Jump to content
Visit out new Tradespeople Directory! ×

Brick House

fergusjackson

By fergusjackson
in Request a Tradesperson

Recommended Posts

worldwiser

worldwiser

Posted
Posted
Love what they've done. Really bright and airy and I thought very friendly staff. I would ask, could you not do a takeaway price on the sandwiches? They are fabulous, but I might be more inclined to come daily if they were more like 4.50 to take away rather than 6 which is pretty steep if you're not sitting down.
DulwichFox

DulwichFox

Posted
Posted

Had a look today.. Did not seem that bright to me... considering it is a beautiful sunny day..


Its still just a warehouse with a few wooden tables.. Seating for 15 people ???


Space for 30 - 40 buggies.. only 3-4 in when I look in.

Another Mummy Baby Creche caf? ?


DulwichFox

Bellenden Belle

Bellenden Belle

Posted
Posted

Oh dear. I love Brick House bread and I wanted to love this place.

But it left me cold. In fact I left without ordering and fled to Toasted.

The prices are just unrealistic. When it starts making Boulangerie Jade look reasonable you've got to question just how much retailers will push the East Dulwich market.


And yes there's room for buggies but a few mums nursing a coffee won't keep a place that size afloat.

Jeremy

Jeremy

Posted
Posted

Sounds like they have some teething issues with price and portion... hopefully they can be resolved. Would have thought ?5 for a sandwich on nice bread would be about right. And ?2.50-?3 for a bun or decent slice of cake.


Better to sell 100 sandwiches at ?5 each than 20 at ?6 each.

DulwichFox

DulwichFox

Posted
Posted

Jeremy Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> Sounds like they have some teething issues with

> price and portion... hopefully they can be

> resolved. Would have thought ?5 for a sandwich on

> nice bread would be about right. And ?2.50-?3 for

> a bun or decent slice of cake.

>

> Better to sell 100 sandwiches at ?5 each than 20

> at ?6 each.


Problem with that is, to make 100 sandwiches takes 5 time the staff hours than making 20.


Foxy

fergusjackson

fergusjackson

Posted
  • Author
Posted

We had made a conscious decision to try and avoid the East Dulwich Forum as we are aware what a negative place it can be, but we were tipped off that there have been some comments about our pricing, and we wanted to meet them head on.


In this day and age, when our high streets have been centralised, commoditised and globalised into oblivion, how do you judge the value of something? Yes our bread is several times more expensive than what you can buy in Tescos, or possibly even your local bakery chain if you have one, but take a moment to look at the ingredients and think about how the bread is made. Our bread is made using just three ingredients. Flour, water and salt. Each loaf is made over two days, all by hand, buy a group of people who really care about what they do. Compare this to your supermarket loaf which is produced by machines to generate maximum yield for the smallest cost and effort and is packed full of chemicals, improvers, sugar, salt and who knows what else to bulk it out. To me this seems more of a rip off than paying more for something that is what it is supposed to be.


It also seems strange that the same people who bemoan the decline of the high street also complain when people try to breathe a bit of life into it. Yes we are a business, and we want to make money so we can pay our rent, our staff and carry on doing what we love, but we are not being greedy by charging what we do. Our sandwiches are a very decent size, and packed full of great ingredients from (where possible) local businesses. Like our bread, these ingredients cost more than mass-manufactured, intensively farmed produce. We also don?t have the buying power of Pret or Sainsbury?s, and if we sold them cheaper, we would lose money and yet another business would have to close down. Although I guess our site would be the perfect size for a Tesco Metro.


The bottom line is that you can?t judge how small independent businesses operate against the prices of what has become the norm - multi nationals who centralaise and commodotise everything. Even Gail?s isn?t really a fair comparison. The majority of their products are made by a company called The Bread Factory in a massive facility in North London, and then shipped out to the stores each day. Again we would argue that a shop masquerading as a ?local bakery? that doesn?t really do much baking on site is more of a con than a ?6 sandwich.


If any one on here who wants to come in and talk to us about any of this, we really would be more than happy to do so. And maybe if we had the opportunity to talk through our processes, then our pricing would make more sense.


Many thanks.


Fergus & Sharmin

healey

healey

Posted
Posted

Went for lunch, very nice indeed. Of course this isn't a budget cafe, but the bread was quality stuff and the sarnies were large and tasty.


There is a contingent on the ED forum that resent those who are either young and "hipster" or those who choose to spend their money on an upmarket treat. There are venues to suit all budgets in East Dulwich.


Anyway, all the best with the bakery. I'll be going again.

Louisa

Louisa

Posted
Posted

I'll be sticking with Ayres thanks all the same. Good quality local indepedent bakery been around for years and an institution for people who have lived here all their lives. They do it all on site and dont charge the earth either. But we are all entitled to pick where we buy our stuff from and that's fair enough, I wish these people good luck, the demographic seems right for their pricing structure.


Louisa.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing
  • Advertise Here

  • Latest Discussions

    • Spartacus
      Rude Evri delivery in SE22

      By Spartacus · Posted

      I am sure our lovely Evri delivery team, who do a firkin hard job, take the time between drops to read the East Dulwich Forum 🤫
    • Dogkennelhillbilly
      Rude Evri delivery in SE22

      By Dogkennelhillbilly · Posted

      For every person like OP that moans their doorbell was rung and there was a knock on the door, there's someone else moaning that they didn't hear the delivery drivers. If you've ever done delivery work you'll know that loads of people's bells don't work. The delivery drivers probably goes to a hundred doors a day: press bell, knock door, drop package, move on. If you don't like delivery drivers, insist on delivery by Royal Mail where the workers have wages and a union - or just stop ordering shit online that's artificially cheap. But most of us (me included) don't want that
    • Angelina
      Rude Evri delivery in SE22

      By Angelina · Posted

      If someone comes to my house and bangs my door and slams my gate, I'd speak to them about it nicely and ask if they would please not do that. And then subsequently less nicely if they keep doing it, ending in reporting them.  We don't slam doors at home and I don't put up with that either. I can see us moving to a culture where we bribe drivers to be nice by tipping them, but we shouldn't have to. It's not necessary - does not matter if they are on minimum wage or not, or if society means that delivery services are outsourced or whatever reason anyone would like to concoct.     
    • livrobbo
      Roofing felt for shed

      By livrobbo · Posted

      We’ve got a gap on the roof of our shed that needs patching  don’t want to buy a huge roll so hoping someone has some leftover  happy to collect/reimburse 

East Dulwich Forum

Established in 2006, we are an online community discussion forum for people who live, work in and visit SE22.

Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...