Can restaurants refuse to cut food into smaller portions?

Complainant barrister, 'And what training did the server have in food preparation before cutting up X's food?'

I don't think so. The core question is whether is it reasonable to make a particular accommodation (in this case, cutting up the food). If it is, they you have to make that accommodation. It's no answer to say that you've made a different accommodation (offering gruel on the menu). The point about a restaurant is that the diner selects what he would like from the menu offered. That's part of the service that the patron with a disability wishes to access, and the question is "what is it reasonable to expect the restaurant to do to enable the patron to access the service?" In that context, being willing to cut up the food looks like a no-brainer to me. "We offer a limited menu of food that doesn't need to be cut up for disabled diners" is not a defence that is going to succeed here.

So according to the server the restaurant kitchen wasn’t “ set up “ to cut a pancake into a few pieces. Need to send in Gordon Ramsey 😋

Not effecting your ability to type beautifully or did you have this done for you as well?

So is suffering from coeliac disease a disability? It is something that restricts normal activity so does that mean that the restaurant must provide a gluten free alternative to every dish, not just give the customer alternative gf options? Lots of cafes don't offer any gf alternatives, should there be legislation about it?

A cast on an arm is an inconvenience and generally people would do their best to help someone in that situation, but not making any attempt to mitigate their own problems by choosing suitable food, then asking for someone to cut up their food while they have someone with them who could easily do it is just unreasonable.

its ok for the op to ask the waiter to cut up the food, but to start a thread about it and act as if it was some big Rosa Parks incident is ridiculous.

I bet if the op was stranded on a desert island they wouldn't care about getting the crepes cut up. 😂

I am simply offended by someone making a mock of real disabilities by pretending a few weeks with a cast on their arm is anything approaching a disability.

And as to my 'first step into equal rights', I was one of the initiators and mod of this forum for several years.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

A couple of thoughts…

1. I saw this thread earlier, I can't believe it is still open.
2. If I had my wrist in a cast, I probably would not go out pancakes with my friend to begin with. I'd more likely say "Lets stay at home and order pizza".
3. I am sure if the OP was there alone the server would have obliged, however they were with their friend and probably thought it would be more sensitive if the friend did it.

I can’t believe this thread is still going, over a cast on a wrist, and that anyone would draw a parallel with someone who is wheelchair bound.
As a society, have we really reached that point of entitlement that we think the restaurant should be required to cut a pancake up?

There was a thread some years ago where a poster asked if they could sue because he/she got a burn from the steam coming from the spout on their kettle, and another one wanted to know where they could complain because their dog got hit by post put through the letterbox of their door by the postman, this makes it a hatrick.

Your empathy is overwhelming ;)