Unbothered, unapologetic and unacceptable.

This morning me, my partner and our friend went to go and have breakfast. We live just over the road and used to go to the butlers bell a lot when it was the Wetherspoons but haven’t been in much since it changed to Davenport’s.

I arrived at 10:40am, found a table and we placed our order around 10:50am. Initially, I was concerned by the service (or lack of). The bartender, who we later discovered was a manager, input the order wrong a number of times and had to be corrected on several occasions before getting it correct. They then haphazardly splashed some orange juice in a glass and slammed it down on the side spilling it around the glass. We weren’t off to a great start but we went and waited for our food.

30 minutes later and the food hadn’t arrived so I went inside just to ask how long the wait time was. I was met with “the kitchen did say it was a 30 minute wait”, new information to me but I was reassured they would go and check where it was.

20 minutes later the food finally arrived… or some of it did. One of the meals was completely missing and we were told it had mistakenly been taken to another table. When the two of us who had meals looked at the plate we were missing a number of items from the advertised breakfasts. Eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms. There was very little attempt at an apology with just one of the members of staff claiming responsibility for the mixup but nothing further from the “manager”.

We were told the other breakfast would be out in 5 mins so we waited… 10-15 mins passed and nothing had come so we decided we would leave and get a refund. Nobody checked if the food was okay or if there were any issues so I had to explain to the “manager” who was signed in on the till system as ‘Jacob’ but I’m assuming this wasn’t their login given the complete lack of apology or professionalism. I explained we had missing items and one breakfast which never arrived after being there for an hour so I wanted a refund for the breakfasts. I was told that because we’d accepted the other two breakfasts they would not refund them but only the one which didn’t arrive and that it was not possible for them to refund the other two.

I was then handed cash from the till in the total of about £11, slightly more than the cost of one breakfast. I explained that I had paid on card and wanted the refund on the same method of payment, again I was told this just wasn’t possible for them to do.

First time going there to eat since it changed hands and it will definitely be the last. Poor service, poor quality food and generally a total lack of care or compassion for the customer.