The Baker's Oven

Baker's Oven are a chain of High Street Bakery Shops which you may or may not be familiar with. They are particularly prominent in the South of England, East Anglia, and the Midlands, but having said that they have been present in Sheffield where I live for many years. A BIT OF BACKGROUND Today Bakers Oven are a part of Greggs PLC who acquired the company in 1994 as a part of their extensive expansion plans and in particular as a way of penetrating new Geographical regions of the UK. Bakers Oven itself was originally owned and operated by Allied Bakeries although this was also an amalgamation ... more

Wanted to buy a cheese sandwich. None of the staff knew if the cheese was vegetarian or not. Easy to find out. Non veggie cheese has animal rennet in it. For those that do not know, Vegetarian cheeses ARE NOT rare or only sold in specialist places. For example, cathedral city is vegetarian, it is widely avaliable. Anyway, they didnt know, the manager then went on to tell me how no cheese is never vegetarian because its made with animal products and that I cant be a vegetarian really. :| what??? I politely told him that was vegan and that i've been vegetarian for 5yrs and that i'm 100% sure ... more