Waitrose paper plates row goes viral: Read the best comments here

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The Observer's story about Waitrose Chichester customers' anger over paper plates and cups has appeared in a string of national newspaper websites as well as on the radio this morning.

As reported, the Chichester store has received scores of complaints over the change from china crockery to paper in its in-store café http://www.chichester.co.uk/news/local/complaints-over-change-to-paper-cups-and-plates-at-chichester-waitrose-1-7194265

The story was published on our website on Tuesday afternoon, and by the following day it had featured on a number of national newspaper websites, including the Telegraph and the Mail Online under the headline: “Is this the most middle class row ever?” - which has now received more than 700 comments.

It has also now been covered by The Metro, The Standard and The Mirror, and was even discussed this morning on BBC Sussex radio.

Waitrose has now said it has received ‘approximately’ 15 letters of complaint since Costa moved out and was changed to a Waitrose café last July.

The Observer has learned that many more have made verbal complaints to staff at the café, also voicing irritation from a change from sofas to wooden tables and chairs.

Amongst some of the more humorous 700 comments on the Mail Online story include this one: