The price of a Costa Coffee mince pie (and other eyebrow raising prices) !

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Because I am fat and don't have a sweet tooth I never have anything to eat in a coffee shop so perhaps I'm very behind the times - but aibu to be shocked that they wanted £2.20 for a mince pie in Costa yesterday? They were flogging them at the till. I'm afraid I snorted at the idea I might want to pay that for 1 mince pie (and yes I know I'm sounding like my mother).

Any prices/charges that have made you do a double-take recently?

Salad in our canteen at work - £5.25

Cake in coffee shops! I really object to paying £3+ for cake that I can make better at home... So I usually don't bother, but DH does. We were in a cafe the other day and he had a bit of lemon drizzle for £3.50... There was a whole lemon drizzle cake in the cake tin at home!

€80 for 5 slivers, sorry, slices of pizza (yes slices, not whole ones like we though we were getting) and 6 sort drinks at Euro Disney

6 soft drinks, not sort drinks!!

£5 for a 175ml bottle of white wine on South West trains!

Unfortunately hospital parking has to charge to cover the costs of it. Our trust doesn’t contract it out, all the money goes to the hospital. Staff get free parking in a separate area, but if that’s full we have to pay. (And get sent a penalty notice if we don’t as my colleague discovered!). Ours is a relatively short walk from a lot of offices/businesses so if it was free or v cheap it would be full before 9.00!

The man in front of me yesterday bought a cappuccino, and americano and 2 packets of wafted biscuit things. It cost him over £7 - I was just stood a bit like bc I o my get take out tea for a quid

I realised a few years ago that I had programmed my dc never to expect a dessert in a restaurant. Took the older 2, now adults out for dinner and told them to choose pudding. They fell about saying it was the first time I had ever handed them a dessert menu. A bit of an exaggeration but I told them to do the maths. Taking a family out to eat.expect to pay up to a tenner for a main. Refuse to pay 4 to 6 quid for a brownie and a scoop of ice cream.because that is 35 quid.

Oh, I forgot about shopkins squashems and feckin lol dols.

We had lunch out in a Centreparcs restaurant once and I was shocked at the price of it.

The actual cost of the food/beverage ingredients only makes up a small percentage of the cost of delivering that item to you. Rent, staff rates, insurance.. the list goes on.

Our local pub (unfashionable suburban London) does food.

A Sunday lunch for a family of four cost us £120 . That's for four roast dinners, soft drinks and a single beer for my oh and desserts for kids only.

We haven't been back. I can do a roast chicken dinner for all of us at home for less than £10.

Unsurprisingly, every time we walk past the pub at lunchtime it's very quiet.

I don’t get the price of cafe jacket potatoes. £5 to £7 just for a potato with some baked beans on top.

YANBU i actually laughed when i bought one for my son as a treat but it was good i have to say. He devoured it.

I arrived at my work Christmas Dinner last year at the same time as a colleague who kindly offered to buy me a drink. I nearly keeled over when my glass of red wine cost him £8.75. I couldn't afford to return the favour later in the night, but my conscience was saved somewhat when I reminded myself that he earns approximately ten times what I do...

Salved...

onthenaughtystepI'm reading this at the swimming pool in Norwich. Was just thinking of going to that Costa afterwards DS's swimming lesson! Don't they do a deal for a drink crisps and a sandwich for £5?

I also never buy tea when out.

How some places can charge £2.50 upwards for a cheap tea bag and some hot water is beyond me!!!

The cost of food in the cafateria at my DS secondary school!

If you want a 50p mince pie, buy it at greggs. You are actually paying for the time you spend sitting in the warm, comfortable city centre venue as much as for anything you consume there.

And a whopping 20% VAT on top of all that too!

Food in garden centres - jacket potato, cheese and beans for about £8. The prices are unreal. Captive audience I guess.

I don't drink tea and coffee, and am thankful for that because the prices seem outrageous!

A friend paid £2.50 in Chiquito for hot water and mint leaves. They said it wasn't on the menu but charged that. Seems steep for mint leaves. I know the breakdown of the cost is more for staff, lighting, bills etc though. There was a good facebook or twitter post about this recently.

It would be interesting to know how much tea and coffee costs per year.

I agree WH Smith seems very expensive, although the items I've bought from there seem good quality and have lasted. I don't mind so much if it's something I will use and it will last, but with food when it's five times the price of elsewhere I generally won't buy it.

Upper crust baguettes
Millie’s cookies

Magazines. Don't know how they stay in business.

Why are large teas charged at so much more? They don’t put another tea bag in (so the ratio is all off).

Wasn’t there a newspaper article recently where it cost s Starbucks 8p to make the coffee? The rest is rent, staff, adverts etc.