Would you pay £11 for a baked potato in a cafe?

[NeverAlways]

I went to a garden centre today and teen dc wanted a drink and a lunch/snack. There wasn’t much choice on the menu at the cafe apart from toasted sandwiches and cakes so dc chose a baked potato with beans which was £11. I nearly fell over. They don’t even particularly like baked potatoes. I said, No sorry I’m not paying that for a potato. I’ve got a four pack of Tesco baking potatoes at home that cost 79p. We left the cafe and went somewhere else where a proper meal was £13.

Anyway am I behind the times with prices or does that seem a lot to you?

@NeverAlways tell DC when she’s paying she can make her own choices

£8 for a tuna spud at my garden centre. Comes absolutely loaded with filling and salad.

Garden centre jacket potato’s are between £9-12 in my area but usually have better toppings and some sort of side salad and coleslaw. Cafes are slightly cheaper usually around £7.50-8.00.

Yes, but only if it was in a cafe on the top of Everest!

I had a baked potato for dinner tonight- 29p from Aldi and it was giant.

I might pay £11 for a potato with premium toppings like pulled pork or steak and it would need to make me full enough until my next meal. No way would I pay that for beans.

No because baked potatoes take a long time to cook so a cafe is almost certainly going to to dreadful things like reheat or even freeze, which means it will be horrible.

If eating out, I prefer to stick to food that can't be made the same or better at home with no effort, skill or specialist ingredients so I'd almost certainly never be in a position where I am paying for someone else to make a shit version of something I can make better at home.

In this situation my number 1 choice is something from a fish and chip shop because we don't have a fat fryer, which costs quite a lot to fill and run, and despite being fried, is reasonably healthy as not full of crap that you get in other commercially prepared food.

Just checked and our local cafe is £8.95 and we’re in a fairly expensive area. So £11 does seem a lot. I don’t think m I’d pay £11 that said we’re on holiday atm and I paid £17.50 for a salad at lunch! Prices are just mad now

Yes! I don't like getting jacket potatoes when we're out but £11 seems expensive however £6-7 seems a bit cheap in a restaurant even if a garden centre

It is expensive but yes we have paid £12 in our local ‘posh’ cafe.

No way especially as it’s probably microwaved.

I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t notice the price. But it seems reasonable to me.

That’s daylight robbery. I’d have walked out too.

Nope. In fact I saw a menu recently where it was £10 for a sandwich or baked potato. I won't be going there.

Rip of Britain innit. Small cake and coffee over £8 pp the other day.

Sounds fairly steep, but garden centre cafes often are IME. It wouldn’t occur to me to get up and leave once I’d actually sat down/committed to eating there though. I just might think twice about going again.

I'd have walked out too OP.
Places like that, that aren't real eating places, cash in because of the convenience they're offering customers who feel like noshing on some easy food, yeah, easy for those who make it, but not do easy on the wallet.
You always pay more for convenience .

Just looked at a couple close to me and they are £10 and £11…

Fuck no!

No I would not

I agree
I am in the South East (London) and they are sold for around £8.00, including 2 fillings and with a bit of side salad, in my local cafe.

That's a lot. For £11 I'd expect a really fancy lovely filling, accompanied by a decent side salad....not baked beans!

I'd pay more for more expensive fillings like tuna and if there was salad and coleslaw but for plain spud and beans which is what the OP was faced with, no. I know most of the cost is for staffing, utilities etc but I'd rather pay £12 for say sourdough with avocado and all the other fancy bits which is fairly typical in garden centres round us than for a (probably) microwaved spud and beans.

Jacket potato is my go to lunch if out but no way would l pay that! £8 max.

Garden centres are always pricey

8.25 at my local dobbies. They aren’t very nice ( maybe baked then microwaved)I like loads of butter and salt Nd they gave me one pat of butter. Gutted.