Do People Think That Take Aways Offer Value For Money Today

[gollob]

When the first take aways came out they were roughly half the price of a meal in a restuarant. Now today you can go out for a meal cheaper than a take away
Perhaps the problem is too many people earn so much money and it does matter anymore

[Paigntonian]

Utterly ridiculous to spend a tenner on a delivered pizza when you can buy the same from a supermarket for three quid. I make my own, even better.

[Mexican18]

I don't agree. For£17 my wife and I have dinner two evenings running from the Chinese. We couldn't go out and do that.

[jno]

money's not the only factor. You're weighing up things like time (I used to make pizzas from scratch; they took hours), convenience (some people prefer eating at home - these days many have no choice), joy of cooking ... whatever.

[Vagus]

Were having that tomorrow evening Mexican, and I’ll finish it off for breakfast the next day :)
Good value.
I’d never, ever, get a takeaway pizza, the prices they charge are ridiculous, and I’m not that keen on pizza at those prices.

[Prudie]

Value for money is probably bottom of my list even if it made it onto the list in the first place. Sometimes a takeaway is just so much more convenient, you don't have to think what to wear or where to park or who's driving or who else to invite like when you go out for a meal, plus it's so much less time consuming when all you want to do is just eat.

[douglas9401]

Two potatoes, chipped n fried, one slice of fish, £7.50 please.

Nice gig if you can get it.

It used to be a regular thing but not any more, unfortunately I can remember a bag of chips for 6d/2.5p.

[Mexican18]

Also,if we went out we would have to buy drink which we have at home anyway.

[Atheist]

Douglas; four penn'orth o' chips and a cod.

[MallyJ]

Sending out for a curry (for example) means a lovely meal in the comfort of home, made by someone else and with little washing up...added to that is that you can dine in your pyjamas in the comfiest chair and be happy that you have chosen what you like to eat from a choice of dishes and made no real effort in its making....The latter is much better than making do with what is in your cupboards - well it is in our house!!

[Mamyalynne]

Quite a while since I had a takeaway and it was never done as a cost effective exercise but a treat.

[david small]

A very occasional experience, mainly for the convenience.

[alavahalf]

I'm jelous because I can't eat pizza .. We have just had a curry to die for .. 6 spices, 1 chicken breast, 1 onion,
1 tin of tomatoes, 1 pepper and a splash of yoghurt .. and thirty minutes from start to finish !
Quicker than a takeaway .. so simple and fresh.
Anyone can do it and everyone should try it just once .. you will be very surprised !

[237SJ]

Pizza delivery is the biggest price hike ever. It must be 20 years since I had one delivered.

[237SJ]

Another thing to consider is unless the delivery comes from a known restaurant, it could be coming from a portacabin on a trading estate in Slough or somewhere and not a real kitchen.

[Tilly2]

May I have the recipe, Alav?

[sherrardk]

We’ve had a takeaway tonight as a treat - vastly over priced but it was a treat (it wasn’t an Indian which I think works out quite well & is something I couldn’t replicate).

[allenlondon]

Pizza is different. Very average bread base topped by extremely average cheese, and a handful of tasteless toppings.

Dear if it was free!

[woofgang]

its not the food that is the value...its the not shopping, not cooking and so on that makes the value.

[douglas9401]

You might have stumbled onto something, allenlondon, venison pizza.

[Buenchico]

It's worth remembering that 90% of independent food service businesses go bust within the first two years, so takeaway owners can't all be making a fortune from what Gollob sees as high prices.

Further, staff working in takeaway establishments (and delivering food for them) are nearly always minimum wage employees and the National Minimum Wage has been rising faster than inflation for many years, forcing takeaway establishments to keep raising their prices.

Rather than comparing takeaway prices with those of restaurants, I've always compared them in my mind with the prices of similar food sold as chilled ready meals in supermarkets. (Indeed, several supermarkets now sell a range of products marketed as 'takeaway', specifically designed to emulate what's on offer from Indian and Chinese takeaways). Based upon that, I've always regarded takeaways as expensive and something which I might typically buy perhaps only three or four times in a year.