Popular family restaurant chain Harvester is reported to be shutting up its iconic self-service salad bar in what has been called the end of a Great British institution. The salad option will still be available with meals, but diners will be barred from piling up their own plates.
Instead, they will have to queue to be served by a member of staff. Popular items favourites such as bacon bits, olives and beetroot chunks also appear to have been ditched as rising costs put pressure on the viability of the previously all-you-can-eat facility, a national newspaper reports.
One customer of a restaurant in Sussex, said: “We’ve always loved going to Harvester as a family, but this has made us think again. The salad bar is one of the best parts. I don’t like having to point and ask for my scoops of coleslaw, sweetcorn and thousand island sauce. When we complained we were told it was a company-wide measure caused by rising costs. It feels like the death of a Great British institution.”
