Price of Fish & Chips - How Much?!?

[Gluggy]

Local chippy been shut for over a year now, just reopened and got a menu through the door. Admittedly its been a long time since I've been to a chippy but what used to be good value and affordable seems to have become silly money - £9 for haddock (no chips), £2.50 for battered sausage, £3.95 for a pie only, even the mini fish + chips "special" is £8.

Is it just me being stingy, them optimistic price wise or is this about the going rate now?

This is in South Yorkshire BTW.

[Gluggy]

Terminator X said:

Gluggy said:

Local chippy been shut for over a year now, just reopened and got a menu through the door. Admittedly its been a long time since I've been to a chippy but what used to be good value and affordable seems to have become silly money - £9 for haddock (no chips), £2.50 for battered sausage, £3.95 for a pie only, even the mini fish + chips "special" is £8.

Is it just me being stingy, them optimistic price wise or is this about the going rate now?

This is in South Yorkshire BTW.

You answered it yourself surely?

TX.

Yes and no I guess, the last owners to be honest were undercharging, battered sausage was £1, £3.95 for a mini fish special that was anything but mini and also included a side and so on.

Was expecting the new owners to raise the prices as no business can run at a loss and their costs will be higher but it just seemed expensive for something that was always considered affordable in a way that a Chinese or a Indian takeaway may not have been.

[Gluggy]

In the interest of fairness I gave them a go last night. Large fish, large chips, large curry and a saveloy which you don't often see up this way - came to about around £14.50 so not as cheap as some places but was very nice and of course way too many chips :-)

[Gluggy]

Bannock said:

vaud said:

Bannock said:

Almost 60 quid for a family of four to have that? Most Fridays I buy us a takeaway, but I can usually manage to get us a decent Curry or Chinese for nearly half that. Madness. Utter madness.

But it is large everything. There is enough there to feed at least 2 people?

Really? Perhaps I am a fatter bar steward than I thought...

You and me both ;-)

Get your point but a bit like Chinese the more people your feeding the less it costs per head - can't imagine two adults + two kids ordering four mains / four rice / four sides and if they did it would be a lot more than £30.

As Vaud said unless your a greedy git like me one portion can be shared. In this case enough chips for 2 /3 as I didn't put them all the plate, still half a pot of curry left and the fish would have done two kids easily and no way my wife would have managed one on her own. The saveloy was added as its been years since last having one but in way was it needed and not something I'd usually order anyway.

If ordering for the two of us + grandson it would probably be two large fish, one large chips, large curry and battered sausage for him and me to share which of the top of my head would be around £22 or just over £7pp,

[Gluggy]

theplayingmantis said:

The Mad Monk said:

theplayingmantis said:

....... The best chippie in padstow is chip ahoy. Used to be even better when than now but was slightly temperamental in its opening times!

Falmouth was OK back when it existed.

£950,000.00

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85438641#/?...

blimey explains a lot!. 950k... ouch always pains me to see what prices are there now compared to what they were in the early 90's

Ouch! The best part of a million is a lot of fish and chips... Guess the idea is to run it for X number of years covering costs + something to live on whilst assuming the the building / plot goes up in value so it can be sold for a nice profit - rinse and repeat.

Going back to the 950k, if I had that much knocking about there must be safer bets than a chippy that from the outside looks like the building is about to fall down?

[Gluggy]

No pictures but tried a "new to us" place a few days ago.

I had a (northern style) fish cake, whilst the mrs had a cod roe and we shared a more then generous small chips.

The roe was freshly cooked and nice but a bit on the small side, fish cake was more than decent and the chips epic.

For £5.10 I can see why they always look busy whilst on the other hand the one in my first post shut down after less than a month...

[Gluggy]

Forgot to post this one from a week or so ago.



A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.

[Gluggy]

Evoluzione said:

OutInTheShed said:

J6542 said:

Evoluzione said:

Gluggy said:

Forgot to post this one from a week or so ago.



A "mini fish" special at lunchtime for the grand total of £4 including the pot of curry sauce, was more than enough to keep me going until well into the evening and Mrs G would have been done for the rest of the day.

That looks foul. Something about a Bargepole comes to mind.

Agreed, looks like that horrible stodgie batter you get from the Chinese on chicken balls.

Fish'n'chips is not exactly a meal that photographs well.
From the pic, you can't tell anything about the texture.

£4 for a half portion sounds like a nice lunch. I like a good fish and chip supper, but I don't always want a big meal at lunch.
A lot of places, you don't get a sandwich for £4.

Not sure about the curry sauce though, surely that goes with sausage and chips for when you're really economising?

Smooth batter like that says it all, it shouldn't look like a baby otter.
It's like pork pie meat, if its grey, stay away.
I agree that £4 isn't bad though.

Fair point on the batter, it wasn't the best. The fish itself was better than expected, not fresh out the fryer but not in value fish finger territory either.

One of those where you have to be realistic in terms of expectations, £4 doesn't go as for as it used to and whilst it wasn't going win any awards, for (about) the same price as a Starbucks "Skinny Vanilla Spice Latte" I know which I'd rather have for lunch :-)