North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

Trussflation has taken a couple of years to work through. Many mortgages are so much more expensive and households may be able to absorb costs for a while, but persistent higher rates take a toll.

Paying £17 for a pizza and £7.45 for a beer in the example illustrates the cost problem.

With heating oil going up by 140%, many rural families will be feeling the pinch.

 

I also read that this morning and it's a hard dose of reality. £17 for a pizza!! My wife was shocked.
Here in our local pizzeria we get a multi topping pizza, two beers and dessert for that price.
I'd love to take the family for days out in the UK, but we really can't afford it.
I don't think it will be only the NYMR that feels the effect.

 

I notice it didn't stop one of the families buying beer and wine with their meal (or perhaps they just figure, since someone else if paying . . . )

 

Seems to be around average price for a Pizza it seems having had a quick look at both Swanage and Wareham. As my wife is now dairy intolerant and most Pizza places only offer goats cheese (which she hates) as an option something we never do these days.
£7.45 for a beer looked quite competitive for one place I looked at.

 

The general point is I am sure well made though I noted they went to Pizza Express, which in my experience has become quite expensive for what it is - there are other mid-market pizzarias that are rather cheaper, particularly if you sign up with a loyalty programme. We went to Zizzi the other day and two adults, two children, with drinks, was about £74 including a tip, which is rather more reasonable than the claimed £174.

(I also note that they went out with kids but seemed to have purchased separate starter / main / desert for their kids - most of those restaurants do a kids menu that would have been much cheaper; for Pizza Express it is £8.50 per child to get what appears to have instead cost them about £13 for one child; and the other has apparently had an adult pizza).

Tom

 

They're only on the menu (which means they have to be stocked, requiring storage space - overhead - as well as prior purchase, so they can be served when ordered) because there is demand. So there must be demand.

Noel

 

As a family we enjoy eating out, and we do eat out when we can... but we're definitely doing it less than we were 2-3 years ago, and the cost is a large part of that. It's not just 'can't justify the cost', it's that on top of the increase in the regular food shopping, council tax, utilities, fuel and insurance for the car and all the other nonsense modern life requires us to pay for. And we're lucky, having fixed our mortgage not long before Truss and her infamous budget. I'd class us as 'middle income' and honestly, I don't know how lower income families are coping.

 

My local sells its pizzas at £12-13 depending on what and a pint of bitter at £4.20. £7.50 for a pint is for down south.

 

If you ask me, £12-13 for a thin bread crust with a smear of tomato paste, a bit of grated cheese and some thinly sliced salami on top is still rather a lot! Even a portion of fish & chips doesn't normally cost that much. The bitter at £4.20/pint sounds reasonable, though!

 

Has there been any physical work carried out in supporting the bridge at Grosmont?

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