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21st April 2005, Page 12
21st April 2005
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Stuart Thomas gives us his regular round-up of the way the newspapers have covered the world of transport this week.

It's noi been a good couple of months for Little Chef. First it had the ignominy of scraping around for someone to buy 180 of its branches; then savage TV and restaurant reviewer Victor Lewis-Smith decided to pop in and try out "Happy Eater's runt twin" for his weekly column in The Guardian. And as we too have often bemoaned what the now unpopular fat little cook (the Little Chef logo, not LewisSmith) has to offer, the acerbic writer's subsequent review was a joy to read.

He opted for 'The Olympic" breakfast of eggs, bacon, tomatoes, toast and "two sad, sad sausages, surely the wurst (sic) I've ever eaten, with less flavour than roadkill stuffed into a condom."

Nine hundred words later and any Little Chef employee reading his, well, more obituary than review, will most likely have buried themselves alive in an effort to escape the disgrace.

"How dare Little Chef describe itself on its website as being 'synonymous with serving good food'? Never again," raged the dreadlocked diner, who was left more than 0 lighter for his troubles.

But Little Chef apparently has its admirers too. The RAC Foundation's Edmund King told the Daily Mail: "People have always criticised Little Chef's quality and its possibly gone against them. There has no doubt been snobbism aimed at Little Chef... it will be a loss for the ,rakWa kW-W.-L-4g 4..-7.f"--4. k.._'a.lt-p: ---gaPc--L-1 road network."

King added that its plight was WITH not helped by impatient motorists who were "reluctant to stop and sit down and wait for service".

Hmmm... we're not so sure that was the cause of its downfall, King. But Lewis-Smith, be warned— The Sun concluded its story on the restaurant chain's descent with the chilling portent: "The chain may be bought up by a fast food rival like McDonald's."

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