eastbourne

Whilst most people are trying to do their best and minimise The transmission of covid-19 by using contactless payment methods, THIS PLACE would not allow me to do so, because the amount of my purchase fell short of some arbitrary minimum spend limit they had assigned. What made things worse is the only reason the amount fell short was because they were out of stock or something that I wanted to buy. It was something like 20 pence short of this limit, But the woman who served me was adamant that I would either have to pay cash or pay the extra 20 pence without getting anything for it. In a time when the hospitality and catering industry is crying out for custom, it beggars belief that they would not just process the transaction in a safe and fair manner. Surely it makes more sense to garner goodwill of your customers and make an obvious, intelligent decision to adjust the minimum spend, rather than cause a offense or force someone into using an unsafe payment method. Needless to say their inability to make a sensible business decision has lost them my custom...

I must admit, as I live within spitting distance of this Bakery I have given them ample opportunities to offer good service. Unfortunately, the owner, or the main slightly older woman working here, is too busy rushing around making up sandwiches/rolls and getting orders ready to allow herself to be polite and helpful to "Her" customers. We may not be ordering in bulk but pay attention to your daily paying walk ins!!

If you don't like the work then at least make up the sandwiches/rolls out back where you don't need to have any interaction with your customers. The younger woman working here is very "Front of House" and is polite and helpful so I suggest employing another one to take care of the day to day walk in sales!

We will now switch to Cavendish Bakery and recommend them as they are very polite and actually want to interact with their customers, are not rude, have no minimum card spend and mainly because they smile...

A fab place to go to after shopping at the Langley shopping centre this cafe you can sit inside or out in there sitting area everywhere is kept clean the staff are friendly and helpful thay sell lotts of take away from pies to sossage rolls cake all fresh and do almost every thing from sandwiches to hot meals or snacks thay sell a lot of snacks to take away or sit down with a cuppa tea or coffee meny hot drinks and cold drinks to the outside sitting area is fab clean and inside to very useful for wheelchair users outside loads of parking spaces at the moment thay are expanding the size of the shopping centre to allow more shops making it a bigger shopping centre the cafe is inside Langley shopping centre near Tesco's the atmosphere is fab due to how lovely all the staff are I give them 5 stars ...