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

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NeverAlways · 02/08/2025 18:46

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?

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Spinachpastapicker · 05/08/2025 14:37

jxpop665 · 03/08/2025 20:50

YANBU

I'd pay £3-4, for £11 I'd expect a full meal in a cafe, rising to £15-18 for a premium meal in a more restaurant place. Garden centres are often overpriced, they are always poor quality so I would expect £8, but I'd probably always decline if more than £3.

Frankly the fact people are willing to pay it is the issue. It simply shows there is no cost of living crisis, as everyone should simply stop eating out in cafe's at that price.

I saw a sandwich in Pret the other day that was over £6, and decided I'd no longer go there again. Shame after all these years.

At £11 it basically saying it's the complete effort value paid to someone for /4 hour - thats should put it into perspective. I do wonder sometimes whether all minimum wage has done is to increase most prices in line with it.

Where on earth are you expecting to get it for £3-£4? 2006? ConfusedGrin

ZaZathecat · 05/08/2025 14:43

I was shocked to pay £10 for a jacket with tuna in a café recently. Would be more careful now and will not pay £10 again, let alone £11. It was a self-service place too

ZaZathecat · 05/08/2025 14:44

I also recently got charged £2.95 recently for an extra topping of spinach on a pizza recently. About 10 leaves there, so 30p a leaf!

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lilkitten · 06/08/2025 14:31

upinaballoon · 05/08/2025 14:04

I guess if you have beans + cheese you get fewer beans than if you have just beans, so the completed portions look about the same amount of something or other.
This thread has caused me to put large potatoes on my shopping list. I already have tuna and sweetcorn and mayo so I'm halfway there.

Edit to put in a missing full stop and to wonder if a little side salad of lettuce, avocado and walnuts - amall amounts - would be a nice change.

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I read this thread yesterday, and immediately went looking for a cafe to get a jacket potato - couldn't find any serving them, had to settle for a panini

rubicustellitall · 06/08/2025 17:59

£11.68 at Haven holiday park last week OP ...no drink just jacket potato with beans I kid you not .

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NeverAlways · 06/08/2025 18:01

Lots of people have come across an £11 baked potato it seems!

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Startthecar · 06/08/2025 18:16

Let's face it, no place anywhere would be selling jacket potatoes with beans for £11 if there were no customers willing to buy.

rubicustellitall · 06/08/2025 18:27

Startthecar · 06/08/2025 18:16

Let's face it, no place anywhere would be selling jacket potatoes with beans for £11 if there were no customers willing to buy.

I agree, in my case though I kind of expected high prices with it being a holiday camp with a captive audience so to speak but it was still shocking!

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 08/08/2025 16:43

They are just taking the piss.

Simple as that?

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