Greggs Beats Met Ban on Sausage Rolls

 

Greggs has won its battle with the Metropolitan Police over plans to sell sausage rolls and other hot food late at night in its flagship Leicester Square store.

The bakery chain had applied for a 24-hour licence for the store, but the Met objected, saying it was concerned about the potential for increased crime and disorder.

However, a licensing sub-committee of Westminster Council has now approved the application, saying it was satisfied that Greggs had put in place adequate measures to prevent problems.

These include the installation of CCTV, the employment of security guards and the removal of seating from the store.

The decision is a victory for Greggs, which has been keen to offer late-night food to customers in the busy Leicester Square area.

It is also a setback for the Met, which had argued that the extended opening hours would lead to an increase in crime and disorder.

The decision is likely to be welcomed by many people who work or live in the area, who will now be able to get a Greggs sausage roll at any time of day or night.

It is also a boost for the bakery chain, which has been facing increasing competition from other food retailers.

The decision is likely to set a precedent for other businesses in the area, which may now be more likely to apply for late-night licences.

The decision is also likely to be welcomed by the local council, which is keen to see the area become more vibrant and attractive to visitors.

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Nanny Bans Greggs Sausage Rolls

 

Greggs has fallen foul of Nanny and is preparing for a court fight against its ban on selling late night sausage rolls and bacon baps at its flagship Leicester Square store.

The baker was refused permission to trade hot food 24 hours a day last year after the Met argued that the extended opening times could lead to a wave of “crime and disorder”. The Met, I would have thought, has more pressing internal matters to address rather than fret over sausage rolls.

Anyhoo, Nanny is worried that the 24 hour Greggs will cause problems if people are allowed to eat sausage rolls there (rather ignoring the fact that a hungry drunk is more aggressive than a full one).

A three-day court hearing has now been scheduled for May 16, 17 and 18 where Greggs will appeal the decision not to allow it to serve up hot food after 11pm at the West End location.

The absolute nonsense of this ban can be seen by the fact that the majority of the food sold by Greggs is made at industrial bakeries and then re-heated. Shops do not need a licence to sell them because they are not kept hot in store.

However the  other cooked products, such as bacon baps, sausage breakfast rolls and potato wedges, as well as tea and coffee, needs special permission from the local authority to be sold between 11pm and 5am.

As such, the Met and council have banned some food but not other food.

Greggs said customers could become “confused” if its full menu was not available to them all evening and would be more likely to cause trouble. 

As noted, the Met has more than enough internal issues to worry about. Given that it can't see the absurdity of banning some food but not other food, I doubt that it has a chance in hell of being able to rectify its internal problems!

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Nanny Wants To Ban Greggs

 

My sympathies to the good people of North Shields who would like to have access to a bakery.

Nanny doesn't like the idea that Greggs has applied to move into a vacant unit in the Collingwood Centre, and is doing her best to ban it.

Wendy Burke, the borough's director of public health, is quoted by The Chronicle:

"Two thirds of adults and one third of 10-11 year olds adults in the borough are either overweight or obese.

A key priority both nationally and locally is to encourage healthy eating. This is incredibly difficult to do if we continue to allow developments that promote the sale of food high in fat, calories and salt within our commercial centres and in the immediate vicinity of our local schools and leisure centres, as an increasing proportion of people consume food outside the home."

She added that a new Greggs would make it easy for youngsters to buy "cheap, highly calorific food not only for breakfast, but also for lunch and tea".

She is seeking to blame obesity on a chain of bakers!

Sadly a petition with 73 signatures has been submitted against the development, citing concerns over childhood obesity, cooking smells, loss of residential amenity, vehicle noise, loss of visual amenity, litter and vermin problems. A further 33 letters of objection have also been sent to the council.

Coun Peter Earley, cabinet member for children, young people and skills, said in his objection that the a Greggs would be "detrimental to health and wellbeing of children and young people who attend nearby schools and would be situated in an area where there is already a significant issue with rising levels of childhood obesity".
All of this is of course utter bollocks:

1 Obesity cannot be blamed on a particular chain of bakers

2 Greggs is a bakers, not a "fast food" outlet.

3 It's not the role of the state to dictate what people may or may not eat.

4 The unit is vacant, if these cretins had their way it would remain forever vacant and be ablight upon the high street!

Nanny can fuck off!

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Merry Greggsmas - Jesus Becomes Sausage Roll

Oh dear, Greggs the bakers has managed to offend a few people with its Christmas Advent Calendar.

The baby Jesus in the crib has been replaced with a pork sausage roll, thus managing to offend Christians and Jews (Jesus was Jewish).

However, Metro noted that there were a flurry of pastry related puns, such as ‘Jesus Crust, our savoury’ and ‘Away in Pret A Manger’.

Hey ho, and we aren't even in December yet!

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