Tesco Cafe — Restaurant in Maldon

It's a cafeteria! Service is painfully slow very often. A big problem appears to be that the design of the serving/kitchen areas prevents staff from being able to see anyone waiting to be served. This means you can wait for a really long time, sometimes around 10 minutes before someone comes from the kitchen to see if there are any customers. That's depressing. On top of that, if a customer orders a couple of specialist coffees that's another 3 or 4 minutes whilst that is being dealt with. All for the sake of a window and 2 staff members to...

Worst breakfast ever ! Avocado, tomatoes, poached egg, lime & chilli on sour dough. Toast dry, no oil or butter on, egg solid, no taste of lime, just the smallest tiny piece on side of plate, no care or attention to detail or presentation. Husband had vegan breakfast, even worse! Freezing tomatoes cut in half not even warmed, cold wilted (not wilted !) spinach, mushroom half cooked and half cold ! The only thing OK was coffee and hot chocolate and all that for just over £15. Total rip off !! Never eat...

Very disappointing service. Went with my family to do some shopping, kids are hungry and at 3:10pm Saturday 5th August, after queueing for food the man at the counter told us they arent taking any more orders and that we can only order cakes or teas. No signage or a heads up. At 3:10pm!! They're supposed to be open until 5pm. Well if you're open until 5pm and turned away at 3pm it's safe to say we'll take our...