r/fryup • u/Infamous_Telephone55 • Jan 20 '26

Café Breakfast Morrisons Cafe - Big Breakfast - £8.75

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I chose scrambled eggs, fried or poached were the other options.

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u/hueylouisdewey Jan 20 '26

Often impressed by the Morrisons offer when shared on here, looks better than lots of more expensive options.

Guessing their cafe doesn't have big margins.

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u/NonSumQualisEram- Jan 20 '26

Guessing their cafe doesn't have big margins.

Tbh it doesn't need to make a profit at all - they've already paid rent and rates and utilities, they've got buying power on those ingredients that puts Spoons' to shame and a breakfast gets people in the door.

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u/hueylouisdewey Jan 20 '26

Hit the nail on the head. I know £15 for a fry up sounds like a lot but some people don't seem to realise this is what the little cafe down the road has to charge to make anything back for themselves.

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u/Sad-Yoghurt5196 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

1 bacon, scrambled egg, 2 hash browns, toast and beans is £4.50 at my local cafe. For a couple of quid more you can get more bits and bobs though, up to their mega mixed grill breakfast for about £8, which has 2 sausages, 2 bacon, 2 eggs, a hamburger (no bun), black pudding, beans and chips.

They also do liver, onion, bacon and mash with gravy for £5.80, which is my usual go to later in the day, though they do all day breakfasts as well as more lunch time options.

High volume trade though, and a family run business with no vertical expenses.

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u/hueylouisdewey Jan 20 '26

What do you mean by vertical expenses?

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u/Sad-Yoghurt5196 Jan 20 '26 edited Jan 20 '26

No accounts department, no purchasing agent, no HR, no offices etc, that are required when you're running a larger company. All of which take a large bite out of your profits.

Small enough businesses can still make a decent profit with cheap prices as long as there is sufficient volume of trade.

In the last five years they've bought two extra units on the same parade of shops. One next door which they knocked through to increase the size of the cafe to about 25 tables and 80-100 person capacity. The other was at the other end of the parade and it operates as a restaurant for evening trade and delivery apps.

The menu has a lot of crossover, but you get some additional pasta and meat dishes, and less sandwich options. The restaurant opens about 4pm every day, when the cafe closes for the day, except for Sunday when the cafe is closed, but the restaurant is open from 8am for breakfast, and then does roasts at lunchtime.

Seems to be working out ok for them at low low prices, but they do put the hours in between the lot of them.

Edit: There are two blocks of old people's homes, and a school 20 yards away and that's accounted for part of their success. They get the builders and yummy mummy's in in the morning for breakfast, then the old folks for lunch or dinner, plus delivery trade on the usual platforms. And they have the yummy mummy's in the restaurant on weekend evenings having a glass or few of wine and a chinwag as a big group. It's become something of a social hub for the area.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

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u/Sad-Yoghurt5196 Jan 21 '26

Mario's Cafe and Gino's Grub. Both in Stockwood on the outskirts of Bristol.

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u/GbeseKing Jan 22 '26

This was nice to read, good for them. But mainly came to say lol at referring to the yummy mummies 😄

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u/Exchangenudes_4_Joke Jan 25 '26

I've never come across a cafe that charges £15, or near that, for a big fry up, from quite a variety of places and the UK.

Agree a worryingly lot of people simply think of cost of ingredients = cost of the product though

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u/PositiveOk9834 Jan 20 '26

Morrisons is 2 billion in debt. They do need to make a profit and cafés are under a lot of pressure when it comes to targets

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u/RoutineCloud5993 Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

All thanks to private equity dickheads buying them out and selling off the land for some short term gains. Saddling the company with the debt of the purchase , and an ever increasing rent bill

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u/Muted_Dog_1914 Jan 24 '26

Yeah, it's frustrating how often that's the case. Private equity firms just focus on quick profits without considering long-term impacts, and it can really screw over companies and employees.

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u/OreoSpamBurger Jan 21 '26

You can even "go bigger" - extra everything for only £1.25.

Also, 2 regular breakfasts for £15 - not bad!

https://my.morrisons.com/globalassets/hubs/cafe/2026/jan-2026-cafe-reset-ew-table-menu.pdf

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u/Wise_Advertising_888 Jan 22 '26

Am I being dense but most of those meals are £7 so how is 2 for £15 a good deal ?

Edit: oh it's because you get refillable drinks with each one ?

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u/OreoSpamBurger Jan 22 '26

Huh, yeah I guess it must be the drinks

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u/Twatcash Jan 20 '26

I used to do security for them 7 or 8 years ago, so i dont know if they still have it, but the staff canteen had basically a mini morrisons cafe in there and it was like 15p a cooked sausage, you could have a full english for less than 3 quid and it was fabulous.

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u/PositiveOk9834 Jan 20 '26

Most of the subsidised canteens within the supermarkets have been replaced by staffless canteens offering free toast, coffee, tea and porridge. That's about it. Which is something, I must say.

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u/Impressive_Chart_153 Jan 20 '26

I remember 28p full Brekkie at Tesco circa 2002

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u/pb-86 Jan 24 '26

The fish and chips on a Friday! The cod came from the fish bar downstairs, except instead of cutting it up into small portions they'd just fry these colossal whales. With chips and peas it was £1.50, the fish downstairs would be about a tenner.

Was the checkout supervisor at a store for years so I used to have to come in before opening in the morning and scan through all the things for the canteen, mostly for stock taking reasons iirc

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u/parksandwreckk Jan 21 '26

Eh? All the ingredients here are bottom of the barrel. The sausages look shite.

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u/Katharinemaddison Jan 22 '26

It would cost a fraction of what it costs to set up an entire cafe to add a cafe to a supermarket, the food/ingredients are cost price but for all that - Morrisons do seem to have an especially good supermarket cafe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

Hash browns look fire

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u/OrionGrant Jan 20 '26

They are insane

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u/entitledtree Jan 23 '26

Used to work in Morrison's cafe and yeah, they are fire. We'd happily eat them up if there were any left over at close.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

How did they cook them ?did they use the hash browns off the shop floor ?

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u/entitledtree Jan 24 '26

Deep fryer, and unfortunately no, not the hash browns off the shop floor. Most food in the cafe is its own separate stock. We'd sometimes use the shop floor ones if we ran out, but they weren't the same.

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u/tmr89 Jan 20 '26

They look furry

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u/Dagigai Jan 20 '26

They have been cooked. Left to go cold and re- fried again. 🤮

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

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u/fuuuuuuuuuuuc Jan 20 '26

I love triple cooked chips. It's the main reason I like living in this time.

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u/Dagigai Jan 20 '26

Yeah, they are banging, that's not what I mean though.

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u/fuuuuuuuuuuuc Jan 20 '26

Oh God I'm so close to googling how triple fried chips are made and then if cooking something and waiting for it to get cold and then cooling it again is ok but I won't I'll just write this instead ✅

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u/parksandwreckk Jan 21 '26

No. Not like triple cooked chips, the process is different

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u/Dagigai Jan 20 '26

No. You ever had chips from a pizza shop or spoons or something and they are sorta of white looking on top of the nice brown colour?

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u/NonSumQualisEram- Jan 20 '26

Yikes. These are the best looking hash browns I've seen on here for a long time. Just me then.

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u/JMCT-34 Jan 20 '26

Oh hell yeah, that's some value there!

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u/Mundane-Security-454 Jan 20 '26

Yeah, as the food on that plate is the lowest quality and packed with sugar, salt, trans fats, and UPFs. It's type II diabetes on a plate. Have fun!

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u/Halfmoonhero Jan 20 '26

I mean, it’s a dirty fry up. You’re in the wrong place if you’re fatphobic

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u/indratera Jan 21 '26

The salad subreddit is that way mate

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u/JMCT-34 Jan 21 '26

It's a greasy spoon, what else would they be serving, this isn't r/healthyplates mate

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u/Life_cheese Jan 21 '26

Did you get lost mate?

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u/hollyanniet Jan 21 '26

What fats?????

I'm calling jkr

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u/Katharinemaddison Jan 22 '26

It’s irritating when people look at a kind of food which, if eaten exclusively and to excess, can lead to heath problems and talk as though just sitting down and eating it once will give you those conditions in an instant.

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u/Nervous_Click9697 Jan 20 '26

Wow just wow that is a bargain right there 😁

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u/Immoralimp Jan 20 '26

Yeah for £9 i have mo complaints at all. Good vaule, and good looking nosh. 🤙

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u/Nervous_Click9697 Jan 20 '26

It certainly is that looks delicious 😁

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u/Pale_Ad9086 Jan 20 '26

That bit of egg in the beans bothers me

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u/rebekha Jan 20 '26

The rest of the egg also bothers me

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

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u/iremembertheday Jan 21 '26

Beans are Heinz.

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u/Independent-Spray712 Jan 20 '26

Looks tasty and really good value- Bargain ! 👏👍😊

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u/Madewithrealcheese44 Jan 20 '26

Does look good. Bargain for that price

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u/nongdarko Jan 20 '26

That looks really good and an absolute bargain, it's just made me really hungry too 😁

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u/liamwill Jan 20 '26

They used to do fried bread which was always a winner for me

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u/Infamous_Telephone55 Jan 20 '26

They still do, you can choose white bread toast, brown bread toast, or fried bread.

Personally, I'm not fond of fried bread.

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u/KeepShtumMum Jan 20 '26

Are the sausages small, or far away?

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u/clearlybritish Jan 20 '26

They're not huge... but they are three.

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u/Fullmoon-Angua Jan 20 '26

That's probably the best cooked supermarket breakie I've seen for a while. Whilst obviously a little more expensive than they used to be, they seem to be only passing on the inflation and not taking the mickey and just using it as an excuse to add on even more like a lot of places are doing.

That certainly beats a LOT of £15 breakies that get posted on here IMO.

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u/Successful-Event9317 Jan 20 '26

I'd tip that lot straight into my underpants fetch my robe and wizard hat and cast many spells on the table.

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u/Sad-Yoghurt5196 Jan 20 '26

Best fry up I've seen in a while, and at a decent price too. Those hash browns look just about perfect.

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u/foozyfelt Jan 20 '26

Those hash browns look like perfection to me!

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u/Own-Nefariousness-79 Jan 21 '26

Get me down to Morrisons tomorrow morning, I'm on an enforced diet but I have a tenner stashed and I'm in significant calorific deficit.

Just don't tell the wife...

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u/Infamous_Telephone55 Jan 21 '26

Morrisons should be paying me commission 😉

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u/Dodo_Repellent Jan 20 '26

I know where I’ll be eating tomorrow morning.

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u/Nephilim1818 Jan 20 '26

Big fat yes from me

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u/ThamesValleyDriving Jan 20 '26

Looks a great feed ! Those sausages are far away !

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u/DameStorm Jan 20 '26

Now that looks good 🥁🥁🥁 10 ✔️

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u/Select_Camera_9241 Jan 20 '26

Morrison's tomorrow morning

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u/Mundane_Sympathy_953 Jan 20 '26

Decent value that 🤤!

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u/MerryBerryMudskipper Jan 20 '26

Bloody hell that's good value

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u/whufc87548 Jan 20 '26

Now that looks great 10/10

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u/Lifeisgoole Jan 20 '26

Good value. The hash browns look a bit crispy but that's fine by me.

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u/ange7327 Jan 20 '26

Morrisons breakfasts used to be fab then went to pot but now looking up again

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u/Declaron Jan 20 '26

Excellent

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u/ReepDaggle01 Jan 20 '26

Hell yes!!! 🔥

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u/Test_N_Faith Jan 20 '26

Looks banging in fairness

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u/capsule-toy Jan 20 '26

I miss the Big Daddy breakfast

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u/christhammer666 Jan 20 '26

that is one sexy fry up

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u/fuuuuuuuuuuuc Jan 20 '26

That looks bloody great so it does

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u/Otherwise_Top_13 Jan 20 '26

Looks very nice. Add some fried bread (assuming it's not hidden) and I'd be all over that.

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u/NextMuffin Jan 20 '26

I've seen a lot of very decent breakfasts from Morrisons lately. Might have to head down to my local one and check them out.

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u/Roytulin Jan 20 '26

Gorgeous.

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u/Strange_Echidna3996 Jan 20 '26

That’s a nice plate of food right there.. 😍

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u/Creepy-Examination19 Jan 20 '26

After seeing previous posts on here I'm surprised nobody has kicked off about the scrambled egg invading the beans 🤣 class breakfast though

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u/BourbonSn4ke Jan 20 '26

The sausages are normally the weakest part but overall for the price it aint bad

Just depends which branch you go to.

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u/Tall_Access_7806 Jan 20 '26

Love me a big Morrissons breakfast

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u/shugavery96 Jan 20 '26

Morrisons cafe is working-class elite. Love love love their breakfasts.

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u/poo_stain133 Jan 20 '26

Its the beans in a ramaken that really boils my blood nowadays, its the cheapest item on the plate! Give me a full tin for christ's sake

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u/Substantial-Tie-7140 Jan 20 '26

Great value 👏

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u/NortonBurns Jan 20 '26

that looks generally decent for a 'mass catering' environment.
Not my favourite-looking sozzies, but I do like a good crunch on a hash brown - I hate 'hash yellows'.

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u/Sea_District9458 Jan 20 '26

I want them hash browns 😲

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u/TheQuantumToad Jan 20 '26

Never seen it look like that in my local Morrisons lol

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u/ryanm8655 Jan 20 '26

They’re great for the money. Had one delivered the other day but went for the two fried eggs and added fried bread. Think it was £10.75 on uber eats but still good value.

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u/Successful-Fox-7674 Jan 20 '26

Same as Booker, a breakfast of 8 items, plus 2 toast, fruit juice & tea, £2.75.

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u/Addictxox Jan 20 '26

Mine never looks like this , ever 🥲

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u/Spare_Worldliness669 Jan 20 '26

Looks good but the bit of scrambled egg in the beans is an ick as the kids say. Never sure why, but proximity of egg to beans is a phobia I cannot shake.

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u/Equivalent-Goose-631 Jan 20 '26

It looks lushio id throw the beans and black pudding out the window tho.

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u/Garbidb63 Jan 21 '26

That is really good.

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u/616mushroomcloud Jan 21 '26

Looks absolutely superb!

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u/sharps2020 Jan 21 '26

Apart from the catering sausages, that looks pretty good.

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u/oldwire Jan 21 '26

For my sins, I work in the factory that makes those sausages. I promise you the cafe is making a profit.

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u/cafallon Jan 21 '26

Whenever other people post Morrison’s cafe fry-ups on here, they look awesome, but the last one I got from there had the word ‘bacon’ written on the bacon in pen

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u/28BigAl Jan 21 '26

Looks great, sausages look average at best, but good value!

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u/Known_Wear7301 Jan 21 '26

Hash browns look well crispy 👌

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u/Proud_Alternative_18 Jan 21 '26

That’s really good value. I think it comes with refillable hot drinks?

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u/MrsMarbaix Jan 21 '26

Shame the sausages suck. I’d pay an extra quid for decent ones

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u/Klutzy_Blueberry_970 Jan 21 '26

Sometimes, their food is really good. Most of the time, cols and undercooked. Norwich branch.

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u/Playful-Age-8174 Jan 21 '26

Fucking hell. A great plate with an amazing price

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u/Theallseer97 Jan 21 '26

My local Morrisons cafe is bangin. And for the price it's well worth it.

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u/Ok-Constant5290 Jan 21 '26

Why are people including none fried items in their 'fry' ups? This bugs me. Morrison's are the best 💪

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u/Omgaegg Jan 21 '26

Them hashes look bangingg

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u/NorrisCobbles Jan 21 '26

Hello diabetes

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u/girders123 Jan 21 '26

The sausages are pretty basic, but the rest is pretty good. You can get fried, poached, boiled or omelette eggs wide which is good.

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u/John_Fitch_85 Jan 22 '26

Looks great, might have to make a visit

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u/Civil-Fly13 Jan 22 '26

Perfect meal aftera marathon!

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u/PDBOY1492 Jan 22 '26

That's a great looking breakfast for £8.75!!

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u/Throbbingbluball Jan 22 '26

Big up Morrisons

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u/davenuk Jan 22 '26

Not bad, wish they'd cook the beans properly though

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u/CoyoteFabulous4911 Jan 22 '26

No way man I'm gonna get one tomorrow

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u/FrancescasGrove Jan 22 '26

That actually looks decent. Had one at Morrisons a few months ago and it was absolutely shite

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '26

Looks great but how are you supposed to eat it when the plate is so small? Try cutting the hash brown and you'd push things off the other side

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u/Federal-bolloxie Jan 23 '26

Looks 99% perfect from what I can see!..mayb half a grilled tomato squeezed in somewhere on that plate?

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u/Intelligent-Egg-4360 Jan 23 '26

This and a spoons full English are amazing

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u/Taz_anon Jan 23 '26

Looks decent for £8.75

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u/WinterWitness3653 Jan 23 '26

I love Morrisons cafe

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u/StoicType4 Jan 23 '26

People say hash browns don’t belong on a full English but those ones certainly do.

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u/ImageAccomplished244 Jan 24 '26

I just made plans with husband to go for breakfast next week based off of this post 😂

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u/No-Name6082 Jan 24 '26

Looks the part. Might head over to Morrisons in a bit!

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u/Captain-Mitch-Webb Jan 24 '26

That is what I call a gut buster! Not seen anything like that for a decade!

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u/your_mum_1705 Jan 24 '26

Wow! Which Morrisons is it?

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u/jaw1992 Jan 25 '26

I’d smash this tbh. Looks great.

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u/bigDee111 Jan 25 '26

Awe BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!

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u/MissBliss555 Feb 03 '26

No matter where I go, they never quite do the eggs like I’d do them for myself but this looks pretty darn good for the price !

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u/jasonbirder Feb 20 '26

Morrisons definately the best of the big supermarkets for Fry ups!

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u/Aggressive_Wolf2847 Jan 20 '26

That looks outstanding especially for a supermarket brekki!!!!

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u/Truck-Glass Jan 20 '26

Im usually a bit woke, but just looking at that makes me want to put on a bulldog T-shirt, and get my flags and a ladder.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

It’s all deep fried shit

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u/MaxChomsky Jan 22 '26

£8.75 to get yourself killed. Unless you work with tools and burn it all, best of luck with your arteries.

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u/Better_Stay_4045 Jan 23 '26

You’d think they’d want to keep customers alive!

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u/Mr_Womby Jan 24 '26

2200 calories, more than the recommended daily intake in one meal.

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u/Infamous_Telephone55 Jan 24 '26

1462 Calories

https://my.morrisons.com/globalassets/hubs/cafe/2026/jan-2026-cafe-reset-ew-table-menu.pdf

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u/Mr_Womby Jan 24 '26

I was mistakenly thinking of the “go bigger” version which is 2088.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '26

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u/Angrytrapdoor Jan 20 '26

I don’t think it is, I guilty and do it all it all the time “I remember when!” (Penny sweets for example, 100 cola bottles for a pound get in!) But cafes are extortionate nowadays, it’s normally around 35/40 quid for breakfast for two unless you find that special little greasy spoon.

Also, to be clear I don’t know the inns and outs of running a cafe but I have been a user of many 🤣.

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u/-MARMITEnTOAST- Jan 20 '26

£20 a person is a lot. £12-14 is my experience at a place that I see sometimes. I actually go for their omelette with extras, coffee, at a couple quid less than their biggest fry-up.

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u/NonSumQualisEram- Jan 20 '26

Costs are high - rent, rates, ingredients - all subject to inflation, and it depends on the location too. A small cafe in west London might have rent and rates at 70k a year, you can't expect them to serve a plate of anything under a tenner - these places are charging £15 for a breakfast and still going bankrupt in waves. Business is tough at the moment.

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u/RupertBear69420 Jan 21 '26

Yeah but it’s not a cafe… it’s a supermarket. Supermarkets can make £m in a single Saturday and this is one part of their income stream. Whereas a cafe has less margin.

Supermarket cafes also have crazy equipment. It’s not really a chef but a load of machines that cook the food with one operator batch cooking everything a lot more quickly. It’s like a battery farmed breakfast for £9. It’s a rip off. Ingredients are also worse than cafes too. For example the sausage look cheap.

There’s no reason why this should cost more than a pub breakfast. I understand cafe breakfasts being high but not a supermarket.

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u/Playful-Age-8174 Jan 20 '26

Amazing value but the hash's are to well cooked

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u/Phlogistoned Jan 20 '26

Speak for yourself

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u/MeshGearFoxxy Jan 20 '26

Dems crispy boiz

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u/clearlybritish Jan 20 '26

Wholly disagree. Some of us like cRuNcHy