Today I went to a Toby Carvery for breakfast, all you can eat,3.99.Then on top of that refillable coffee.1.50.Excellent quality and very tasty.
If a pub can do this why does a truck stop feel the need to charge at least 2 quid more for a very limited amount of usually very greasy, tasteless dross with tea/coffee that resembles anti-freeze.
They don’t do fried bread though I agree it is fantastic value though
3 reasons top eh my head.
Buying power, just a quick search shows Toby carvey is part of Mitchell’s and butlers plc who run 1600 pubs,bars and restaurants in the uk. So they can buy ingredients for relative peanuts compared to a truckstop.
Space, a Toby cavery including car park could maybe accommodate 3-4 lorries where as a truck park is expected to accommodate 30+ so they need to buy/rent more land than Toby carvery.
Customers, your average Toby cavery must have 60-70 families a day probably even more, where as a truck park has maybe 100 fellas throughout the day and only about 50% of them spend any sort of dosh on food.
I don’t see how anyone could make money out of running a truckstop, the ones that do are some sort of magicians!
Yeah but if the food was better it would probably be 75% not 50.
The evening meals take some beating, I ate at the Dundee one about a year ago, £6.50 for the Carvery, choice of two meats, choice of three for £7.50.
Yep, when i did nights out if there was a Toby within walking distance of where i could park, thats where i’d plant meself for a quiet pint a fine dinner and an hour or two reading a good book.
Didn’t know they did breakfasts now.
Many of the large chain hotels do all you can eat breafast for a set price ;Days Inn.
Holiday Inn.
Travelodge.
Choice of hot or continental style croissants and bread and jams.
Solstice services at Amesbury has a hotel for that on the A303.
The new Msa Nortbound on the M5, will be homemade cooking.
Just past Michael Wood Msa.
Avon Lodge truckstop Avonmouth is many choices of set items.
Tebay is very good.Real sausages.
Mcdonalds is ok for breky.
merc0447:
3 reasons top eh my head.Buying power, just a quick search shows Toby carvey is part of Mitchell’s and butlers plc who run 1600 pubs,bars and restaurants in the uk. So they can buy ingredients for relative peanuts compared to a truckstop.
Space, a Toby cavery including car park could maybe accommodate 3-4 lorries where as a truck park is expected to accommodate 30+ so they need to buy/rent more land than Toby carvery.
Customers, your average Toby cavery must have 60-70 families a day probably even more, where as a truck park has maybe 100 fellas throughout the day and only about 50% of them spend any sort of dosh on food.
I don’t see how anyone could make money out of running a truckstop, the ones that do are some sort of magicians!
Completely agree, the economics of running a large chain like a Toby Carvery are totally different to the economics of running a truckstop.
Juddian:
Yep, when i did nights out if there was a Toby within walking distance of where i could park, thats where i’d plant meself for a quiet pint a fine dinner and an hour or two reading a good book.Didn’t know they did breakfasts now.
Yeah they do mate, the good thing is you can chuck on as much bacon and sausage as you want unlike with the Carvery where they limit you to how much meat you can have.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Juddian:
Yep, when i did nights out if there was a Toby within walking distance of where i could park, thats where i’d plant meself for a quiet pint a fine dinner and an hour or two reading a good book.Didn’t know they did breakfasts now.
Yeah they do mate, the good thing is you can chuck on as much bacon and sausage as you want unlike with the Carvery where they limit you to how much meat you can have.
Make hay while it shines! It’ll soon go up when they realise who their main breakfast customers are! All you can eat means locusts arrive when they suss it out and it soon disappears.
Well it’s been on the go for at least a couple of years now & it’s always full at mine, I was there this morning as I don’t start until 1600 today. I should just about fit behind the wheel by then.