Sandwiches from the shop too expensive

What do you expect?This is rip-off Britain after all.Overpriced crap full of fat and bland tasting gunk.Most of these sarnies are not even healthy.Coffee shops are the worst.These rip-off outlets are springing up all over the place nowadays.Subway are just the same.Always taste bland and soggy.Also,why are we fooled into buying French bread rolls and baguettes in supermarkets when they are not?Don't be ripped off.Complain!!

Don't some of you people realise that sandwich shops have overheads (that's rental, staff, cleaning, tax, social charges, electricity, tax, depreciation of equipment, licences, etc in case you are too thick to understand), and there is a price for your convenience. You have a choice, exercise it and make your own, as some of you have said.

And Abdul ..... why? What's your problem?

I work for a big sandwich factory in Worksop, I do 12 hour shifts, and I personally spit in every 3rd sandwich!

Today I was cheated yet again. The board behind the serving counter reported that my coffee and bacon sandwich totalled £3, which I ate in. On paying the bill was £3.20p. Eat in I was told was more expensive. Bah! I will refuse to be grossly deceived again [pubs also deceive horribly so]. Never again. I hope all these places close down because they are not up front honest.

I have been taking my own sandwiches to work for quite a while now for two reasons, the sandwiches in the work canteen are unappetising and secondly, I believe that the sandwiches on sale in the shops don't represent value for money and leave me still hungry.

On the value for money point, take a loaf of bread that costs £1. There's 20 slices in that loaf which equals 5p a slice. 2 slices equals 10p. I know there's the filling etc but I can make a very nice sandwich at home the night before for 50p or less thank you very much ! And it only takes minutes !

The cheapest sandwich I've seen in a supermarket is £1.30 and they are dry sad affairs! Also, I need more than 1 sandwich to feed me through a long day at work.

After years of wasting money on these foods I decided to invest in a "dome" type American style lunch box from John Lewis. In the top half I keep a flat "food flask" filled with Green tea (No milk needed) and in the bottom half I keep 2 sandwiches and I vary the fruit and vegetables.

The fruit and veg are things like raw carrot, cucumber, baby beetroots, a boiled egg, Ryvita, apples, pears, bananas and grapes.

I now find that I am spending about £2.00 a day by preparing the food myself, eating healthier as I'm eating fruit and veg instead of biscuits and chocolates and also satisfying my appetite to the point that some days I come home with food left over ! I've also lost weight and this was an accidental bonus !

I have to prepare my lunchbox the night before and sometimes I don't always feel like it, but the thought of the alternative spurs me on !

I'd recommend preparing your own lunch to anyone rather than going to these overpriced sandwich places!

The other day I had the misfortune to enter a new food outlet which has just opened up in our area, namely

EAT. [eat.co.uk]

Advertised on their main menu board was

Full English Breakfast

Now I like a good fry up in the morning and one would imagine that what one was about to get if one ordered one of these would be a plate on which one might find

a) A fried egg - sunny side up, with the egg yolk still soft

b) Some rashers of bacon

c) A proper sausage

d) Some other optional goodies - hash browns, baked beans etc..

A "Full English Breakfast" might also include

Toast, Butter and Marmelade, Tea/Coffee, cornflakes

Did I get this at eat.co.uk?

No I didn't. Instead I got what they called a "Breakfast Muffin"

It was disgusting. And failed to match even a quarter of my expectations And bad value for money. I am never ever going to frequent that establishment again.

That makes at least two I am definitely never ever going to again, which also includes Subway
These places lie and cheat.

ah yesdeath by pizza the whole country is getting ripped off. Or is it simply that you don't like them, think they are a waste of money and choose to spend your money on something else.
This is not a rip off, it is choice. You choose not to have pizza whilst others obviously believe they are good value and and an enjoyable meal.
Everybody else is stupid, but you have seen the light "a pizza is a cheese and tomato open sandwhich, and don't think of it as anything else"
Well if you put it like that, it must be a rip off and we should stop eating them immediately.

And the most over-priced "sandwich" of them all

The pizza

that one-sided, Danish-style open sandwich, smorgasbordet, warmed up.

A pizza is simply and basically a cheese and tomato sandwich, and don't think of it as anything else.

sorry to join will in the gang-up on death by sandwich, but he does appear to be a sarny short of a err sandwich shop.

His comment "there are so many sandwich shops, because they make such a high margin of profit" is nonsense. Though I'd agree that generally in the catering industry GROSS profit is high.

Many sandwich shops breed competition, and effectively keeps the cost of a sandwich to a reasonable level. What you are suggesting is some sort of sandwich cartel? Maybe this is spread across the country and we will have to get watchdog to investigate.

Or it maybe the case that "death by sandwich" does not value the workers/owners of a sandwich shops as higly as he clearly regards himself. He clearly thinks he understands the cost of ingrediants but this is very small part of the business cost which he has chosen to ignore.

What does he mean by "no defined standards". The food industry is one of the most regulated in this over-regulated country. Maybe the ingrediants should be weighed and the percentages be decided, tomato- lettuce, chicken to mayo, and we should start having bread which does not have foreign names, lets just have white bread and standardise the price.
think we should setup a qango to sort this, need someone to head it up? Who could that be?

here here death by sandwich,

I will tell these people where to get off.
I will inform my landlord that I am reducing the rent of my premises as 'disappointed of preston' thinks my sarnies are expensive. I will then inform the local council that I am setting my own levy for business rates at what I deem to be a fair price. Thinking about it i'm gonna do the same with my council tax and rent payments at home. Can't believe its so simple. Then I'll return home to my semi by the sea and be greeted by kylie singing "i should be so lucky" whilst preparing the evening meal.

What is the weather like in gaga land?

Sandwich bar people, why aren't you fighting your end of the cause? Business rates too high? Rents too high? Tell the imposers of these where to get off. There's a surplus of available premises. These leeches are charging far too much for your premises. Move to a barrow in the street. Carry a basket round the offices.

Also I don't want mayo of any kind in any sandwich. It's disgusting.

I have to say that having enjoyed many salads in the last week I do not consider lettuce, cucumber etc as a cheap ingrediant. The cheapest lettuce I could find was 89p. So to get any amount of salad in a sandwich is a bonus.