At £1, is this the UK’s cheapest full English?
IT’S said to be Britain’s cheapest full English breakfast, at a modest £1.
And not surprisingly the fry-up – egg, sausage, bacon, tomato, beans, mushrooms, potato fritters and a round of toast – is a sizzling hit with customers, particularly since the price was cut from £1.99.
But if diners at Doncaster’s Number One cafe are not satisfied, owners Heather Smith and Carl Welsh offer even more.
For there are £2 and £3 options, with double or treble the eggs, bacon and sausages. And for the truly ravenous, the cafe even does a £5 option it calls the 5-4-3-2-1.
‘It has five sausages, four rashers of bacon, three eggs, two rostis [potato fritters] and one helping each of beans, mushrooms and tomatoes,’ said Mrs Smith, adding: ‘It’s quite popular with builders.’
Drinks are extra but a pot of tea is only £1.40 and a coffee £1.60.
Despite the generous portion size, Mrs Smith and Mr Welsh say they still turn a profit of 20p to 30p an order by shopping around for the cheapest ingredients.
The business partners opened at the start of the year in a former fish and chip shop, and initially sold breakfasts from £1.99. But since they dropped the price three weeks ago, demand has been insatiable. Yesterday there was even a queue outside when they opened at 8.30am.
They had served 200 people and sold out of fried breakfasts by 12.30pm – 90 minutes before their normal closing time.
Mrs Smith, 53, who used to run a cake shop and still makes celebration cakes to order, said: ‘We just believe in charging a fair price. Both of us have had kids and we know how much things cost.’
The cafe seats 35 customers but the owners are looking to expand to accommodate up to 80 more. ‘We’re bracing ourselves for even bigger demand,’ said Mr Welsh, 42.