AMPM

DIABOLICAL SERVICE… AVOID AT ALL COSTS
My wife and I sat down and were preparing to decide what to order when a staff member came up to us as rudely as anyone can be and said, «Are youse gonna order something? You can’t just sit in.» Of course we were going to order, but after that I just said, «We were going to, but not now.» Then we walked around to Caffe Nero where I am currently sipping the cappuccino served to me by a nice staff member here.

It’s one of the few things that a big city like Glasgow lacks in, a place where you can go In the early morning and grabs coffee & breakfast roll to go.
I ended up here while waiting for a bus and rather than head back up the street that l came I chose to risk it here.
I would never describe this place as a café more of a cafeteria, here there is no sound of a coffee machine just the bleeps from the food being microwaved.
The prices here are cheap with main meals being around £5 mark, but sadly the quality is just as cheap, with fishy bacon with half inch of fat around the edges.
In all the years that I’ve come here l don’t think anything has ever changed except years ago there was internet access & computers for public use, but that was back in the day.
This place may be ok, but next time I think l will wait till another café or coffee shop is open before coming back.

We (Not the Royal We, me and others) had time to kill before our bus to Edinburgh was due so we (again, not royal) thought we’d grab some munch in AMPM.
My Mr ordered a plate of links, bacon, beans and potato scone with a hash brown for him, a plate of scrambled egg and toast for his mum, a plate of scrambled egg, hash brown, beans and potato scone for me and some bacon for his brother.
We had to wait for the toast that went with the scrambled egg, but instead of keeping the egg in the hotplate until the toast was ready they gave us the egg as it was and brought the toast a few minutes later, by this time the egg was gone as we were quite hungry. They also forgot to give us the bacon we ordered but as the total cost only came to £5.40 I reckon they didn’t charge us for it.
We paid cash because we didn’t see a card machine anywhere, or any signs that they accept card sales so that was bit poo too.
The service from the staff was pretty poor, no effort to smile and they forgot the bacon!!! That’s just not on… As mentioned in previous posts the staff were too busy chatting to each other to bother much about the customers.

Picture the scene.
I had just handed in my dissertation and was suitably elated, and decided to nip into the bus station before getting my bus to the hairdressers for some well deserved pampering. I had to make it a quicky, so I went to am: pm, a take away and sit in café combined. Choosing my panini from the fridge, I went up to the take out counter and asked the woman if there was any mayo in my chosen panini, as I absolutely hate the stuff. She told me no. In fact, ‘she telt me naw hen’, so I gave it to her to be toasted. It was an eye watering 3.95, so I was waiting in anticipation for it being the best damn panini I had ever eaten.
The server was a little on the Glaswegian side, which is absolutely fine, but there’s a fine line between the Glesgae banter and downright rudeness. She couldn’t have looked any more miserable or less glad to serve me if she tried. She was too busy talking to the other members of staff about Corrie or what she was doing that weekend that she basically completely ignored me. The other customers that came to the counter got the same treatment, and I could see from their faces that they were less than impressed. When one guy asked what kind of pie they had, the retort was ‘ehhh whit? Mince, obviously’.
I waited at the counter for about 15 minutes or more, and missed my bus in the process. The panini grill did not look as though it was working, and the 4 paninis they had stuffed into it were all taking ages to toast. Less than impressed, I was basically thrown my panini over the counter and I left for my bus. I was starving by this time, so got settled down in my seat, running late for my hair appointment, and took a bite of the panini. I have to say it did look good. I bit into it, looked down, and it was oozing with Mayo. You can guess the rage that I felt. It was most definitely a steam-​exiting-​ears moment!
Rude staff, long waiting times, extortionate prices and misinformation meant that this was a less than favourable lunchtime experience. I would never go back again!