Robbing Bastards!!
Me and the Mrs thought we would treat ourselves and have a takeaway tonight...Had something from one of these burger/pizza places....
My order
2 x 1/4 Burger Meal & Chips With Can Of Pop
1 x 10" Garlic Bread with cheese
Our mrs rung it through and then she has just come up stairs and said "Be here in around an hour, and its ?13.50!"
Sod That!....
I rang up the place and wanted to know why it cost that much...
?5 a piece for the burger meals and ?2.50 for the garlic bread....AND A BLOODY ?1 FOR DELIVERY!!....
I only live around 2 mile from the joint!!
What a bloody rip off!
Told them to shove the order!!!
My order
2 x 1/4 Burger Meal & Chips With Can Of Pop
1 x 10" Garlic Bread with cheese
Our mrs rung it through and then she has just come up stairs and said "Be here in around an hour, and its ?13.50!"
Sod That!....
I rang up the place and wanted to know why it cost that much...
?5 a piece for the burger meals and ?2.50 for the garlic bread....AND A BLOODY ?1 FOR DELIVERY!!....
I only live around 2 mile from the joint!!
What a bloody rip off!
Told them to shove the order!!!
Post edited by -RubberKeys- on
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Really?? Bloody Hell!
we normally get a
12" margerita
12" veggie hot
chips
garlic mushrooms
garlic bread (free when you order i think over ?12 worth)
and sometimes we order jalepenos in cream cheese too which pushes it up a bit
but i always work out how much itll cost before i order :P
I always find that the UK pizza shops haven't quite got the gyst of Calzones, every one I've ever ordered has been minging, and they only ever seem to come with set toppings.
Wheras here in the US you can have any toppings you want on them, and they cook them nicely so the cheese isn't all greasy and soggy.
Manhattan Pizza on Chilli Road in Newcastle is a fantastic Pizza Shop! The selection of set pizzas aren't brilliant, but they taste really good, and I know the geezer who runs the place so I could get substitutions on some of the toppings, and if he'd already switched the fryer for the chips off when I got there on my nights off work he'd give me a 12' Garlic Bread for the price of some chips....which was nice.
They opened a Pizza Hut Express over the road from it, hope they haven't put it out of business, as the Manhattan shit on Pizza Huts crappo generic Pizza Shop Pizzas.
I'd also love Chicago-style pizzas as toppings here are usually incredibly stingey.
Aye when it comes to pizza though I prefer American Calzones, infact what I should say is I actually like USA Calzones. But regular pizza back home puts a lot of US pizza shops to shame especially when Americans pride themselves on making pizza.
Almost every American I've spoke to thinks the idea of Chicken and Sweetcorn pizza is weird, and I thought they bloody well invented that pizza? Also the variety of toppings here in the US is shit it's all the bloody same stuff no matter where you go. Also Hamburger Pizza WTF?
Americans make OK flat pizzas, I think us Brits win that one.
As for other take out places I prefer the Chinese food from back home as well, the Chinese here is OK, but bollocks compared to the stuff back home. The burger shops here are really good though I don't mean McDonalds or any of that prosessed shite I mean diners, and indie type burger joints, although some of the more recognised burger and steak places like Outback, and Red Robin are pretty good, and they can sell me a burger I don't really like the sound of and I'll still enjoy it.
No kebab shops round where I live, no Curry either, I have to make my own, I was really pissed off with it at first, but I've gotten quite good at making curries now to the point where I almost don't want take out anymore. I can get frozen kebab meat too, which is really nice if you mercilessly over cook it :D
There's only 1 Indian place near me and it's about 45 minutes away and it's proper play with your life dodgy, everybody who's tried it has told me to steer well clear of the place. Plus my wife and about 80% of her fam hate the stuff I cook because it stinks the house up, which annoys me cos' I know they've never tried a good curry.
Well fuck em' I'm gonna cook a nice lamb tikka Rogan Josh now just to fuck with em' I've got the lamb defrosting now, and I don't care if the missus comes home while I'm cooking it!
Plus i'm sure if you look at the menu it says 'pound delivery'. You must have sounded tight as anything ringing up to moan about that !
If anything a fiver for the burger meal sounds dear !
Some restaurants near us do collection for free within a certain area, others charge a quid. Quite normal. Cant believe you cancelled the order !!
You'll be telling Tescos where to go next if they charge you 1p per bag !
Thought it was cheaper up north?
I've mentioned it before but where I live there is pretty much every type of food available. Delivery is normally free and if not requires you to spend a certain amount, usually 12 - 15.
When I lived in another city, all the food places were terrible, really bad.
The reason is that they had a customer base who didn't know any better and there was little or no competition.
Guess thats one advantage of living in a big city.
When food is delivered, do you tip the driver? Is it bad manners not to tip them?
Its a quid ! Plus you normally tip anyway so jst give a quid less.
Bit its a quid ! People are talking like this takeaway place wanted 5 quid ! Rubberkeys was too lazy to drive 2 miles, hence a quid to drop it off for lazy people. Its nothing
Yes I know its a quid and I know he's too lazy/busy/tired etc to drive the couple of miles, but round here its free.
It's a service they offer to get more custom.
Would you tip the person in the take away if you paid in the shop rather than at your door?
I've never complained about the price of a take-away since.
then there was the cost of Euro Disney for the day, the flight and the accomodation
?1 - what a bargain
?140? What did you eat? Gold?
But yes, its a quid, cancelling the order was a bit tight.
for that price you'd expect at least platinum, ah the things you do for love
not really.. you think a car runs on air? I bet the shop prices are a LOT cheaper if you actually got off you a** and drove there :) thats what you were paying for or better still walked. 2 mile walk, takes what 10-20 minutes at most?
most places will specify a ?20 minimum order for free delivery within a 5 miile radius.
it's like years ago, I was in a hotel with a girlfriend.. she wanted breakfast and well it was rip off price , premiere inn if I recall ... I said I'd buy her whatever she wanted down the road in the tesco cafe 5 minutes down the road.. ?10 worth... for the ?2.50 breakfast in the tesco.. they wanted ?8 for the same thing in the hotel..hehe
little chef was another rip off , I remember paying for that coming back to london EVEN worse. think the bill was ?20.. and it wasn't even that good.
my fav though is a brummy m8... he m8's all had steak.. and coz he's a veggie they charged him ?25 for mushy's on toast..hehe
the most I would have paid for eating out.. would be... ?130.. BUT I wasn't paying the bill, but found out how much it normally is.. it was a 9 course thai meal in belgravia. It was for folks who were either diplomats OR charging it to business expenses I bet.. I was going out with the managers niece at the time, hence no charge.
I'd say if you did 2 miles in 10 minutes then it's not exactly a walk.
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The local ASDA (and I assume all ASDAs) makes fresh pizzas. Three for a fiver. Only takes ten minutes in the oven. And freezable. With a little foresight, probably quicker than ordering in.
*fights the urge to say 'simples'*
Yeah some places its free, some its not, some its a minimum of 15 or 20 quid etc. Either way when you have the menu and it says 'pound for delivery' then you cant really complain, i would be embarassed like anything to do an order and then at the end when he says 13 quid start moaning that 'whats that extra quid for ?' and then cancel my order !
Is this Reservoir Dogs ? ;) Of course you dont tip when you pick it up in the shop (another reason to walk there) but perhaps its just me, when some bloke on minimum wage comes round in the rain to drop off my food (As i'm too lazy to collect it myself) i'm quite glad giving him a quid or two for doing that.
Must admit our local indian which delivers is sooooo cheap you have to order a ton just to get over the minimum 12 quid mark.
Just wish there was a decent mexican near me, the chain restaurants (Chiquitos etc) are terrible and a rip off. I'm not talking 1 pound delivery charge rip off, i mean proper rip off.
In my line of business I offer a free collection and delivery service of customers machines within a ten mile radius and ?8-15 after that. Considering I might be doing a round double return trip of 60+ miles that's fair enough. The customer is waited on hand and foot, they save their car the trouble and I get the servicing bills and fuel costs. Until they invent a flying carpet that runs on human piss they can pay.
When they say fresh there not, the toppings are but the base's come out of the freezer.