Wimpy

[looney]

Do Wimpy still take your order at the table or do you have to queue now like all the other burger chains?

Take orders.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

How early in the 70s did you work there?

I'd guess at around 74 or 75 - only part time [weekends]
I have something nagging a retired brain cell that the fella who owned the newsagent in Lustrells Vale [Saltdean] also owned the franchise Wimpy [can't remember which one]

My big sister [Annette] also worked there, probably 72/73/74 ish

 

[Dumseagull]

Bit O/T but what about little chef? Not seen one of them for a while?


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[Nixonator]

There was one in Blatchington Road next to KFC wasn't there? Chicken Cottage now.

 

[Is it PotG?]

...nor the good old Happy Eater like the one on the A23 (now a garage?) from 'Mona Lisa'

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

This is true. A treat for a kid in the 50s or 60s as my old dad would say " you'll get an orange for Christmas".

Would that be the 1850's and 60's? Don't think things were quite that bad in the 20th century were they? an orange for Christmas?

 

[whitelion]

Would that be the 1850's and 60's? Don't think things were quite that bad in the 20th century were they? an orange for Christmas?

It was my dad's sense of Cockney humour when he was growing up in the 20s in Bow fresh fruit was a treat especially imported fruit.

 

[LU7 RED]

Ah..The 'Brown Derby' - still the best use of doughnut and ice cream there has ever been.

 

[Bozza]

Bit O/T but what about little chef? Not seen one of them for a while?


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Little Chef guru [MENTION=12825]cunning fergus[/MENTION] needs to get involved at this point.

 

[W.C.]

Take orders.

Fascist.

 

[jcdenton08]

I've had FEW BENDERS I can TELL you

A return TO form

 

[kingcole]

...nor the good old Happy Eater like the one on the A23 (now a garage?) from 'Mona Lisa'

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I've got a happy eater salt and pepper pot somewhere

 

[looney]

Fascist.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Bit O/T but what about little chef? Not seen one of them for a while?


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I'm no food snob (well maybe a little) but they really are awful, how they are still going I have no idea.
Strangely there are quite a few all along the A303.
They were in trouble not so long ago due to very bad sales, I'm not surprised.
On my way back from Brighton last year I stopped off at one on the A303 and as usual it was dreadful and only a handful of people in there.
Apart from that road I do not know how many still exist.

 

[Paris]

The last time I went in a Wimpy was about 12 years ago, Swanage in Dorset.

Did you pull?

 

[Bladders]

Last one I went to was in Swanage, still there.

Eastbourne just lost theirs with the bulldozing of the Arndale and when I drove through Bexhill town centre the other week for the first time in years I noticed theirs has gone too.

 

[hitony]

I'd guess at around 74 or 75 - only part time [weekends]
I have something nagging a retired brain cell that the fella who owned the newsagent in Lustrells Vale [Saltdean] also owned the franchise Wimpy [can't remember which one]

My big sister [Annette] also worked there, probably 72/73/74 ish

I went out with an amazing girl around that time, she worked in the Western Road Wimpy, I won't put her name on here, it would be unfair, but she was really pretty! she was a waitress, If my memory serves me well she did the job part time, sat + sun and other shifts (i think! )

 

[BN9 BHA]

Did you pull?

You have lost me?

 

[Colossal Squid]

Grinstead used to have one though it seems to have become a Pizza Hut now, sadly.

Used to be one not far from East Croydon station too, which also seems to have been lost to time.

Glad they're still going. There's something about them you just don't really get anywhere else

 

[Colossal Squid]

Also, anyone remember the game?