Price of a fry up

[AuntiePhoenixClaw]

DH and I went out for breakfast yesterday, haven’t done this for a long time. We went to a really nice independent place that’s open as a licensed restaurant in the evening and had a fry up , I had small and he had large plus a latte each that had a finger of shortbread on the side.

1 bacon and sausage plus beans, tomatoes, 1 egg, black pudding, mushrooms and a slice of granary toast. His had an additional sausage and slice of bacon.

It was 19.95

We are in East Midlands and the last time we went out for a fry up was about two years ago, the cafe we used to go to shut down unfortunately during lockdown, it was around £12 then and was a nice but very basic cafe.

£20 for 2 breakfasts & 2 drinks sounds about right where I am, in a nice place not a bargain greasy spoon.

under 20 quid for you both or just for his?

if the former I don’t think that’s too bad!

I think £20 for a cooked breakfast for two adults, including nice coffee is about right, to be honest.

It's about what we pay anyway - the cooked breakfasts are around £8 each, plus £2-3 for a latte or cappuccino and that's easily £25.

If somewhere was charging £12 for that I wouldn't expect it to be very nice 😬

Each or for both?

It's about what I would expect to pay these days.

That's about what I'd expect to pay and I'd be happy to do or even more if it was very nice.

£20 for everything? 2 breakfasts, two coffees?

A local garden centre here does 2 breakfasts for £18 which is great value because there's plenty on the plate but I'd expect to pay more in most places.

Now I'm really craving a breakfast.

So you comparing prices for two different orders from two different places, two years apart?

I’m up North and would expect to pay up to £12 a head

Everything is more expensive. That sounds reasonable for a breakfast for two.

I know it's not a popular opinion but you can't beat a Spoon's breakfast.

each or both?
here, breakfast at somewhere where there take coffee too seriously and the baristas have interesting tattoos and rolled up trousers is £10-12.50 each. Not sure it would be much cheaper at a caff TBH.

My local cafe charges £5 a head for a full English and a hot drink or juice. In the SE. Tbh, I think it's because we turn up regularly and there's 10 of us!

I suspect one of the reasons the other cafe closed down is their low prices!

£6 per person for a full English breakfast plus coffee - how are they making a profit on that? 😬

Whether it’s good value or not for depends on the sausage , if I’m paying £10 for a breakfast I expect a quality banger

Before I read how much it was in your post I answered the question posed in the title with 'about a tenner a head'. So £19.95 for two sounds about right.

I grew up in south London and a fry up in a caff was about £6 twenty years ago.

How are they making money on that?

There's a reason the cheap place closed down.

You cannot expect to eat decent food out at the price you pay for the uncooked ingredients in the supermarket. I'd be suspicious of the quality of a very cheap cooked breakfast or think that some elements were knocked off in some way.

I'm in East mids and I'd say £20 for two is good value .

The local greasy spoon, no frills, near me is £7 for a small fry up (one egg, one bacon, one sausage and a slice of toast( and anywhere up to £15 for the bigger portions , plus drinks.

I'm in a Wetherspoons pub right now and paid £8 for a breakfast and a Pepsi, so £16 for two.

£20 for two anywhere else is a steal.

That sounds very reasonable honestly.

Sounds pretty good value to me.

Our local independent cafe that would be @£25 - Midlands

I'm in the SE, I'd expect to pay £10ish for a regular cooked breakfast, £12ish for a large cooked breakfast and then approx £3 each for the lattes.

So I'd have thought the bill would be around £28 for what you had.

So if the £19.95 is the total bill for 2 breakfasts and 2 drinks, I think that's a bargain. If the £19.95 is for one breakfast, I think it's a bit steep.

Is this serious? That's absolutely reasonable.

We went to a really nice independent place

• yeah, and that costs.

Our local cafe does a build your own breakfast. Each portion is price per portion. So if you want bacon, sausages, scrambled egg, beans and two slices of granary toast that's what you pay for. For example I don't think tomato's belong on a fry up so I don't have to ask for it to be omitted. It also gives some control over how much you want to pay. It's the way forward in my opinion and I wonder why other cafes don't do the same.