And here we are at the tipping point to a feedback loop.
Takeaways are down, food prices up, and they’ll keep going up because of less orders to the point where they close because nobody can afford it.
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I spent £20 on a dominos and got a small pizza and two sides. It was a treat and I tried to justify it thinking I’d pay it at a restaurant but still stung. I get one once every 2/3 weeks vs every weekend now.
My regular takeaways have all reissued menus lately with the prices going up significantly, it’s certainly made me order less.
My families takeaway (there’s five of us ) now costs us the amount it used to cost to physically go out for a meal in a pub/non high end restaurant . It’s ridiculous
A new chip shop recently opened near me that is charging £12.50 for a fish supper, not even using cod or haddock, just that shite Hake or whatever it is. Ordering on one of these middlemen sites bumps that up to £15.50. For a fish supper. No wonder orders are dropping
I’m absolutely done with the likes of JustEat and Deliveroo (also UberEats but not mentioned in this article). The food is never great, often yours is being collected and delivered with multiple other orders which makes sense, but it also makes for cold, soggy orders and a long wait. On top of that you have all the extra fees and bumped up prices. Whenever I get a hankering from a takeaway I make the effort to go collect from somewhere local (ordering directly) or I just go out to eat in a restaurent. Or give up entirely because I cba and begrudlingly suffer with what I bought from the supermarket. They aren’t taking my money for a mediocre experience.
It’s about £17 for a regular cheese pizza in my area after you include admin fee, service charges, etc.
Insane price.
We haven’t had a takeaway from the usual brands for years now, and since the price bloating started. You can get an actually memorable 3 course meal from M&S or Cook for half the same price these days.
I’ve noticed this. Circa 20% uplift in order costs.
I am literally having to shop around the different platforms (uber, deliveroo, just eat), work the promotions out and oftentimes not order as I can’t afford to.
I feel worse for the local independent takeaway, Ubereats, deliveroo etc will continue to thrive it’s these little shops that will be hit the hardest. If you can always call up to see if they can deliver directly or can pick up yourself. Rather give my money to the locals then to these greedy corporations
Food prices increasing is the key takeaway of this.
None of those delivery middlemen have a viable business model at the mo so I guess they are in a ‘last man standing’ fight
Not only have the prices gone up, the quality has gone down. Takeaway over the road from me used to do some really nice stuff, but I’ve been twice this year and both times the majority has gone in the bin
A medium kebab has gone from 5.50 to 7.50. Same with a 10 inch pizza. Started charging 90p for ‘American spice’ on the chips too. Oh and the chips are shite. Undercooked thick cut things
This is just the beginning.
Everyone is tightening their belts and it’ll only get worse as the winter drags on.
Lots of businesses will go out of business.
5 of us ordered Indian a few weeks ago for brother’s birthday. 4 curries, 4 rice, 2 naan and some dips came to £65 through Deliveroo. Never again
I stopped buying takeaways 6 months ago. I just can’t afford it for what often is an average meal.
Can’t say I miss it at all.
Not just the price, the quality and portions have taken a major nosedive.
Makes sense.
We’ve turned our date nights into finding what we’d want to order and then just buying it cheap from a shop can making it ourselves.
Best thing I’ve done in a long time is pick up an air-fryer (at half price in Lidl, no less).
Buy decent frozen stuff from the local bulk sellers, stick them in the air fryer, job’s a good ‘un for a fraction of the price, plus no waiting on the soggy, cold delivery.
Plus, the air fryer is cheaper to run than the oven too.
I stopped getting takeaways a while ago.
On my profile page you can see the kebab rolls I made, feed a family of 3 with them, tastes amazing and costs about six quid for 3 of us.
My favourite go to kebab shop now charges £10 for a doner kebab, £12.50 for large. So if I got 3 it would be thirty quid
Same for the Chinese, it’s a minimum £25
It’s just too much for a meal in
> Deliveroo was also seeing that “the more affluent a consumer, the higher the engagement is on the platform
Breaking: people with more money, spend money more
Dominos has notably increased – especially with the added delivery fee (a stealth increase – especially as none of that goes to the delivery person). Add to this the limited menu on many occasions now makes them no longer worth it.
I think you are now looking at around £30+ for a family deal deal that used to be £20?
As a result, tried my local independent local pizza place and was delighted to find them great value and good food.
£10.90 for a bloody cod and chips in Newcastle.
Robbing bastards
Well that will happen when you build your country up on a service based economy and forget to you know, actually ensure your populous can afford to spend their money on said services.
I used to go to a local breakfast van every Friday for my breakfast roll. Religiously, never missed it unless I was holiday. Pre-pandemic £5 for a breakfast roll; expensive but fine for a once a week treat. They reopened after redecorating and now it’s £7…
My wages haven’t gone up 40% because they redecorated. This isn’t London. I’m just not going to pay £7 for a breakfast roll. Unfortunately haven’t been back since
My local chicken shop had the best fried chicken I’ve ever had, it was succulent, flavourful, amazing, 100x better than anything KFC could put out.
Anyway, it was also incredibly good value, a meal, which included a chunky fillet burger, huge amount of amazing fries, 3 hot wings and a pot of gravy and a drink was £6.50… it’s now £9.88 🙁
I’ve stopped using the apps, fed up of waiting 45mins-1 hour for a pizza or burger that is incorrect or something missing when it arrives, and paying stupid money when I can buy a pizza in Tesco and whack it in the oven for 10 minutes.
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https://www.ft.com/content/7c51f641-75f1-419b-8a7b-6241736bdbd5
Financial Times – Tim Bradshaw
And here we are at the tipping point to a feedback loop.
Takeaways are down, food prices up, and they’ll keep going up because of less orders to the point where they close because nobody can afford it.
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I spent £20 on a dominos and got a small pizza and two sides. It was a treat and I tried to justify it thinking I’d pay it at a restaurant but still stung. I get one once every 2/3 weeks vs every weekend now.
My regular takeaways have all reissued menus lately with the prices going up significantly, it’s certainly made me order less.
My families takeaway (there’s five of us ) now costs us the amount it used to cost to physically go out for a meal in a pub/non high end restaurant . It’s ridiculous
A new chip shop recently opened near me that is charging £12.50 for a fish supper, not even using cod or haddock, just that shite Hake or whatever it is. Ordering on one of these middlemen sites bumps that up to £15.50. For a fish supper. No wonder orders are dropping
I’m absolutely done with the likes of JustEat and Deliveroo (also UberEats but not mentioned in this article). The food is never great, often yours is being collected and delivered with multiple other orders which makes sense, but it also makes for cold, soggy orders and a long wait. On top of that you have all the extra fees and bumped up prices. Whenever I get a hankering from a takeaway I make the effort to go collect from somewhere local (ordering directly) or I just go out to eat in a restaurent. Or give up entirely because I cba and begrudlingly suffer with what I bought from the supermarket. They aren’t taking my money for a mediocre experience.
It’s about £17 for a regular cheese pizza in my area after you include admin fee, service charges, etc.
Insane price.
We haven’t had a takeaway from the usual brands for years now, and since the price bloating started. You can get an actually memorable 3 course meal from M&S or Cook for half the same price these days.
I’ve noticed this. Circa 20% uplift in order costs.
I am literally having to shop around the different platforms (uber, deliveroo, just eat), work the promotions out and oftentimes not order as I can’t afford to.
I feel worse for the local independent takeaway, Ubereats, deliveroo etc will continue to thrive it’s these little shops that will be hit the hardest. If you can always call up to see if they can deliver directly or can pick up yourself. Rather give my money to the locals then to these greedy corporations
Food prices increasing is the key takeaway of this.
None of those delivery middlemen have a viable business model at the mo so I guess they are in a ‘last man standing’ fight
Not only have the prices gone up, the quality has gone down. Takeaway over the road from me used to do some really nice stuff, but I’ve been twice this year and both times the majority has gone in the bin
A medium kebab has gone from 5.50 to 7.50. Same with a 10 inch pizza. Started charging 90p for ‘American spice’ on the chips too. Oh and the chips are shite. Undercooked thick cut things
This is just the beginning.
Everyone is tightening their belts and it’ll only get worse as the winter drags on.
Lots of businesses will go out of business.
5 of us ordered Indian a few weeks ago for brother’s birthday. 4 curries, 4 rice, 2 naan and some dips came to £65 through Deliveroo. Never again
I stopped buying takeaways 6 months ago. I just can’t afford it for what often is an average meal.
Can’t say I miss it at all.
Not just the price, the quality and portions have taken a major nosedive.
Makes sense.
We’ve turned our date nights into finding what we’d want to order and then just buying it cheap from a shop can making it ourselves.
Best thing I’ve done in a long time is pick up an air-fryer (at half price in Lidl, no less).
Buy decent frozen stuff from the local bulk sellers, stick them in the air fryer, job’s a good ‘un for a fraction of the price, plus no waiting on the soggy, cold delivery.
Plus, the air fryer is cheaper to run than the oven too.
I stopped getting takeaways a while ago.
On my profile page you can see the kebab rolls I made, feed a family of 3 with them, tastes amazing and costs about six quid for 3 of us.
My favourite go to kebab shop now charges £10 for a doner kebab, £12.50 for large. So if I got 3 it would be thirty quid
Same for the Chinese, it’s a minimum £25
It’s just too much for a meal in
> Deliveroo was also seeing that “the more affluent a consumer, the higher the engagement is on the platform
Breaking: people with more money, spend money more
Dominos has notably increased – especially with the added delivery fee (a stealth increase – especially as none of that goes to the delivery person). Add to this the limited menu on many occasions now makes them no longer worth it.
I think you are now looking at around £30+ for a family deal deal that used to be £20?
As a result, tried my local independent local pizza place and was delighted to find them great value and good food.
£10.90 for a bloody cod and chips in Newcastle.
Robbing bastards
Well that will happen when you build your country up on a service based economy and forget to you know, actually ensure your populous can afford to spend their money on said services.
I used to go to a local breakfast van every Friday for my breakfast roll. Religiously, never missed it unless I was holiday. Pre-pandemic £5 for a breakfast roll; expensive but fine for a once a week treat. They reopened after redecorating and now it’s £7…
My wages haven’t gone up 40% because they redecorated. This isn’t London. I’m just not going to pay £7 for a breakfast roll. Unfortunately haven’t been back since
My local chicken shop had the best fried chicken I’ve ever had, it was succulent, flavourful, amazing, 100x better than anything KFC could put out.
Anyway, it was also incredibly good value, a meal, which included a chunky fillet burger, huge amount of amazing fries, 3 hot wings and a pot of gravy and a drink was £6.50… it’s now £9.88 🙁
I’ve stopped using the apps, fed up of waiting 45mins-1 hour for a pizza or burger that is incorrect or something missing when it arrives, and paying stupid money when I can buy a pizza in Tesco and whack it in the oven for 10 minutes.