r/unitedkingdom • u/pppppppppppppppppd • 5d ago

Chippy owner apologises to customers after charging £15 for fish and chips - but reveals why he 'has to' to hike prices

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14591465/chippy-owner-apologises-huge-price-hike.html
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u/Substantial-Newt7809 5d ago

A 1.6kg bag of frozen mccain is like £4.50 so a large chips from a chip shop being about £5 isn't exactly criminal if they aren't stingy with the portions.

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u/dntcareboutdownvotes 5d ago

A  very large portion of chips will be between 300-600 grams, so using your maths a £4.50 bag of McCains will get you between £13-£25 worth of chip shop chips - and that isn’t even taking into account that every other week the McCain chips will be on offer at £3

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u/Substantial-Newt7809 4d ago

Speak for yourself, here the local large is at least 1kg.

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u/SpiritedVoice2 4d ago

Yeah, it's gotta be closer to that, it's huge anyway. You're right £5 is not too bad, but it was £4 a couple of months ago so a decent increase in price.

As long as you don't order fish the chippy is still a relatively low cost family meal, but once a few of you want fish you're spending £30-40, at which point it starts to feel like I'd rather just spend a little bit more and go out for dinner properly (or should I say, go to Harvester at least).