FURIOUS CUSTOMER UNLEASHES ON CAFé OVER IT'S 'BASIC' AVO ON TOAST
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- Experts tell customers to 'vote with their feet'
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A customer has slammed a café over the price of it's avocado on toast, calling it 'basic'.
The Hervey Bay Boat Club in Queensland recently served up the dish to a member, who paid $14.90 for what was described on the menu as 'smashed avocado served on toasted sourdough'.
The café charges non-members $16.90 for exactly the same meal.
The unhappy diner shared a photo on Facebook which shows two slices of white toast laid out on a plate next to a tiny pot of avocado and a slice of lemon.
'Wow... avocado on toast for $14.90,' the customer said. 'I have never seen such a basic version at any other café.
Social media uses were scathing after seeing the photo online, including one who said they had visited the Boat Club and paid $38 for 'a bit of meat on mash'.
'Pretty poor, just gouging there,' one person wrote.
'They should be ashamed to charge those prices, let alone serve something so pathetic,' another said.
Shoppers can purchase a similar loaf of bread from a supermarket for as little as $2.40, while avocados are currently retailing for around $1.20 each.
Roberta Crouch, a retail expert from the University of the Sunshine coast, said customers have every right to expect quality for what they're paying for, but conceded that café owners are struggling to cope with cost of living pressures.
'The cost around that avocado on toast, is not just for the avocado on toast. It's the rent, it's the rates and taxes, it's the electricity, it's their insurance, and it's their wages,' she told Yahoo Finance.
'People just like to know where the $16.90 is going. And I think small businesses, especially little restaurants and sole traders, they’re making tough decisions these days based on what they think their revenue would be, versus what they might have to charge.
'So it's up to consumers to vote with their feet a bit more often. To demand some quality for what they're getting.'
Daily Mail Australia reached out to the Hervey Bay Boat Club for comment.
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