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How much would you expect to pay for this?

248 replies

Greenbeanmcgee · 03/06/2023 16:54

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?

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thenightsky · 03/06/2023 20:23

So your sandwich ended up costing more than £10? Fucking hell. What world is it where a bit of filling in 2 slices of bread costs over ten fucking pounds!

Room102 · 03/06/2023 20:23

BarbaraofSeville · 03/06/2023 20:20

@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.

Based on your photo it seems people in Yorkshire in particular like maki by up lots of random words for bread!

Room102 · 03/06/2023 20:25

OP yes - £3 for a few slices of onion is insane. Adding it to a large pizza as an extra topping (so much more of it) would generally be half that cost so it is ridiculous.

WomanOfSteel · 03/06/2023 20:26

@BarbaraofSeville I have a different one to that. 😂

How much would you expect to pay for this?
ODFODeary · 03/06/2023 20:28

Ah a bap ! Grin Thank you @BarbaraofSeville
Love that we have so many regional names for one thing
TBF a CP filling (without the pastry) would be lush

Robinni · 03/06/2023 20:28

80p

Jl2014 · 03/06/2023 20:33
SistersNotCisters · 03/06/2023 20:37

Bloody hell I pay £2.70 for my ham salad sandwich in my local nice cafe and about £4.50 in the "very naice" cafe that's in the local art gallery!!! Extras are maybe 40p at the most!

Pluvia · 03/06/2023 20:39

I take it this was in Shoreditch or Hackney or Chelsea — or possibly the Hay Festival, where sandwiches were priced at £8-£10+ quid.

BarrelOfOtters · 03/06/2023 20:51

Milngavie is vain posh though.

EmotionalSupportWyrm · 03/06/2023 20:52

BarbaraofSeville · 03/06/2023 20:20

@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.

no no no no - a teacake in West Yorks has sultanas in it, it's sweet and is served toasted with lashings of good butter. A bread cake is what you have as a savoury sandwich. (Unless you are my weird sibling who liked savoury fillings in a teacake 🤢)

notacooldad · 03/06/2023 21:00

50-60p

Pubgardener · 03/06/2023 21:02

Red Onion is the devils vegetable. I’d fine you £50.

knittingaddict · 03/06/2023 21:10

50p.

LovelyLooby · 03/06/2023 21:12

I’m wondering if it was Newton Mearns too. I ordered a baked potato and cheese and the cheese came in the tiniest ramekin. It was really loosely grated too so mostly just air. I had to ask 4 times for more and even then I still didn’t have anywhere near a standard portion of cheese. Got to the till and they charged me almost £3 for each additional ramekin. I was so shocked I just paid and left. Over £20 for a baked potato and cheese!

Whiskeypowers · 03/06/2023 21:17

LuciaLuciaLucia · 03/06/2023 19:12

Where was that?

Venice?

😂

littlemousebigcheese · 03/06/2023 21:35

@scrantonelectriccity yes! It's delicious - try it! Really good ham and tuna mayo

Misty84 · 03/06/2023 21:48

50p-£1. £2.95 is INSANE!

Palmasailor · 03/06/2023 21:49

BarbaraofSeville · 03/06/2023 20:08

£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.

Well there’s 20% vat goes straight down the bog before you start. Then they have to pay salary, holiday pay, and a pension for all staff. Then utility then taxes, then probably waste disposal. Yeah.. it adds up, but they’ve got their balancing wrong. The main item should be more and the additional bits less.

but I’ve got a lot of sympathy for them trying to hold it together in the current shit show.

Badbudgeter · 03/06/2023 22:09

thenightsky · 03/06/2023 20:23

So your sandwich ended up costing more than £10? Fucking hell. What world is it where a bit of filling in 2 slices of bread costs over ten fucking pounds!

I got served an “open sandwich” in a pub once. One sliced of bread, blt, a handful of cheap nachos and a spoonful of basic coleslaw £10. I asked for a second slice of bread. They charged £4 and I got two slices with butter. Luckily We were mainly having a liquid lunch so it seemed funny.

uncomfortablydumb53 · 03/06/2023 22:24

Good for you for calling them out
No wonder they encourage you to order extras! They're shooting themselves in the foot really as people won't go back. If no charge then they would

mellicauli · 03/06/2023 22:45

The bespoke sandwich options are a mechanism to extract max cash from people who aren’t price sensitive (but like all those dreadful Starbucks drinks at a fiver). If you are price sensitive, you should always ask the price.

thenightsky · 03/06/2023 22:48

It makes my lovely mixed leaf salad with hot mackerel fillet plus hot drink for £9 in my poshest local cafe a really good deal.

bladebladebla1 · 04/06/2023 07:24

It was obviously a mistake

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Greenbeanmcgee · 04/06/2023 11:13

It was obviously a mistake

It wasn't a mistake. The price was correct according to the manager.

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