To be agog at the price of dish and chips?

[HuzzahIndeed]

Don't have stuff from the chippy very often but went today. Standard take out place in the north.

We ordered:
2 × fish and chips
1 x pie and chips
1 x curry sauce
4 x tom sauce packets
3 x drinks

It cost £37! Is this really how much they cost now or were we ripped off?

We stopped getting Chinese takeaways some time ago once the dishes got close to £10.

We get fish and chips from one chippy only because they are nice.

The rest around me are rank.

This chippy has queues for their food and is open shorter hours than the rest.

It's also the only chippy were the kids have asked to save their chips if they can't finish them. (Though this doesn't happen anymore.)

A 'full size' Atlantic Cod can weigh up to 40 Kg, I'm not sure I could eat a whole one, well not with chips as well.🐡

Ordered a Chinese yesterday with Deliveroo...
1 Black bean pork
1 King prawn curry
1 fried rice

Total £39.65

I wish I could say it was lovely and it was worth it but the curry had the texture of water and the pork was just ok. Lesson learned.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles when referring to cod from the fish and chip shop I think it was pretty obvious what I meant by full sized
Unless chip shops near you regularly sell a 40kg cod?

Ha! This thread's been picked up by The Mirror...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/woman-winces-over-price-fish-28181231?int_source=nba

Slow clap to Mirror "journalist". Not for picking up the thread but for the hard eork they fid on the article. Amazing. Such work.
Y'all hiring?

Both of our good chippies would be around £35 for that, so not really expensive in terms of what others charge; generally it's expensive though, the cost of fish, potatoes and oil have shot up as has the price of electricity so it's not surprising, just no longer a cheap, hot meal.
We have another good one that would be a bit cheaper but they're a Chinese chippy so they're a bit cheaper as they tend to make more of their money off their Chinese dishes; it would only be about £5 cheaper than the above anyway!

Very lazy didn't even quote usernames so we could all change them.

And even go to their own local fish and chip shop to confirm the price.

Too right. Must have taken them all of 3 minutes to file that one.

People on here did more research than someone who gets paid for it😂

We had fish and chips last night and it's the cheapest take away. We have a fish each and one chips between us. And a pot of gravy. It came to about £13. No need to get extra sauces or drinks as we have those at home.

Ok I am in Ireland where being ripped off is part of our culture however last nights indian takeaway for two cost 56euro. Now 5 of that was delivery so 51euro for the following:
Bombay alloo x 1
Chicken vindaloo with rice
Chicken rogan josh with rice
One x plain naan, One x keema naan, one by garlic naan.
51 euro - I shit you not.

That sounds normal.

Revisiting this thread to justify having one large chips between a family of four which was called “mumsnet bingo” 🙄
Pretty beige and unappealing but this was £17 - one portion of chicken bites, one small battered sausage, two portions of cod bites and a shocking ONE large chips shared between four

3 meals and a drink for £12 a head seems a bargain

I bought 2 medium cod, they're huge, and 1 small portion of chips, they don't know when to stop piling them on, in early July, it was about £11.50. When granddaughter was staying again a few weeks ago I got the same order, it was £16!
I'd never buy drinks or sauces from the chip shop, most of use have those at home don't we?

Ours is
Cod £7.50
Pie £2.00
Chips £2.50 (normally a massive serving)
Curry small £1.00
Large £1.40
Can of pop £1.25

Fish and chips twice £20
Pie and chips £4.50
Curry £1.40
3 cans £3.75

They don't sauce sachets but another does at 50p each so say another £2 so would be around £32 .

Our issue is that sizes vary. Sometimes a portion of chips does 2 people easily and other times nowhere near enough.

They do a 'pensioners ' smaller fish, smaller chips and either small curry, peas etc for £7.50 but not big enough for our lot!

Over £6 of the £37 is VAT so that goes straight to HMRC.

Cost of food is soaring.
Cost of power is soaring.
Transport costs have risen.
Wages costs are going up, not just hourly rate but also employers NIC.

All other overheads are going up because their suppliers (security, software, subscriptions, professional, repairs, equipment, etc) are all putting up prices because their wages, power, raw materials, transport costs etc are going up.

It's the snowball effect where cost increases throughout the "chain" escalate the increases, a bit like a smaller scale of exponential growth.

As others have said lots of chippies are up for sale or closing down as even with price increases, they're still not profitable!

Not just chippies either.

In our village pie shop, a basic meat and potato pie which cost £2 a couple of years ago is now £3.50. A ham/salad sandwich on a roll is now £3.75 which was £2.25 a couple of years ago. A sausage roll which was 75p a couple of years ago is now £1.50. Every overhead from the raw material through to staffing, through to power has gone up over the past couple of years.

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Here (Devon)
1 x Lemon Chicken
1 x Duck in Plum
2 x Chicken Fried rice
2 x Chips
2 x 4 Mini spring rolls
£35 and some pence

I don't think takeaway fish and chips has ever been a cheap meal, if you compare it to the cost of making something at home.

Checking on-line at Sainsbury's:
2 x breaded haddock = £2.09
Bag of oven chips (1.5kg) = £1.09
tomato ketchup (Hubbard's) = 46p
2 litre Cola = 37p
hubbard's curry sauce = 55p
Total is £4.56.
Got to add it cost of cooking, but I doubt if it would come to more than £1.

Buying any kind of pre-prepared/pre-cooked food is a luxury where you're paying others to do the "dirty work" for you, i.e. not just the cooker power, but also the staffing, building cost, equipment cost, cooking oil, power of the whole building including lighting, security, bank charges, and of course VAT on "catering" whereas no VAT on the raw ingredients. It's really not "like for like" comparing just the cost of the raw ingredients to you.

I can’t tell you how much fish and chips costs because the last chippy never reopened after the pandemic….our town no longer has one. 😞 The owner said that the cost of oil and fish had almost doubled, and gas to run the friers was up massively in price.

We get our chips in a paper bag, perhaps it the dish that is pushing the cost up.
Could you perhaps go without the dish?

The price of fish and the oil the food is fried in has gone up ridiculously in the last 6 months. As have electricity/gas/oil prices for businesses…and National Insurance and wages.
I think what you paid is actually very reasonable. We’ve all enjoyed low priced take away food for a long time, all food and drink related businesses are fighting for survival.
Any form of hospitality is going to cost us all waaaay more in the next year…and still a huge number of these places will fail.