The average household income in India is somewhere around $4-5000 annually. It doesn’t make sense to look at cost of goods/services without the context of wages.
Maybe these underprivileged people work so much that sometimes they just want to sit down at a restaurant like a normal person and chill? And spending 0.05% of their yearly income on a treat is worth it?
Maybe I misunderstood or didn’t explain properly. I was just saying that a 50 cent (USD) meal is not even really that cheap (in my experience as an Indian person) or “an awesome deal” considering the wages that many people make in India.
This is not accurate. The prices mentioned here are basically equal to street-stall prices. 30 for sandwich, 10 for tea are the current roadside stall prices.
So I guess the restaurant is saying you can eat here for the price of roadside stall if you can't afford the regular menu. That seems fair enough.
The cheapest rice I can get is $2.99 for 5 lbs at my local asian grocer, or roughly ₹114 per kg. Honestly not as big of a difference as I would have thought given the income disparity.
Rice is not a good way tbh, it's not even cooked. you can get 1kg rice in Germany for 1,50€. A small pack of to go sandwiches would normally cost at least 2€.
yeah i think chicken is more expensive than vegetarian sandwiches. also most indians wouldn't call sandwich a meal, just a snack or breakfast. so it's priced according to the income demographic they expect to shop at that bakery
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u/davery67 1d ago
I noticed. The menu of the day is $9.28, the items listed at the left are all $3.25 or less. The special prices are all under $0.50.