Cost of Living - Shrinkflation is speeding up at an alarming rate

jaybee said:
Went to Bills the other day for breakfast for 2.

Orange Juice = £3.95
Orange Juice = £3.95
Bills Big Brunch = £13.95
Bill's Big Brunch = £13.95
Sub Total = £35.80
Service charge = £4.48
TOTAL = £40.28

The Orange Juices came 3/4 filled with a load of ice and the brunches were luke warm. Single sausage, tiny amount of bacon.

I'd feel less violated being physically mugged.
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Wtf?

I'd be putting a 1 star review on Google maps.

Service charge on an English breakfast as well.
 
jaybee said:
Went to Bills the other day for breakfast for 2.

Orange Juice = £3.95
Orange Juice = £3.95
Bills Big Brunch = £13.95
Bill's Big Brunch = £13.95
Sub Total = £35.80
Service charge = £4.48
TOTAL = £40.28

The Orange Juices came 3/4 filled with a load of ice and the brunches were luke warm. Single sausage, tiny amount of bacon.

I'd feel less violated being physically mugged.
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Service charges should be illegal. Its like booking fees etc. The price should be the price. If you are adding a service charge to pay for your staff or whatever else, that should be reflected in the price of everything. You know, like how you charge based on ingredient cost, property, staffing etc.
 
fez said:
Service charges should be illegal. Its like booking fees etc. The price should be the price. If you are adding a service charge to pay for your staff or whatever else, that should be reflected in the price of everything. You know, like how you charge based on ingredient cost, property, staffing etc.
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Me too, just charge me what you are going to charge me. Adding extra fees on top is a no from me.

If I want to tip, I will give it in cash to the waiter, not to the business.
 
jaybee said:
Went to Bills the other day for breakfast for 2.

Orange Juice = £3.95
Orange Juice = £3.95
Bills Big Brunch = £13.95
Bill's Big Brunch = £13.95
Sub Total = £35.80
Service charge = £4.48
TOTAL = £40.28

The Orange Juices came 3/4 filled with a load of ice and the brunches were luke warm. Single sausage, tiny amount of bacon.

I'd feel less violated being physically mugged.
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It’s hard to get a typical British fry up breakfast wrong and at £14 you expect the ‘big’ version, with two plus of everything and toast to boot. The absolute state get to get a single sausage for that.
 
Ali195 said:
It’s hard to get a typical British fry up breakfast wrong and at £14 you expect the ‘big’ version, with two plus of everything and toast to boot. The absolute state get to get a single sausage for that.
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Harvester for example, £10.99 which basically comes with 3 of everything, it's not bad either the sausage whilst not top end, isn't like one of those rank budget burger van ones either, and they grill the bacon so it's crispy and smokey, mmmmm.

And that's a chain.

There is a decent local cafe in town does something called a "mega breakfast" and last time I went it was like £7.99 that included a drink.

To be honest Wetherspoons breakfast are even cheaper, they are average quality but I think less than a fiver even for a two of most thing breakfast, so I don't mind them, plus you can customise them and get stuff like black pudding.

I find it quite ironic that a place called "Bills" are charging so much.
 
Yeah never heard of Bills either. Any chain that thinks it can charge £20 for a breakfast and stay open is deluded.

Was thinking yesterday during the shop how long the random increases will continue. It definitely doesn't seem like pre covid that price increases were this random in timing and amount.

How nothing has given majorly i'm surprised.
 
The_Arbiter said:
Yeah never heard of Bills either. Any chain that thinks it can charge £20 for a breakfast and stay open is deluded.

Was thinking yesterday during the shop how long the random increases will continue. It definitely doesn't seem like pre covid that price increases were this random in timing and amount.

How nothing has given majorly i'm surprised.
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Lol
 
The_Arbiter said:
Yeah never heard of Bills either. Any chain that thinks it can charge £20 for a breakfast and stay open is deluded.

Was thinking yesterday during the shop how long the random increases will continue. It definitely doesn't seem like pre covid that price increases were this random in timing and amount.

How nothing has given majorly i'm surprised.
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Never heard of Bills either.

And yeh, that price for breakfast is ridiculous.
 
Looked at booking a hotel in the States today - by coincidence I turned out some old papers at the weekend and found my bill for the same hotel from 10 years ago - the amount per night they want now is almost exactly 300% more than back in 2014....needless to say my wages didnt increase by 300% during the same period.
 
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