2 soups and 2 teas . How much ?

[WinterBerry40]

I'm not going to do the guess how much question , and I know if we were skint we could have made sandwiches to eat in the car etc , but was out yesterday doing the last of shopping and all cafes were rammed but found a place that was perhaps not at greasy spoon level but certainly not restaurant , maybe more coffee shop. Soup was £8.75 and tea ( teapot for 2 ) was £3.80 each . So £25.10.
Not a big city , ok a tourist area ( Cumbria ) but not national park just on outskirts of normal working town .
Would that be expensive for your area . Soup was tomato & Basil .

Did no one else read '2 soups' and immediately correct it to '1 soup aaanndd another soup' in their head?

God things really are getting ridiculous over in the uk!! I’m in Ireland which is supposedly more expensive and I just looked at the menu from the place I went for lunch yesterday
soup with homemade Guinness soda bread is €7 and tea was €2.20.

Sounds about right for Cumbria. Whenever we visit I find it on a par with Glasgow. You'd probably find cheaper places in both if you know where to go though.

Whoa, how much??!!!

That’s fairly standard where we are. I don’t think it’s expensive for lunch and a drink to eat in.

Yes, I was about to post and then saw you had already done it!

A classic.😂

I’d boycott that establishment!

So soup and a cuppa or two for £12.55 each

bargain

Sounds ok but I’m still reeling from £10.55 for a plain jacket potato on the IoW

I think the price shock is about the location. We have been in the NW then NE for three years, and in that time, eating out prices have caught up with the South. So much so, we felt we were getting good value in London last December.

I just looked up my local pub and they were charging £8 for soup 10 months ago, so that will be £9 by now.

We wolfed down a two course chinese with no drinks before going shopping last weekend and it was £58.

People are so used to high prices that they think nothing of paying £10 for a jacket potato etc. More fool them to pay it!

I don’t think that is good value. Home-made soup isn’t expensive or difficult to make. If you weren’t paying for ambiance then I think you were ripped off!

I had a look at my local tapas menu today.

Picked 8 items, compared prices with 2021 (google reviews often have photos of old menus). Inflation 2021 til now = 25%. Their average prices rises, 60%. On two of the pricier dishes, 79 and 93% increases. There wasn't a single dish in double digits in 2021, now there are 9 out of 42 items over £10.

No wonder we feel like we're getting a raw deal if places are charging 35% above inflationary price rises.

I love tapas but am so over them because my favorites are so quick and easy to recreate at home.

I'm sick of paying £10-15 for a small handful of prawns that I can make myself in a few minutes when I cba spending time cooking (and yes I do know the point of a restaurant but I don't really count making gambas a pil pil as "cooking'.

They ended up losing out. We were going to order a bunch of tapas on Christmas Eve for Xmas day (because our home cooking facilities are infuriating - undercook or burn are the choices).

We ended up buying a load of stuff from M&S that was either cold, or just needed reheating.

If the prices weren't so unpalatable, the tapas would have had our money instead.

Shrug. It's a shame. I'm sure they're not raking in high profits and the price rises are for legitimate reasons - it just saddens me that we had to make that decision.

The soup seems OK at £8.75. It's not cheap but if it was homemade from top quality ingredients then it's not bad. I think a small, factory-made roll at that price is cheeky.

But £7.60 for a pot of tea? That's absolutely fucking mental. I wouldn't have ordered it on principle.

But surely it's just akin to tinned soup? And Asda has economies of scale and obviously that's increased by them being an actual supermarket.

The soup deal could be a loss leader as they know you'll do a substantial shop there also.

It's still cool to have it that cheap but not comparable to a small independent cafe in a tourist town.

That pot is for two people. How much do you think it should cost?

I would say that’s right. But I am London based. Eating out is so expensive now

Yes I realise it was for 2, because that was in the OP. How much do I think it should cost? Not £7.60.

I would have thought a tenner up to fifteen was about right. 3 quid ish for each soup and definitely not more than 2 for the tea but I find the whole eating out thing a rip off which I know isn't their fault because of the cost of utilities, wages etc.

I would have said around£22 at my favourite cafe here in Bath

I would find that VERY good value, a soup, toastie and coffee for less than £13. But maybe I'm just used to SE prices

The ones that have made themselves look insta friendly with a fake flowers wall, big mirrors and a couple of happy clappy slogans are the worst for jacking up their prices down here. I just want a nice warm little cafe and good food for reasonable prices

Would have been more than that in London. Prices depend on area. 🤷‍♀️