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I feel like there's a lot of coverage about the cost of living crisis but nobody is talking about how fish & chip places have had the absolute balls to start charging $2-$2.50 EACH for dim sims and potato cakes. I'd love to see some data on how they justify those prices because I suspect it's just one of those "oh.. everyone else seems to be increasing their prices so I will too.. yay money" scenarios. This stuff is meant to be a cheap feed. The world just keeps getting worse.
I think they are trying to stop cheap as an option.
Looks like the prices at my old fish and chip shop I used to work at has gone up. $1.60 for a potato cake, steamed and fried dim sim. Pretty sure dimmies were $1 and potato cakes were .80cents.
$1.50 at Geelong station.
only to be consumed as a last resort
Take away is discretionary spending.
$1-20 potat caks at the charcoal chicken place on Scotchmer St over the road from Piedmontes. Not bad quality either - fresh, crispy and hot. Atlantic seafood on High St in Thornbury does a decent potat cak too but I haven't been past recently so don't have uptodate pricing.
$2.50 for a dimmy? 😮