High-end steak and chips for a tenner? Welcome to discount dining

[AtW]

“ Restaurateurs are hoping the scheme will boost a struggling sector. Hawksmoor, the high-end steak restaurant chain, said it received 5,500 bookings in six hours after it advertised the “best steak and chips in Britain” for a tenner (it reduced the cost of a 300g portion of rump steak and chips from £30 to £20 before applying the discount).”

High-end steak and chips for a tenner? Welcome to discount dining | Business | The Guardian

Rump stake is the best?

Surely rib eye

Unless it’s the best steak one can get for a tenner, with free chips

[DimPrawn]

Fillet, Sirloin, Ribeye

Rump is for arses.

[AtW]

“ A family of four are going to come out and have £40 knocked off that bill,” said Strauss. “That’s normally the type of thing restaurants do in January but this is the peak of the summer season and we are going to be full. There is a wave of optimism around something that seems to have no catches.”

Covid-19 - that’s the catch.

Going to a nice local next Thu (so no discount, but don’t care) ...