Can restaurants refuse to cut food into smaller portions?

Again, no more than the wheelchair poster, that is a very different scenario than a soft pancake and a cast on one wrist before ordering.

do you expect the 18 year old waiter to be a carer? What point are you actually making? Or just expressing outrage?

Waiting staff are often involved in the final part of food preparation, and the exceptionally simple task of making a few slices of a pancake at the table should have been done without fuss.

The vibe among some people these times is to be as unhelpful as possible. “It’s not my job to be helpful”.

I agree….. in an ideal world with first class experienced waiting staff this might happen. The reality is kids barely out of school, earning dreadful wages in a scenario where most eating establishments can't even get staff! I was in a pizza place the other evening and the 2 young lads who were waiting spent most of their time checking their phones. Its very hard to get any staff right now never mind staff who will cut up your dinner.

I agree fully with this, but also that your best option now is to either forget about it alltogether and not dinner there again, or send an email (Ring/Talk) to management to make them aware of what happened, and your dissatisfaction and than not dine there again.

It must be very hard to navigate life with such extreme sense of entitlement.

never heard such *rap. i thought the poster was having a laugh. Maybe they still are. cannot believe you would order something you can't manage with an arm in a cast. are your fingers not free? and thumb? order something that you can't manage and ask the cafe to cut it up for you. for real?

instead of wondering how the cafe should have responded, did ya ever think how insulting it is?

trust me, i've a real life disability, and had temporary disabilities (which i count as accidents and disabilities) and i would never dream of putting someone out or making an unreasonable request like you have.

unreasonable. glad they said no.

i'm sure they would help someone who genuinely needed it.

You can compost your little straw man😁

You expect a silver service experience from your humble servants.

Me, I don’t have the lofty sense of entitlement others have, of some kid bringing food from kitchen to restaurant table.

OP should ask for plastic bag (or bring his own as they may be plastic bag levy involved), put it over cast and mash crepes to the point he can comfortably use a spoon.

it amazes me the way servers are infantilised and called “kids”, beyond expectations of being an adult. Age 17 I was working in a public facing role and expected to understand customers’ needs. You can have a full pilot’s license age 17/18 and take on any number of complex responsibilities, travel the world solo, pass arduous exams etc etc. At that age is someone thought of me as a “kid” I wouldn’t have been slow to respond.

On the other hand I do wonder if OP is serious here. At same time I don’t know what company OP was in. If if were their new boss from work (and if this were the case OP would surely have mentioned it) then asking server discreetly would have been reasonable.

make sure to plaster your dominant arm up well, to the fingertips, and to order it very well done 🤣

It really is some jumped up nonsense to demand that servers carry out body service, as if they exist only to cater to the whim of everyone who comes through the door.

Perhaps mammy spoonfed these people for a few years too many but that doesn't mean the rest of society needs to entertain their nonsense.

Of course these same people would be the first to raise hell if the server got gravy mixed with the veg while they were mashing the spuds for them. They'd cry like babies if the pancakes weren't cut at the correct angle or were flattened a bit by the cutting.

If they shouldn't have to cut up food for babies in the high chairs, then why the hell should they have to do it for grown adults.

if both hands in a cast should restaurant have to feed you?