(02 Oct 2020, 10:14 pm)Adrian wrote I can't remember Happy Eater, but looking at their Wikipedia page, it was acquired by Little Chef in 1986.
Makes sense.
I remember we went on a trip down south one year and there were loads of the Happy Eaters all the way down the A1.
A year or two later, we went down and there were none. But there were Little Chefs.
Around the same sort of period, the plastic trees (or very similar ones) from the play areas in the Happy Eaters appeared in pub beer gardens across the country. The Plough at Pelton haven't long got rid of theirs.