steepholm

I associate Little Chef--and Happy Eater!--entirely with roadside services rather than takeaway. Little Chef was considered by my family the classier choice, I think because fewer of them had a children's play area, which, at age 4 or 5, disappointed me much. There was a particular Happy Eater play area, visible from the A1, which contained a fascinating-looking brown monster with swings on its arms and a slide protruding from its gaping mouth. Some years later (I think I must have been in my early teens) I saw it again, in considerable dilapidation, and realised that the 'monster' was actually meant to be an anthropomorphic tree. I never got to play on it. /deprived child