To think £3.50 for a slice of cake is a lot?

[Tobythecat]

Nice, new cafe in town have some lovely cakes - triple chocolate with 3 layers, but are charging 3.50 per slice. AIBU to think it's a bit too expensive?

[PinkHeart5914]

I am happy to pay that at the cafe in the village where I live, becuase the cakes are home made by them and bloody delicious!

I wouldn’t pay that for a slice of mass produced cake though

[Trills]

Sounds normal to me if it's a nice cafe and nice cake.

[NeedMoreSleepOrSugar]

Our local cafes cakes range from £4 - £4.95 a slice. They're homemade and lovely. Yes, I can make a whole cake for less, but when you can't be arsed, it's worth it as a treat!

[Trills]

Are you and this person opening a cafe and trying to get an idea of what prices are acceptable?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3166185-to-think-3-50-for-a-caramel-slice-is-extortionate-even-for-soft-play

[Rebeccaslicker]

That's oddly similar to the soft play caramel slices!

No, I wouldn't think that extortionate for a nice cafe that made homemade cakes and had to pay rent, wages, insurance, business rates, electricity, gas, water, telephone bills....

[Beamur]

Same as above, I'd pay that for a decent portion of nice cake.

[cate16]

You're not just paying for the ingredients though- staff wages, rent, business rates... etc.
£3.50 - £5.00 normal for me depending on shop.

[Idontevencareanymore]

For good cake, nice setting, I'd pay it.

[MistyMinge]

I think a decent slice of cake is about that these days. It would have to be homemade and a decent sized portion though. Otherwise I'd feel ripped off.

[romany4]

My ds has a weekend job in a cafe although it's a National Trust one. He says it's £6 for a coffee and a slice of cake there. And the cake is lovely

[Dancinfeet]

No I wouldn't pay that, but maybe that's just me. Assuming the accompanying hot drink is around £2.75 ish, it would cost in the region of £18.75 for coffee and cake for myself and two daughters? No thanks, that's nearer our budget for a quick lunch whilst out, than a drink and snack. I am sure that there are people out there willing to pay those prices, depends on your target market? If it's London, or even an upmarket tea room somewhere like York then fair enough - local cafe in a Northern market town? You're having a laugh.

[SaskaTchewan]

Why don't you try? If you don't have enough customers, just lower your prices

[BakedBeans47]

As long as it was a nice cake I wouldn’t mind for an occasional treat. There was a cafe opened up near us whose cakes were quite expensive but sadly they were shit and disgusting and it closed down.

[BeHappyMummy]

If prices were cheaper I'd probably end up buying more than is healthy.

So I actually think it's a good thing.

[Firesuit]

I don't think I've ever seen slices of cake sold at a price I'm willing to pay. (Except maybe at a school fete.)

I'd reckon I could buy a whole cake in a supermarket for £3.50. (Possibly wrongly, I don't buy cakes so don't actually know what they cost.)

[DGRossetti]

Is it eat in ?

You're also paying for the seat ....

[floriad]

Seems fine.

But I'm cheap. I prefer to buy a whole cake or make one myself :) !

[floriad]

*seems fine if:

you're sitting down and the cake is actually nice.

[PlanNumber]

£3.50 for a nice cake, served in a nice environment with good service seems to be the going rate, although an extravagant treat so I don't buy it often

Far too much for nasty cake on a plastic plate.

[Hillarious]

As a treat I'd do it, and I'd try to buy something I wouldn't normally knock up in my own kitchen.

[Sophisticatedsarcasm]

Seems reasonable to me. Actually fairly cheap.

[MotherofaSurvivor]

Trills This thread is nothing to do with me!

As stated in my thread I'm disabled so def couldn't run a cafe!

[PaintingOwls]

Well how much would you say was reasonable?

Sounds fine to me.

[expatinscotland]

Sounds entirely reasonable for a lovely homemade cake of that size.