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halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato on sourdough. Charge about £6 and you'll have a queue out the door. Serve beetroot and jam for £1 and you'll just be frustrated that no-one 'gets' your range and you have to close. I'm sure at least one person in the UK likes it but you need to know your market.
Rare roast beef, watercress & a scrape of fresh horseradish. Homemade walnut bread.
I was helping a neighbour last weekend with some ground clearing, for lunch his wife brought us fish finger & humus, seeded wholemeal bread. That was a new one for me, I might have to try again but with more humus & some specially purchased cheap & nasty national flannel.
I was helping a neighbour last weekend with some ground clearing, for lunch his wife brought us fish finger & humus, seeded wholemeal bread. That was a new one for me, I might have to try again but with more humus & some specially purchased cheap & nasty national flannel.
Blown2CV said:
halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato on sourdough. Charge about £6 and you'll have a queue out the door. Serve beetroot and jam for £1 and you'll just be frustrated that no-one 'gets' your range and you have to close. I'm sure at least one person in the UK likes it but you need to know your market.
Says the chap who puts fennel on a sandwich! You'll be suggesting slices of avocado next...(FWIW beetroot and jam does nowt for me either. But outside of the West End or Hoxton I suspect your favourite will have a limited market too).
Murph7355 said:
Blown2CV said:
halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato on sourdough. Charge about £6 and you'll have a queue out the door. Serve beetroot and jam for £1 and you'll just be frustrated that no-one 'gets' your range and you have to close. I'm sure at least one person in the UK likes it but you need to know your market.
Says the chap who puts fennel on a sandwich! You'll be suggesting slices of avocado next...(FWIW beetroot and jam does nowt for me either. But outside of the West End or Hoxton I suspect your favourite will have a limited market too).
t where you only get builders and unemployed coming in, coppering up for basic sandwiches. You'll be working like a fking dog, won't be able to afford help, and all for no margin whatsoever. I'm not saying i'm some kind of alan sugar style business expert but it seems pretty obvious to me that the primary aim is to make money, not to please the largest number of people. Most people are skint.Blown2CV said:
halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato on sourdough.
Good suggestion... However it needs something....I'd probably make a slight change by adding bacon, fresh, thick white bread and probably a bit of butter too. Replace the halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato with a drizzle of brown sauce.Mr Roper said:
Blown2CV said:
halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato on sourdough.
Good suggestion... However it needs something....I'd probably make a slight change by adding bacon, fresh, thick white bread and probably a bit of butter too. Replace the halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato with a drizzle of brown sauce.king make at home" market. Blown2CV said:
i can see i am pissing in the wind here, and all of you are aiming at the "incapable of making a sandwich" market when in fact the real money is in the "willing to spend money to buy something you can't just fking make at home" market.
You may think that. But the company I work for sells, I don't know, but let's just say 'lots' of sandwiches each week. We won an award a couple of years ago for the best 'food on the move' sandwich offer.king make at home" market. The big sellers are the staple products - chicken triple, club, BLT, all day breakfast, etc.
We do 'limited editions' - but they're incredibly hit and miss - people buy as a novelty, but by the end of the season, demand has tailed off and everyone is back to the old favourites.
Blown2CV said:
Mr Roper said:
Blown2CV said:
halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato on sourdough.
Good suggestion... However it needs something....I'd probably make a slight change by adding bacon, fresh, thick white bread and probably a bit of butter too. Replace the halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato with a drizzle of brown sauce.king make at home" market. 
Rattled over sandwich.
Funny.
Mr Roper said:
Blown2CV said:
Mr Roper said:
Blown2CV said:
halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato on sourdough.
Good suggestion... However it needs something....I'd probably make a slight change by adding bacon, fresh, thick white bread and probably a bit of butter too. Replace the halloumi, chorizo, mushroom, fennel, tomato with a drizzle of brown sauce.king make at home" market. Rattled over sandwich.
Funny.
From a customers perspective :
Most mornings I buy a coffee from an industrial estate sandwich shop 5 mins from work.
Min. requirements are good coffee, fast, for a sensible price, with parking out front.
They do a lot of bacon & egg (& hash brown / chorizo) rolls for tradies breakfast.
I go there for lunch a couple of times a week -
Salami & onion, cold roast beef & lettuce (on brown bread), ham & cucumber on white are my standard fillings in summer.
It doesn't need to be artisan bread, just not the cheapest plastic stuff.
They also do a lot of bacon & egg rolls for the tradies lunches too.
Winter they do soup, and a roast for rolls two days a week - alternating beef / pork / lamb.
Parking is less important at luch time, as time is less critical, but I have driven on to another shop when the carpark was crammed.
Tradies are good regular customers. I see the same faces every morning.
Most mornings I buy a coffee from an industrial estate sandwich shop 5 mins from work.
Min. requirements are good coffee, fast, for a sensible price, with parking out front.
They do a lot of bacon & egg (& hash brown / chorizo) rolls for tradies breakfast.
I go there for lunch a couple of times a week -
Salami & onion, cold roast beef & lettuce (on brown bread), ham & cucumber on white are my standard fillings in summer.
It doesn't need to be artisan bread, just not the cheapest plastic stuff.
They also do a lot of bacon & egg rolls for the tradies lunches too.
Winter they do soup, and a roast for rolls two days a week - alternating beef / pork / lamb.
Parking is less important at luch time, as time is less critical, but I have driven on to another shop when the carpark was crammed.
Tradies are good regular customers. I see the same faces every morning.
Blown2CV said:
i can see i am pissing in the wind here, and all of you are aiming at the "incapable of making a sandwich" market when in fact the real money is in the "willing to spend money to buy something you can't just fking make at home" market.
I'm with Blown2CV here. I would never buy a bacon sandwich from a shop as it will inevitably be rubbish compared to home-made.king make at home" market. You can keep your overpowering chewy chorizo though. Yuk
AlexC1981 said:
Blown2CV said:
i can see i am pissing in the wind here, and all of you are aiming at the "incapable of making a sandwich" market when in fact the real money is in the "willing to spend money to buy something you can't just fking make at home" market.
I'm with Blown2CV here. I would never buy a bacon sandwich from a shop as it will inevitably be rubbish compared to home-made.king make at home" market. You can keep your overpowering chewy chorizo though. Yuk
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