KFC – Anti Baby Policy – Will not warm a baby’s bottle
We needed to stop and feed our baby son last weekend. We stopped at a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food restaurant, in Newark Lincolnshire. I took the baby milk bottle out to be heated, only to find a sign saying that they will not heat baby bottles. This is the first time I’ve come across this, but I believe this is a KFC policy rather than a feature of this particular outlet.
This is the first so called family friendly place I have been to that has refused to warm babies bottles. Some insist on heating the bottles behind the counter for health and safety reasons, but this is the first one to refuse to heat the bottle – and even advertise their anti-baby policy. This must be the most anti-baby restaurant I’ve ever come across. We then went to the McDonalds next door that were happy to help in warming the baby bottle.
KFC use health and safety as the reason, but it seams that everyone else in the country manages to find a way around this rather than hiding behind this excuse.
Here is a list of other examples that have been used in other restaurants / cafes etc.
- Bottle Warmer accessible directly by the parent (Service stations / some supermarket cafes)
- Bottle Warmer flask (Weatherspoons)
- Bottle Warmer behind the counter (some supermarket cafes)
- Jug / water container on or behind the counter (some bars / restaurants)
The most expensive of these options is about £25 – so it doesn’t exactly break the bank. KFC need to get their act together on this, in the meanwhile if you have a baby with you that may be hungry then you will want to avoid KFC.
March 31st, 2010 at 11:51 am
this is still the case in kfc, we were in the ipswich branch last week, 3 hours away from home an with a starving 4month old baby, all we were told was no sorry its against health and safety, i have since then recived a letter from their hq saying that nothing will be done about it as it is in the interests of other customers not to provide this service, its an absolute outrage!!!
April 1st, 2010 at 7:54 pm
What do they think is going to happen to these other customers?
I’m sure this would be a good contender for HSE Myths.