(OT) Coffee after 11pm at petrol stations?

The message from "Adam Aglionby" contains these words:

I always have a couple of bottles of Tescos Red Bull equivalent in the car for long journeys. Don't often need 'em but it's cheaper than service stations.

Licence? Sounds like bollocks to me. I can get coffee at 3am at Dreghorn, Fordel, Harthill, Newtongrange, Jedburgh... no problem at all.

Richard

All licensed?

Along similar lines I saw a sign in a Subway branch in Leeds stating that they could not sell *hot* food after 11pm. Presumably that means they can still serve cold. Maybe all this is bolted on to recent law changes in the alcohol licencing laws, but why I can't fathom.

Whale oil, beef hooked....

Seems the licensing laws regulate the sale of hot food or drink between 11 pm and 5 am... for some odd reason!

The provision of hot coffee does not require authorisation under the act if

"Hot drink distributed by means of a vending machine where the payment for the hot drink is inserted into the machine by a member of the public, and the hot drink is supplied directly by the machine to the member of the public" and "Hot food or hot drink supplied on a vehicle, which is not permanently or temporarily parked at the time."

the customer puts in coins is OK.

All those services are in Scotland. The ones in the original post are all in england.

I'm odd, the only time I tried that stuff I fell asleep.

The message from Johannes contains these words:

You can almost guarantee that on the ground someone will misunderstand the rules and take "Can't sell coffee" as "Can't allow the machine to sell coffee".

On another subject. I visit a particular petrol station once a week, they take pin&chip which I use. But then I noticed that they have at least 6 CCTV cameras in the ceiling; the type in a dome where you can't see which direction it is pointing. One of the cameras are straight above the counter with the pin&chip machine. Once a while, they claim that the pin&chip isn't working and swipe the card instead. Doesn't give much confidence...

When will they abandon the swipe? As things are going at the moment, probably never.

The message from "Malc" contains these words:

Did you have the one with sugar in?

Computer says no.

Lol

The message from Johannes contains these words:

Cover what you're doing, like this...

And if you read the original post, you'll see the OP CROSSED into Scotland, and couldn't get coffee...

Richard

Does that to me too. It's a sugar thing, or something.

Richard

All the cases I offered, you pay the cashier though. You do still get the coffee from the machine yourself - you buy a cup and fill it.

Richard

February. No more signatures.

Richard

Remains to be seen. Wasn't it January 2005?

But cards will still have magnetic strip. This is the problem. If someone can get hold of PIN, then he can use a copy of the card at a cashpoint. These machines don't use the chip.