Hi Judith,
I know this was a long time ago, but I thought I should reply for the benefit of trustpilot. I am sorry you were so unhappy with your service. The 5 of you came in and had each had samples of quite a lot of cheeses and as a group bought a few small pieces as you went along. I politely pointed out that I couldn't keep giving you tasters for everything when you'd been there for a little while. This was obviously because with all five of you trying many cheeses, it's a lot of cost. I could see that you took great affront to my polite request and left. It may be that you took my extreme awkwardness at saying this as 'turning on you', but I certainly didn't mean to be abrupt if that's how it came across.
Now we give tasters out ALL the time, ask any of the thousands of customers through our doors, and I very, very rarely ever say this to any customers (actually I think a few times ever in the 15 years that I have had this business).
The fact that I didn't change my view when you came back in to tell me off that this 'cheese tasting' was a part of your friends birthday that you had organised and I'd ruined the whole day obviously didn't sit very well. I still stick by what I said (politely), we're happy to give tasters, but we are a business and can't just give away more cheese than we sell. You'd all tried plenty of cheeses and normally people realise when enough is enough and really it was a bit unfair to expect us to keep going..