The boss of Marks & Spencer has stepped in to reverse a ban on the shop’s cafes promoting teacakes after 11am.
Upset that they couldn’t have them with their afternoon tea as standard, clients took to social media, and even wrote a letter to The Day by day Telegraph, to complain.
Marion Hansford, from Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, wrote: ‘Final week, after I requested for a toasted teacake, I used to be informed that toasted teacakes at the moment are a breakfast merchandise and never served after 11am. Phrases fail me.’
The baked candy buns made with spices and dried currants or sultanas are served reduce in half, toasted after which buttered.
The boss of Marks & Spencer has stepped in to reverse a ban on the shop’s cafes promoting teacakes after 11am
Upset that they couldn’t have them with their afternoon tea as standard, clients took to social media, and even wrote a letter to The Day by day Telegraph, to complain
They had been historically served at afternoon tea, as a snack with a cuppa. Extra not too long ago, they’ve been served with espresso within the morning.
BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny tweeted the letter, which obtained greater than 3,000 likes and nearly 400 retweets – together with one copying in M&S chief govt Stuart Machin.
He replied: ‘Completed. Toasted teacakes will likely be again on the all-day menu.’ Earlier than the U-turn, Twitter customers joked about M&S’s weird resolution to limit teacakes to the breakfast menu.
Graham Brack tweeted: ‘If teacakes had been solely out there at teatime, I might perceive the restriction, however have we sunk to date that persons are supplied teacakes for breakfast?’
Douglas McWilliams wrote: ‘You’d have hoped that the clue that they weren’t a breakfast merchandise was within the identify?’
Marks & Spencer mentioned: ‘One in every of our hottest menu choices, they are often loved all day in any of our 330 cafes.’
