How much would you expect to pay for this?

[Greenbeanmcgee]

If you're in a cafe and order chicken mayonnaise sandwiches but ask to add a little chopped red onion to the sandwich.

How much would you expect to pay for the addition of red onion?

Locally absolutely zero. In main cities perhaps 50p - £1 but it depends on the price of the sandwich in the first place.

£7.50 for a sandwich!!!!

Is expect them to add it for free.

Not Edinburgh but a posh bit of Glasgow(It isn't technically Glasgow but we'll call it that.)

I mean, if you're paying £7:50 for two slices of bread and a bit of chicken in Hellmann's, then £2.95 for some onion sounds about right.

@Greenbeanmcgee
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More money than sense. 🙄

I never get the point of the guesswork threads, why not just say in the OP that you were charged nearly 3 quid for a bit of onion and what do people make of it etc
we’re all so invested though!!!!

Yep! Honestly I’d be a bit annoyed to be charged at all, unless it is some kind of “build your own sandwich” cafe where you pay per filling.

How is a king prawn sandwich 2.95 when your chicken mayo was 7. 50?

How is a king prawn sandwich 2.95 when your chicken mayo was 7. 50?

It's a supplement, an additional fee on top of the standard sandwich price. It's not £2.95 for a King Prawn sandwich unfortunately.

75p for a large bag of red onions in Aldi

Was it in Bearsden? I live there so if it is I would like to know the name of the cafe to make sure I avoid it! 😂)

No not Bearsden, different county because I went to visit a friend but similarly posh. Waves from Milngavie

Now I'm craving crispy tofu because of your username.

You would be surprised what some people have in a sandwich!

The cheeky fuckers deserve to go out of business!

Sympathies to everyone else on here who's talked about their similarly disappointing/rip off meals.

It was a very nice sandwich but not £2.95 for a little bit of red onion nice.

£7.50 for a sandwich is already quite a lot, although I suppose it's reasonable if it's a sit down cafe and it's a decent sized sandwich with a good quality filling and nice bread that comes with at least a salad garnish and preferably also a few crisps.

But to charge for a bit of onion at all when presumably they've already got it ready prepared as it will be a standard filling for many sandwiches (eg with the steak) is cheeky, and £2.95 is ludicrous. Onions cost hardly anything. A kilo is under a pound, so a whole onion is about 20 p at most, a few bits of onion costs pennies.

Over the coming year or two, there's going to be a lot of cafes and similar businesses like takeaways etc closing because the amount they have to charge to make a profit has increased hugely at the same time as a lot of people will have to scale back on eating out because of reduced disposable income. So they're going to have to work extra hard to keep people's custom and find ways to stay as affordable as possible while still making a profit. This cafe has obviously not got that memo.

When I worked in Greggs, there was a postman who came in most days and bought 2 pasties in breadcakes. It wasn't even in Wigan, as could be deduced by use of the word breadcake.

Newton Mearns? (Sorry, I’m enjoying the guess now 😂)

That’s an expensive sandwich BEFORE the onion !

I would have said 50p tbh

What's breadcakes @BarbaraofSeville ?

Sheffield? 😁

@ODFODeary A roll, barm, cob etc. Two cornish pasties (flat kind, in the days you were still allowed to call them that without them needing to be baked in Cornwall and fit the recipe although fuck knows how Ginsters get away with it with the abominations they produce) each in a breadcake.

50-70p

Yes £3 (basically) is madness!