Is £1.45 For One Slice Of Toast

[bundleone]

I think £1.45 for a slice of white toast and a pat of butter is a bit excessive from a cafe. Am I being unreasonable in thinking I,ve been done ?

[ChillDoubt]

the thing with bananas is they don't keep....so you either have to be very good at knowing how many you will sell, or you have to add in something on top of your profit to cover losses.
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Agreed, it just rankles that patients and relatives who attend our canteen on occasion get charged that much, just doesn’t feel right that someone in the NHS is making that much profit.

[Maydup]

We have to remember that people selling or serving us food need to be paid. Include their time for buying the bread or the bananas, preparing them, or delivering them to you, and some allowance for waste, they will need to make profit every hour the are working to cover that. Not easy on a few pence profit margin.

[aelmpvw]

i bet it wasn't butter ...

[JJ109]

Every small business has to recoup the business rates, staff costs, heating, bank charges and a myriad of other costs before it makes a profit. A restaurant or cafe will have a figure that it needs to make from each customer that sits down. Therefore for a small business it is necessary to jack the prices, otherwise they will go bust.

This is not the same for a supermarket chain though. They are relying on you spending money on groceries etc and they make their profit from you that way. Therefore they can charge for breakfasts as a loss-leader and are able to give better value than a small cafe or restaurant

Therefore if it was a small business you were not over-charged. If it was a supermarket chain, you were!