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Beans on toast in a cafe, how much is reasonable to pay?
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In terms of a mark up I would charge more to compensate me for the fact that these cheap beans on toast eaters are depriving me of profits from / seating capacity that could be allocated to premium gut busting fry-up customers spending £8.
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Sounds like Selco, the one near my dad did a breakfast for that sort of money.
Glad it's not just me, detested beans since I was a kid so as a substitute, my mum would give me spaghetti on toast. Oddly enough 2 weeks ago I ordered some tinned spaghetti with my weekly tescos and had it on toast for the first time in many years.
I'm sure all the people eating in the M&S cafe would be mortified to be mocked by someone of your standing... Your threads on here suggest you have issues, maybe work on those before mocking anyone?
Oh, and another tea please, darling
No way I'd be getting beans on toast in a cafe. The ingredients probably cost them ~10p and it takes about 20 seconds of actual work to make. Obviously there's significant mark up on any food you buy in a restaurant but I at least want there to be some effort involved to justify the cost. I'm not a huge fan of beans on toast anyway (although I do like both beans and toast), but that's academic.
Canned spaghetti is one of the most minging things in existence
Canned spaghetti is one of the most minging things in existence
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agree canned spag is minging.
cant beat a bit of bacon grill though.
cant beat a bit of bacon grill though.
Bacon grill is amazing once you get it out the sodding can
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gonna have to make beans on toast now
I'd say about £2 is fair, seeing as ingredients cost about 50p.
This is why I never eat out, everywhere is a ripoff. That eat-out-to-help-out thing was good as stuff was correctly priced for once.
I'd say about £2 is fair, seeing as ingredients cost about 50p.
This is why I never eat out, everywhere is a ripoff. That eat-out-to-help-out thing was good as stuff was correctly priced for once.
I would say that, given that they probably buy the bread and beans in bulk, and make a boatload of beans and water them down, the cost per serving would be about half of that. I would imagine the ingredients cost about 20p if you divided them up. Or even less.
Agree that £2 is very reasonable. Anything above £3 is ridiculous.
You see, this is the kind of value that we're talking about. That's the kind of thing we should be seeing, not £3.50 or thereabouts for a quarter of the quantity.
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I had to google what bacon grill was. You guys are disgusting
its awesome grilled has to be made by plumrose though.
WTF?
For me, on the scarcity of sleep I've had for the last few nights, a Full English with chips sounds epic.
Needs black pudding though.
Quality is questionable.. But the eggs were certainly from a chicken. Bacon probably from a pig. Sausages may or may not have been "animal" based. Mushrooms 50/50 could have been fried slugs. Chips potatoe and got more than one... Just.
That's the point, the quality is often questionable in these places.
Hence why they will be buying the cheapest ingredients. One will not be served Heinz or Branston beans but Aldi "Essentials" or "Stockwell" from Tescos with added vegetable oil. Buying in Heinz is a waste of money, people will just buy whatever they serve and cover it in salt, ketchup and brown sauce. Greasy spoons are 'functional' places.
