The Wheatsheaf Inn, Laney Green, Cannock

£130 for three people was the total bill for food AND drinks all ordered from a menu with the prices clearly displayed. Nobody was forced to order anything, so calling the bill “extortionate” after knowingly ordering at those prices is rather ridiculous.Whether the restaurant happened to be quiet at the time of your visit is completely irrelevant. Restaurants have busy periods and quiet periods, just like every other hospitality business.Your reference to “druggy bags” is an extremely serious allegation. If you are claiming that drugs were present on our premises, then provide evidence rather than throwing reckless insinuations into a public review.As for the dramatic edit claiming that a family member was “throwing up from the food” becoming sick after eating somewhere does not magically prove that the restaurant caused it. Food poisoning requires proper investigation, not a conclusion reached from the journey home. If you genuinely believe our food caused an illness, provide us with the date, time, receipt, dishes consumed and details of the alleged illness so that it can be formally investigated.Interestingly, despite describing the premises, toilets and food in such extreme terms, none of these supposedly serious concerns appear to have prevented you from ordering, eating, drinking and paying for your meal.We welcome genuine criticism and will investigate legitimate complaints. What we will not accept is speculation being presented publicly as fact simply because somebody decided afterwards that they didn’t like the price or that it ran and owned by Indian People.

Firstly, every single price you have quoted was clearly displayed before you ordered. You voluntarily ordered your meals and drinks knowing exactly what they cost. Deciding afterwards that you don’t like the prices does not make them dishonest or “extortionate”.You also appear extremely concerned with how many other customers were present. Whether there were two customers or twenty customers in the building at that particular moment has absolutely nothing to do with the quality or safety of the food you were served.As for your food being “really spicy” you visited an Indian restaurant and ordered from a menu containing dishes with different spice levels. If something was too spicy for your personal taste, you could simply have told a member of staff and given us the opportunity to resolve it. Personal tolerance to spice is not a food-quality issue.The most serious part of your review is your suggestion that our food caused vomiting and diarrhoea. Feeling unwell after eating somewhere does NOT establish that the last meal consumed was responsible. Foodborne illness can have numerous causes and different incubation periods. If you genuinely believe our food caused illness, we would expect you to report the details properly so they can be investigated rather than diagnose the cause yourself in a Google review.You are also completely entitled to contact Environmental Health. In fact, if you genuinely believe there is a food-safety issue, we would encourage you to do so. We have nothing to hide and would cooperate fully with any legitimate inspection.As for the service charge, this was shown on your bill and could have been queried with staff at the time however you agreed to pay it. It’s particularly disappointing that you describe this as “one of my old haunts” yet choose to publicly declare that the business has “gone down the pan” based on one visit, while making serious claims about illness without establishing what actually caused it.Criticise our prices. Criticise the atmosphere. Tell people the curry was too spicy for you. Those are your opinions and you’re entitled to them.But implying that an Indian ran business made you and your husband ill is a serious allegation and quite frankly racist, and serious allegations require more than “we ate there and later felt sick.”