How much are you prepared to pay for food?

jamoor

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Personally if I was eating out I wouldn't pay anything more than £6, yet some of my friends go on about how they will happily pay £15 for a main course...

What about you?
 
£6? :/

I'll pay whatever the food is worth. If its worth 50p I begrudge paying a quid, if its worth £100 for a 3 course meal then its been fantastic and I don't mind paying it.
 
Eating out.... I never have a budget, you are out for a meal, you have what the hell you want, enjoy your self, stagger home drunk. Think about the cost later.
 
normally I'd spend around £10-15 on a main . I've gone up to £40 but thats very rare. Most on one meal was over £60 a head, not including the wine.
 
I try to eat home made, healthy stuff, it's much cheaper than getting takeaways all the time and you don't get all greasy fried fat with it :p But where I eat depends how much I am going to pay, if it's on the local Chinese restaurant I wouldn't mind paying around a £5, but at takeaways no more than 5pound.

Gilly said:
£6? :/

I'll pay whatever the food is worth. If its worth 50p I begrudge paying a quid, if its worth £100 for a 3 course meal then its been fantastic and I don't mind paying it.
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You should get like a custom avatar, it's so weird seeing you with the wise guy pic!
 
Hmm tricky one.

At present I wouldn't pay, say, over £50 for 3 courses of food as I simply don't think it'd be worth it, IMO there's a limit to how nice food gets before the portions start going down and although it's nice you end up wanting a burger afterwards!

In most places in London you sometimes struggle to get a starter for £6, let alone a main course! :p
 
If I'm having a 3-course meal, anything up to around £25. I'm 15, so I don't usually eat at fancy restaurants when I'm paying for my food, but if my mother is, then that's probably how much I'd expect her to pay for my meal.

If I'm paying with my own money, about £15 is what I'd go up to, unless there is some reason why I wouldn't mind paying more. Usually about £10 since I usually eat at Pizza Hut when I eat with friends. :)
 
jamoor said:
Personally if I was eating out I wouldn't pay anything more than £6, yet some of my friends go on about how they will happily pay £15 for a main course...

What about you?
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Depending on where we are, I have spent £1.99 to almost £100 on eating out. The last time i did, i spent £40.00 and boy it was rubbish! :o
 
Gilly said:
£6? :/

I'll pay whatever the food is worth. If its worth 50p I begrudge paying a quid, if its worth £100 for a 3 course meal then its been fantastic and I don't mind paying it.
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no matter how good it was, I would never pay that much.
 
Never paid more than about 60 quid for a meal out.
Even that might be pushing it - I just can't remember.

That said if the meal was worth it I'd pay anything within reason.
 
William said:
Eating out.... I never have a budget, you are out for a meal, you have what the hell you want, enjoy your self, stagger home drunk. Think about the cost later.
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its impossible for my brain to work like that :)
 
jamoor said:
no matter how good it was, I would never pay that much.
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Last meal I had I paid £20 for it and thought I was fairly hard done by because the fare was poor.

The time before that I paid (I think) £45 and would've paid a lot more for what I got.
 
Rich_L said:
Hmm tricky one.

At present I wouldn't pay, say, over £50 for 3 courses of food as I simply don't think it'd be worth it, IMO there's a limit to how nice food gets before the portions start going down and although it's nice you end up wanting a burger afterwards!

In most places in London you sometimes struggle to get a starter for £6, let alone a main course! :p
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yeah, how come in really good "gourmet" posh food the portions are tiny, like a piece of cheesecake is the size of a deck of cards but has all this fancy stuff all over it.
 
It was my mates birthday yesterday, and he choice to go to this mexican restaurant that we went to last summer (which btw i said i'd never go back to... too much £ for too little quantity)


anyway i went along because it was his birthday, spent 15£, which was on a main meal (which came with starters) and half a pitcher of this lemonadey stuff.


If it wasnt his birthday i would NOT have paid 15 quid for a mexican, my mum can make a mexican, anybodies mum can.

You can't make good british chinese restaurant food at home though...

We could have been dining on UNLIMITED duck for £15, instead of one plate of refried beans with tacos.


Usually i only eat bargain food anyway... special burger king offers of bus tickets etc... there is always a way
 
Most of the cost from restaurants comes from the wine anyways, but I don't really have a limit in terms of food. Restaurants in London are just sublime if you pick the good ones and worth every penny.
 
Carzy said:
Most of the cost from restaurants comes from the wine anyways, but I don't really have a limit in terms of food. Restaurants in London are just sublime if you pick the good ones and worth every penny.
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thats a good point, I dont drink at all so that may be a factor.
 
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