We tend of avoid pub chains as never been fussed on the food they serve. It may be okay and good value, but seems on occasions to be reheated frozen food.
You would be surprised at how many restaurants and pubs use pre prepared frozen food which all they do is reheat it, and it’s across the price range too..
No idea as generally we seldom eat out. I am not a chef by any stretch of the imagination, but I like to think my freshly cooked meals are a lot tastier than many pubs and restaurants. Either way it is a very expensive exercise eating out these days.
Eating out can be done on the cheap at the places Roger mentioned. Near Cirencester we had the Beefeater. It lasted two years, didn’t get used and is now closed to outside of the Premier Inn customers.
Not Fine Dining but reasonable steaks and chicken.
A gastro pub nearby charges £35 for a steak and £38 for a bottle of Pino Grigio. We don’t use it much!
Not Fine Dining but reasonable steaks and chicken.
A gastro pub nearby charges £35 for a steak and £38 for a bottle of Pino Grigio. We don’t use it much!
Whitbread, who own Table Table, Brewer's Fayre, Beefeater and Cookhouse Pub have shut about 200 of their restaurants and using the land to extend their Premier Inns on the same site - it seems that pub/restaurants aren't profitable enough but hotels are.
We have no chain pubs within easy driving distance. I think the nearest one is about 10 miles away and is a Wetherspoons.
In our area that there are groupings of Wadworths pubs and Butcombe Brewery pubs. There was a time when each pub tended to have different menu offerings so there was a choice of venue and menu. Now it’s quite noticeable that each grouping tends to have the same menu within all of its pubs. Clearly it’s a way of keeping costs down for the pub but other than ordering a steak or ham, egg and chips, I think it suggests that most meals are served in from large industrial caterers like Brakes. Anyone remember Gordon Ramsay being found out by serving a meal supplied by an external catering company?
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But... food prices at the supermarket soared as well. This is nothing to do with eating out, it's eating in general! According to the web, food prices dropped slightly in 2020, increased slightly in 2021, increased 10.5% 2022, 19.3% 2023 and 7% 2024. if you spent £10 in 2019, food price inflation makes that £14.10 now. Throw in energy price increases (businesses go no energy assistance unlike domestic customers) using the appropriate values £10 on energy in 2020, is now £17.82....
That sounds like your £15 for a burger isn't unreasonable bearing in mind those issues.
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