Big similarites with the "On the Buses" episode, with the "workers" trying to run the canteen themselves and in the end being forced to order take-away food to be able to serve the meals. Secondly, Mohammad Shamsi appears in both episodes and in this one, he says it's the best meal he's had since he was at Wolverhampton - referring to when he was a bus driver in "On the Buses" and offering to have his wife do the cooking in the canteen there in that episode.