Blow it out! Harvester returns to self-serve salad bar ax and opens conversations to bring them back
- Founded in 1983, the chain traditionally lets diners serve themselves at the salad bar, stacking their high plates with vegetables, pasta and sandwiches.
- But since the Covid pandemic, customers have had to queue to be served by staff
- Harvester, which has over 220 eateries in the UK, is now in talks after a social media backlash
Popular family restaurant chain Harvester is holding crunch talks to consider reversing its decision to ditch self-serve salad bars after public outcry.
Founded in 1983, the chain traditionally lets diners serve themselves at the salad bar, stacking their high plates with vegetables, pasta, and sandwiches.
But since the Covid pandemic, customers have had to queue to be served by an employee.
Harvester, which has over 220 eateries in the UK, is now reconsidering after a backlash on social media.
Popular family restaurant chain Harvester is considering reversing its decision to close its self-service salad bars after a public outcry
Founded in 1983, the chain traditionally lets diners serve themselves at the salad bar, stacking their high plates with vegetables, pasta, and sandwiches. But since the Covid pandemic, customers have had to queue to be served by an employee
A source told The Sun: “Talks are underway between customer focus groups and the heads of the company and it looks like the salad bar will go back to self-service.
“Clients were clearly upset about the news and Harvester wants to rectify that.”
Among those who had previously taken to Twitter to complain was Simon Harris.
Commenters on Twitter were outraged that Harvester’s self-serve salad bar policy has changed
He wrote: “Harvester is scrapping the self-service salad bar in all their restaurants and employees are going to fill the bowl instead. If this is a direct result of consuming 154 mini gherkins in one sitting in August 2018, I would like to apologize to Britain.”
Another, Lea, wrote: ‘Harvester changing the way they serve the salad bar is a travesty.’
Meanwhile, Twitter user Viscount Gavin wrote, “That’s a shame. It was always fun to stack random salad together.’
According to the company’s website, Harvester serves more than 30 million meals a year.