The Science Centre itself is great! My grievance i...

The Science Centre itself is great! My grievance is with The Purple Pear Restaurant. We ate lunch there around 1pm and it was difficult to find a table as the majority of them were horribly dirty! Staff did not appear to have the time to clean them efficiently. I also found the restaurants system for delivering food to tables to be horribly flawed and a waste of time. First it took a bit for staff to explain the process - that you go sit down and a staff member will come around shouting your order number. Then to see this in action - I felt bad for staff having to walk all around the space shouting numbers and waiting for someone to respond. This system would be so much simpler if you just gave customers a table number to bring back to their table and the staff simply have to look for the number. Pretty annoying for everyone to have to hear numbers being shouted over and over again.
Also I have to add that I was shocked to learn that the restaurant only had TWO highchairs! Come on! You should have 20 highchairs for how many families come through with small children! It made it very difficult to enjoy our meal when we had to have our toddler sit on our lap to eat.

With some minor changes I could see this being a nice place to eat.