How much do you pay for a portion of chips

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I just went to a chip shop, and was charged £3.95 for a large portion of chips!

I can't get separate chips at the shop in town as I need gluten free. The only option is large fish and chips for £10.99. I share with my GF DS as it's huge (and we're not tiny eaters).

And it's not just potatoes that have gone up, so has cooking oil and especially the cost of commercial electricity.

Takeaways have seen bills rise from under £10k to over £50k because there's no price cap on business electricity, and this alone, without the increase in cost of the ingredients could well have totally wiped out the profit, aka the owner's income without significant price increases.

@TheThingIsYeah I remember my mum thinking it was absolutely outrageous when the chip shop put the price of a bag of chips up to 65p! This would be 90s. Chips from the shop were a very rare treat then. Getting to be now the price of them.

You need staff to prepare, cook and serve them - staff need paying and wages have gone up.

You need premises to cook and serve them in - rents have gone up, as have utilities, overheads etc.

You need oil to cook them in and power to heat the oil - both have gone up massively.

Out of the £3.60 charged by our local chip shop, 60p of that goes to HMRC as VAT, leaving just £3.00 to cover wages, raw materials, supplies, overheads, rent, equipment, utilities, bank charges, waste disposal, etc.

£3.20 for a regular bag

East Midlands. £1.30 regular. £1.70 large which is enough to easily feed 2 adults

We've just come back from the seaside and it was £3.80 for chips. I noticed the fish & chips was £7.50!!

At home one portion would be similar price but would feed us all. The ones there, we needed one each as it certainly wasn't a "large" portion!