Burgers & fries prices

[Sa Calobra]

Speaking of which:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chef-jamie-oliver-p...

[JKRolling]

schmunk said:

battered said:

Sa Calobra said:

+£4 for the fries.

You f***ing WHAT? 4 quid for a bag of chips?

In a restaurant. In central London. You try playing their rent and staffing costs, then question the price of chips...

I totally agree with this argument to a point. It falls down in that at Five Guys branch in Dudley it is still £5 for large fries. Dudley is one of the most deprived and cheapest areas in the UK. Most chip shops want between 0.90p and £1.50 for a very large bag of chips

[battered]

JKRolling said:

I totally agree with this argument to a point. It falls down in that at Five Guys branch in Dudley it is still £5 for large fries. Dudley is one of the most deprived and cheapest areas in the UK. Most chip shops want between 0.90p and £1.50 for a very large bag of chips

This is the curse of the chain restaurant. For Dudley I will give you Grimsby, Barnsley and Oldham, all places I know, sadly. They all charge the same as the same places in Piccadilly, Westminster and South Ken. National chains cannot afford to have a pricing policy based on the average income of the customer, or the difference in ground rent. Is Harehills, Leeds, tougher or less so than Moss Side, Manchester? Poorer than Croxteth, Liverpool, or about the same?

[battered]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Presentation, presentation, presentation is the difference. If you want some plumbing work done and a guy says £200, then you ask me and I say I'll do it for £150 + parts, you'll hire me. If I then bum you for £40 for a washer, making the bill £190, are you happy? Are you f**k. I've come in £10 cheaper but I'm not the guy who's done you a good deal, I'm the F*ing robbing c*** who's bummed you for £40 for a f*ing washer, and you're going to tell all your mates. You had a choice, you could have used the guy who wanted £200. Now how happy are you? Not very, and you still think I'm a robbing ****.

[JKRolling]

battered said:

JKRolling said:

I totally agree with this argument to a point. It falls down in that at Five Guys branch in Dudley it is still £5 for large fries. Dudley is one of the most deprived and cheapest areas in the UK. Most chip shops want between 0.90p and £1.50 for a very large bag of chips

This is the curse of the chain restaurant. For Dudley I will give you Grimsby, Barnsley and Oldham, all places I know, sadly. They all charge the same as the same places in Piccadilly, Westminster and South Ken. National chains cannot afford to have a pricing policy based on the average income of the customer, or the difference in ground rent. Is Harehills, Leeds, tougher or less so than Moss Side, Manchester? Poorer than Croxteth, Liverpool, or about the same?

And yet a lot of retailers do exactly that with regional pricing models

[battered]

They may do N/S, they don't do Alderley Edge cf. Winsford, or New Miller Dam cf. Barnsley. If they do, let me know.

[scjgreen]

Truffle Shuffle from Meat59 in Torquay

6oz hamburger patty, wild mushrooms, wilted spinach, caramelised red onion and truffle mayo

Delightful!

[Mr Happy]

Best burger I've had was the Elvis, from Caesar's in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Pretty much 1lb of meat, probably the same again of cheese and half again in chips and coleslaw. I haven't been for a several years now, but from memory it was about £15-16 plus a drink, but worth every penny.

[ApOrbital]

Best one i had was from a local van on a industrial estate freshly cooked £2.60.

[Sa Calobra]

Mr Happy said:

Best burger I've had was the Elvis, from Caesar's in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Pretty much 1lb of meat, probably the same again of cheese and half again in chips and coleslaw. I haven't been for a several years now, but from memory it was about £15-16 plus a drink, but worth every penny.

I keep meaning to pop down to the Surrey Hills this month, I'll put this on the agenda

[DanL]

Eat the farm - burger camper van in London (and elsewhere I assume!). Best burgers I've ever had - their "dirty cow" is amazing.

http://www.eatthefarm.com/

[Pothole]

Sa Calobra said:

Mr Happy said:

Best burger I've had was the Elvis, from Caesar's in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Pretty much 1lb of meat, probably the same again of cheese and half again in chips and coleslaw. I haven't been for a several years now, but from memory it was about £15-16 plus a drink, but worth every penny.

I keep meaning to pop down to the Surrey Hills this month, I'll put this on the agenda

Closed at the end of 2015.

[The Mad Monk]

Mr Happy said:

Best burger I've had was the Elvis, from Caesar's in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Pretty much 1lb of meat, probably the same again of cheese and half again in chips and coleslaw. I haven't been for a several years now, but from memory it was about £15-16 plus a drink, but worth every penny.

I was reading this through thinking - yes, but how much was it? - then I got to the end £15- £16!! Plus the cost of a drink!!!!

You would have been much better off going into Wetherspoons in Leatherhead. about £6 - £7 for a nice burger and chips including a drink.

Job jobbed.

[FiF]

The Mad Monk said:

Mr Happy said:

Best burger I've had was the Elvis, from Caesar's in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Pretty much 1lb of meat, probably the same again of cheese and half again in chips and coleslaw. I haven't been for a several years now, but from memory it was about £15-16 plus a drink, but worth every penny.

I was reading this through thinking - yes, but how much was it? - then I got to the end £15- £16!! Plus the cost of a drink!!!!

You would have been much better off going into Wetherspoons in Leatherhead. about £6 - £7 for a nice burger and chips including a drink.

Job jobbed.

Maybe it's just me but why would anyone want a pound of cheese on a burger? Frankly that sounds horrific. Even if it's a really massive burger, proportions just wrong imo, but each to their own.

[Burwood]

You beat me to it. A cake made of cheese?

[Sa Calobra]

i've watched man versus food too much and now my portion o'metre is waaaay off

[mattdaniels]

battered said:

schmunk said:

battered said:

Sa Calobra said:

+£4 for the fries.

You f***ing WHAT? 4 quid for a bag of chips?

In a restaurant. In central London. You try playing their rent and staffing costs, then question the price of chips...

Yeah, I get that. I don't expect anyone to work at a loss. Any resto needs to pay the rent, staff, buy ingredients and then return a profit for the shareholders. I haven't got a problem with that. It's just p*ss poor marketing to structure it as they have done. I'd pay £17 for a burger in central London, if it came served with salad, chips and all the rest. If however you want £13 for the burger and £4 for a bag of chips then it's that bit that smacks of taking the p*ss. I know that there isn't a difference, it's just the way that it's presented.

It wouldn't be so bad if you got a substantial portion size. I think everyone appreciates the running costs have to be covered, that's a given. But the raw material in a portion of chips is relatively cheap, so the overall production cost does not rise significantly between a cup full of chips and a plate full.

Sa Calobra said:

Speaking of which:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chef-jamie-oliver-p...

Worth remembering all that "pink slime" nonsense is McDonald's in America - they don't have that process in the UK.

[oyster]

Driver101 said:

Even places like 5 Guys gets away with high prices. It's £15 for a burger, fries and a draught soft drink.

Long queues to get served, a further long stand waiting for the food to be prepared, and then it's served in a brown paper bag to eat at tables that probably haven't been cleaned.

They must be doing enough to keep people happy as they tend to be busy.

Full of 20-somethings who visit multiple times per week but apparently can't afford to save for a house deposit.



Can't think why.

[Burwood]

Jamie bloody Oliver, fking hypocrite. How many of your restaurants, Jamie, have failed to meet, what are pretty basic hygiene standards? His restaurants get the worst reviews due to serving basic bland dishes sold at premium prices.

[Mr Happy]

Pothole said:

Sa Calobra said:

Mr Happy said:

Best burger I've had was the Elvis, from Caesar's in Leatherhead, Surrey.

Pretty much 1lb of meat, probably the same again of cheese and half again in chips and coleslaw. I haven't been for a several years now, but from memory it was about £15-16 plus a drink, but worth every penny.

I keep meaning to pop down to the Surrey Hills this month, I'll put this on the agenda

Closed at the end of 2015.

Damn that's a shame

And a pound of cheese was a large (what I thought was a rather obvious) exaggeration, but this was found on google (in the Dirty Takeaway thread of this very forum) and it's the Elvis in all its calorific glory.