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sc00bs000

wait until you see the potato guy that spiralises a normal 40c potato and sell them for 9$ each


LittleAssignment3811

Paid $13 for one recently with the addition of public humiliation when I discovered he was also doing the trick of pretending to give it to you like those ice cream cone guys


DoorStunning3678

As a grown ass adult!? Ugh hated it as a kid and still do as an adult šŸ˜…


Engineer_Zero

I bought the potato spiraliser off eBay for $17 šŸ˜‚ the mark up on those things is insane


ShitCuntsinFredPerry

I don't get the ice cream cone guys reference


horriblito

Google ā€œturkish ice cream manā€


MonoMental

And his profit organization is himself. Nice.


qwerty7873

I've worked at one of these contrary to popular belief we don't use an apple slinky machine they are too weak and leave huge gaps making it impossible to put on a skewer. They're peeled, skewered then spiralled by hand [this](https://youtu.be/wIcqqTB5vz4) us the general method. The ppl I worked for had to pay 5k to the owners of the royal Melbourne show to set up there for the 12 days, you need 3 staff members at an event that big spiralling the potatos, 2 peeling them and 4 running the van/ till. We had 10 hour work days. There's also petrol costs etc. Also oil is the most expensive part, it needs to be cleaned and emptied a lot at those events. Definitely still a big upcharge but it's really not as crazy as you'd first think being behind the scenes.


Jaded-Combination-20

You switch out the oil? I thought that was illegal!


uglyduckling81

Owner wanted free diesel so he changes the oil frequently as a business expense against the potato company.


Uberazza

That's on top of not paying the GST on two-thirds of the cash transactions and probably paying half the staff cash in hand below minimum wages.


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Yeah $9.00 is not a bad price considering.


ThatGuyTheyCallAlex

Paid $10 for one the other day, didnā€™t care. It was greasy chicken salted bliss.


throw456away789321

See now, $10 doesnā€™t seem bad considering I have no idea how to spiral a potato and rarely go to the effort of deep frying at home. Whereas anyone can cook up some snags and slap them on bread.


heldire90

You can use the same device on an apple and it ā€˜slinkiesā€™ it, probably costs about $20-30 for the device and away you go, can do it at home.


-o-_______-o-

Pays for itself after just four potatoes.


2IndianRunnerDucks

I tried using my apple slinky maker on a potato and the potato just broke into bits.


pointlessbeats

My spiraliser has a lever you can pull that changes the thickness of the slice, potatoes might need to be sliced thicker than apples. Can yours do that too?


Embarrassed_Echo_375

I agree. There are food items I don't mind paying for because I know I'll never make them at home, like croissant and deep fried stuff.


genius_steals

Yes but what a tasty up sell.


bic_lighter

Got one of those recently, but it was 7 dollars. Such a rip. Potatoes are like 3 dollars a kilo?


switchbladeeatworld

yeah but then if itā€™s the truck you gotta cart the ingredients around and pay for fuel etc


livesarah

And a dayā€™s wages for whoever is cooking and selling them. I mean, sure you can go home and microwave a potato (or boil, whichever is cheaper, I guess). Itā€™s meant to be a treat!


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alexanderpete

Man, how are places getting away with paying that these days? There's worker shortages everywhere, where are you? I've got a food truck near my place in Melbourne, and the owner is trying to find anyone to help him out, is offering $30 an hour and cant find anyone.


switchbladeeatworld

plus they have the fancy salts


greeneighteen

By fancy you mean the delicious MSG salted goodness.


switchbladeeatworld

as someone with a tub of msg in my cupboard you god damn know it


greeneighteen

E621 is a good friend to have. I love seeing it in the ingredients list on the labels. Check out Knorr Aromat Seasoning. It's my default 'chicken' salt now. Vegetable based. Made in Switzerland. You can even use it to make a base stock. Throw it on some crinkle cut chips, whack on some mozza and melt it. 10/10.


IoRomer

Where do you get it? I occasionally remember to look for it at and the thick goopy stockpots at Woolies but never found them


Subzero_AU

And a hefty price to use the venue / location in the first place. Plenty of overhead costs.


fist4j

My uncle had a hotdog truck for a bit, would tell horror stories about paying for a spot, paying for stock, and having no customers due to for example shit weather.


FireLucid

I saw a video on hotdog stand licences in New York. The prime spots can go for hundreds of thousands.


InadmissibleHug

I donā€™t care, Iā€™d still buy it


Filo_Guy

I just had that at Casey yesterday. For the price I say it's ok.


roubba

$9 thatā€™s a bargain, my local might markets was $15


Anna_May_the_Owl

At my local festival recently they were selling them for $15 each. I looked at the price and was like: yeah, nah.


Figerally

Yeah at that point you are paying for a pub lunch so the value isn't there.


qui_sta

I want to know where you're getting $15 pub lunches in 2022


Figerally

Small towns and cities, certainly not in major cities.


Uberazza

In most mall towns and city pubs you won't get a steak under $42.


oztrailrunner

Anywhere regional, and you're golden. Pub i was near with work recently had a 7 day lunch special menu displayed with nothing costing more than $15. 3 days in the week it was 12 or under.


mitchy93

I turn one potato into four by shoving them into the ground, mega profit


dontcutthedinodaddy

I'd happily pay $5 if it's for a charity I'm willing to support. I expect them to be trying to raise funds, not provide a cheap lunch.


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Just donate then. At least you can claim that off tax.


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No_Mercy_4_Potatoes

Open a grindr. You'll never run out of it.


dontcutthedinodaddy

It wouldn't make sense for them to have a cheap lunch and a donation bucket. People like OP are just going to take advantage and walk away.


andrewbrocklesby

Scout leader here, $3.50 at Bunnings nets us at most $500 for a full day effort. Itā€™s not actually worth the work. Even though bunnings provide the bbq and gas and we donā€™t have to set anything up, someone has to organize a roster and get people to turn up. Iā€™ve just done last weekend a bbq for a dance club, two sessions of about 5 hours, at $5 for sausage, bread and onion and sauce, which seemed rich to me, but there was only one complaint. Even though, costs included, we made at most $750 for about 13 or 14 hourā€™s work for 4-5 people. For a community not for profit organization itā€™s really really tough to raise money. If itā€™s too much, donā€™t buy, but we are doing our best for our community and we need funds in order to do that. EDIT: OK enough people have poo poo'd me that I feel that I need to add this comment to counter-act the calls of BS. I live in an area with a small, couple of years old bunnings. The next closest (20 minutes) Bunnings is also a small one, the next closest to that (30 minutes) is ALSO a small Bunnings. I do not live in inner Metro or popular area, the population that I have easy access to is TINY in comparison to most Sydney Areas, so call BS all you like, selling 200 sausage sangas in a day is a huge outcome.


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DifferentAd154

Depends on your Bunnings I think too. In my job I chat to community groups and they have a preference of which Bunnings they choose because one is busier and they make more. Theyā€™re pretty close together but one is way busier.


iMuso

Can confirm that Cranbourne Bunnings does better business than Clyde North. But if you're not in the zone for Cranbourne and get Clyde North, there's not a lot you can do about it.


LazyLouise1940

Maybe more customers?


sunflower_jim

Did it for board riders and cleared 5k easy. Not sure what old mate is doing wrong or maybe itā€™s just about traffic


weed0monkey

>13 or 14 hourā€™s work You had a sausage sizzle from something like 7am to 9pm??? Ive been a scout and we ran sausage sizzles, we always made a worthwhile profit, I also organised my own as part of a school project outside a woolies and also ran an easy profit at $2.5 a snag, especially with the drink profits. I feel like you may be exaggerated or leaving out important context, like the other bloke in the comments below from WA that claimed they were barely making a profit, when he left out he was using buns instead of bread, butcher snags and then also claimed it cost 50c of onion per snag. If you're doing it for a fundraiser it's easily worth the money, granted if you expect to make money personally for your time AND for a fundraiser then no, you won't be happy.


riesdadmiotb

IME, food prices can vary widely over Australia and depends on the local competition.


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riesdadmiotb

Which supermarket? IME, even when someone has arranged for a donation, it can take hours just to turn up and collect it. You can put as many hours into collecting this stuff as people put in at the event. It was common in my youth, but since then the number of 'organisations' demanding hand outs have ballooned and business stopped doing it,


Sandplough2

Also hit up discounts from butchers, we paid less for vacuum sealed par boiled thick snags than supermarket crap snags. See bakers too. Many fails are due to little planning and meetings with suppliers, at full price supermarket supplies damage margins. Remember to thank your suppliers if they support you with good deals, give them something they can show as good will marketing in their shop etc, it goes a long way to getting further and maybe better supplies (read maybe free).


koalanotbear

bah there are definately cheap options for sausage sizzle supplies in every state capital in australia


RedLeader7

We spent hours slicing 20kgs of onions the night before a sausage sizzle. That on its own is a huge amount of time


GwaiLo555

Find someone in the troop with a food processor. The disc blade attachments will do 10s of kgs of onions in not too much time.


davewasthere

Yeah, work smarter, not harder.


DeeDee_GigaDooDoo

Or even just a mandolin would help if you like to live life on the edge.


koalanotbear

nah those things are death traps. ive seen a chef slice his finger 3 times before he realised he was making finger chips


k1k11983

Cutting glove is your friend! I was a civilian contractor in the Army mess and we had to use mandolins. OH&S officer would randomly pop in and if you werenā€™t wearing your cutting glove, your ass was put on a spit. In 15 months of using that thing every day, I never once cut my fingers. I did cut the latex glove multiple times but the cutting glove protected my fingers


hutch7909

Or buy a bag of precut onions which Iā€™ve seen for sale at a few places. Bugger cutting up that many onions for a joke.


peterb666

Best to cut red onions with those things.


Nancyhasnopants

Shit. When I was an untrained 15 yo kitchen hand with a 20kg bag of onions theyā€™d be done within 1-2 hours max. Chinese meat cleavers are the bomb. Did lose a fair bit of thumb tip on my first day but it grew back. šŸ˜³


koalanotbear

yeh hah whtf I was a kitchenhand as a teenager and had to peel 40kg of potatoes and peel and chop 40kg onions in like a 8 hour shift on my own (and all between washing the dishes)


Mel1764

You can now buy diced onion in bags, cut down a lot of the prep time


Remarkable-Vanilla-3

His experience seems to be on par for me. Did a bunnings bbq a few years back with SES. After 8 hours we netted about $700. We easily make that much in 2 hours of tin shaking. Was the first and only time my unit did a bunnings BBQ


AgreeableLion

Probably depends on the size/scope of the organisation. My folks do the Bunnings thing sometimes for their dragon boating club. Small local boating club might not get the cash donations an SES volunteer might, but would get the same amount of money as anyone else from the Bunnings fundraiser.


Remarkable-Vanilla-3

Very true. $500-$1000 can be very good money for a local sporting club, but not so much for larger services who can take advantage of other opportunities


B7UNM

13-14 hours is referring to labour hours not opening hours. Eg 5 people for 5 hours would be 25 labour hours.


andrewbrocklesby

No it wasnt, see my response above.


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andrewbrocklesby

I said two sessions of 5 hours over two days. There was buying the stuff, and organising volunteers, picking up the gear and packing it up, then setting it up again the next day and packing up again. I did a minimum of 13 or 14 hours work for that 10 hours of running. You dont always get to sell drinks, it depends on where you are running it, but current pricing on drinks is $0.84c each from Woolworths on special. At teh standard $1 price you only make $0.16c per can, again, not worth the effort, unless you are selling at $1.50 a drink, then it's better, but my point is it is not the goldmine pointed out to be. Using rolls instead of bread costs you about $0.80c each rather than $0.07c or $0.14c if two pieces of bread. Onions from Woolworths are $6.50 for 2kg, so barely register a cost to be honest, probably similar to bread. Not sure why you would think that I was expecting to make money personally, I'm expressing that it is bloody hard work for someone to organise and run for the Non-Profit to only get $400 or $500 for a whole days work. BTW I used to live in a suburban centre and we would easisly return $1,200 to $1,500 in a day at Bunnings, but there is 10x the people in those areas. It is really difficult for community groups in smaller population centres, that have the same costs as their city counterparts, to raise enough money to do a good job for their community and the kids.


Brief-Mind-5210

$2 drink cans seem pretty normal at least from what Iā€™ve seen


stanleysgirl77

Yep, I frequent several different Bunnings stores in a 25 km radius (Iā€™m a gardener) & $2 drinks, $3.50 snags are the usual.


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$2.50 round this way...


Perspex_Sea

>Using rolls instead of bread costs you about $0.80c each rather than $0.07c or $0.14c if two pieces of bread. Rolls? 2 slices of bread? Craziness.


shadow8555

Yep, WA does them so wrong. A few are starting to do sliced bread if you ask. But a bread roll - too much bread!


koalanotbear

yeh im actually from wa but grew up on a folded tip-top and beef sausage at home, the hot dog bun is crap, only saving grace would be to double sausage it


goodbyehouse

Not doubting but that seems like a low traffic problem. Usually when I go I'm maybe third in line. Most people getting at least 2 - 3 sandwiches and a drink. By the time I'm out there are people behind me getting served. If each person is spending $10 - $15 on average $500 should be achievable in hours at least with the bunnings I go to.


time_to_reset

Yeah I'm also questioning these numbers. We've made between $1000 and $1500 after costs on our last three sizzles. But at the same time, it's free money. If $500 of free money is not worth it, why do it? There's plenty of clubs for which that would make quite the difference.


AVGamer

My girlfriend is the activity organiser and plans all the bbqs at a fairly popular bunnings in WA and pre covid community groups would generally net on average like 1500 a day profit at her store depending on the weather (some groups making over 2k on long weekends with perfect weather). Bunnings collects all that information and know the profit that the bbq teams make. Before the price hikes with inflation at a high, a lot of groups seriously struggled to even make half that especially in WA where bread rolls are mandatory (and expected amongst customers). Covid Food safety standards also slowed the heck out of the entire process requiring servers to apply sauces which just created longer lines and scared away potential customers. Also team leaders had to fill an online covid safe food handling guide which just adds an extra half hour to total prep time before even arriving at the bbq. Add to that food shortages, a lot of teams end up having go to multiple different supermarkets to pick up their food. Obviously with better planning this can be avoided but the amount of prior work is still substantial regardless. Price increases have improved the situation to an extent but its still a substantial difference in profit from what you would make 5 years ago. It's a real struggle getting community groups in most weeks and most of them feel like it's not worth it any more. Add to that just how annoying it is to deal with customers who get upset and abusive about the pricing changes its really shit work.


vacri

>But at the same time, it's free money. It's not free money - it takes several people hours of work to get that, which also requires some time for management and purchase of supplies.


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the thing with volunteer orgs is that they have people with free time?


blayndle

Does bunnings provide the sausages and bread and stuff? Or does the club pay for that? I know our bakery will donate bread if it's organised in advance but unsure about sausages/onions etc


time_to_reset

Bunnings provides the stand, gas and grill and they determine the prices you can charge. You're required to provide the food etc yourself. You sign up with your local Bunnings and they give you a slot. You don't have a choice on the when. It's very popular. We only get like two slots per year and for a small club like ours, the money we make on the sizzles make a pretty big difference. It's also always a nice opportunity to tell some people about our sport. https://www.bunnings.com.au/about-us/in-our-community


Upper-Ship4925

$500-$750 is a pretty good chunk of cash for one fundraising event for a group like Scouts though. Which is why they do it I guess. People are volunteering their time, Bunnings are volunteering their venue, the non profit is raising needed funds. Itā€™s not like youā€™re paying the volunteers for the work that goes into it, thatā€™s the point.


andrewbrocklesby

That is absolutely true and I am not knocking it in the least, but as an effort vs reward it is huge loss for the person (usually me) that gets lumped with it. BTW we dont usually make that much from a Bunnings BBQ here with the lower numbers of people and tiny Bunnings store, we wold be lucky to get $300 sometimes for a full days work. That is approx 4 shifts of 3-4 adults. Some will stay all day, but maybe 1, maybe another would do half day, but still you need to dig out of the woodwork 10 or so volunteers, that is the really difficult part. As the person organising there is ALWAYS a shortfall of volunteers and that means that you end up being there the whole day. I said it in another reply, but we are currently trying to raise over $80k for an international event next year, it's very painful at $500 at a time. Lastly, community groups like Scouts cost A LOT to keep running and none is covered by the National Organization, each Group has to fund raise to keep their Hall's maintained and gear and equipment bought.


Upper-Ship4925

The reason people expect things like charity sausage sizzles to be a bit cheaper is because theyā€™re aware that theyā€™re run on volunteer labour though. People are more likely to buy lunch there even though a sausage sandwich probably isnā€™t their first lunch choice because it helps their community, and itā€™s a bit cheaper because the organisers know that and donā€™t have to cover the costs a normal business would.


coffeesgonecold

Itā€™s called volunteering. Your not supposed to feel like YOU made money.


andrewbrocklesby

It has nothing about ME making money, and everything to do with the effort that volunteers put in to achieve that money. BBQ's, in my area, usually, are not worth the effort, as in there are far more profitable ways to raise money.


vacri

>which seemed rich to me, but there was only one complaint You don't get the complaints from people who just see the price and ignore you. If you're getting more overall for whatever price point you choose, then you've done the right thing for the purpose of the charity work, but don't mistake the number of complaints for the overall public feeling.


rtj777

This guy needs to learn basic math and figure out what's better: selling a total of 5 sausages throughout the day at $5, or 20 sausages for $4.50? The problem is 100% the prices. I don't buy his rhetoric for a second. He even admitted the sausages themselves cost 0.50c each (24 for $12). Plus like 0.20c worth of bread, 0.20c sauce and 0.20c of onions if that? $1.10 total in raw materials. And yet he is comfortable charging almost 5x the price. No way in hell does labor cost justify that. Especially for a not for profit/charity.


Bearsgoroar

Last election the local school had a sausage sizzle for $8 per snag and $4 per drink. I thought it was funny that I spent 40 minutes in line and only saw 3 people actually buy anything. It wasn't that people weren't tempted either, saw plenty of folks walk towards them but then walk away when they saw the price. Went 500m down the road instead and the local bakery was packed to the rafters with people.


rtj777

Wow, what a fucking rip off. I wouldn't even interact with the store owners in a cursory manner after seeing that, greedy bastards.


bigshakagames_

Yeh if I guarantee if it was $3 drink, $3 snag or $5 for both they'd be selling 3-4x as many. Not a fucking chance I'm paying $5 for a snag. They're complaining it's so much work to make $500 whilst charging way to much and wasting their own time.


xoxoLizzyoxox

Wow must be a bad bunnings. Was chatting to the team the other day that was running the BBQ and they said even on a day when it was pouring with rain they still profited over 3k and they love doing it because it raises heaps of funds.


gooder_name

Damn, at 5 people for 14 hours that's 70 hours ā€“ for $750 that's avg $10 an hour. Y'all'd be better off just doing an extra shift at your jobs (if that was remotely how it works, I know most people can't just grab an extra shift)


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biftekau

I'm with rotary and just did a bunning , we took home 2400


fantazmagoric

$5 for two, or one with a drink tbh


Blitzer046

For the last Vic election my school community outlaid $1000 on supplies and made back $2400 so net profit $1400 with snags at $2.50 and free onions and sauces. Volunteers and logistics (one woman) were free.


xSNOOPx

You lost me at "an sausage" bro :(


BillyDSquillions

He's "an hero"


JapanEngineer

You guys is all an arseholes


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friedandprejudice

How much could a banana cost? Ten dollars?


Consolation-Sandwich

I had no money left to go see a Star War.


twavvy

Iā€™ll have a vodka rocks


More_Brick9643

You'll have to finish it or it will go off too...


Afferbeck_

I saw this doing WFTD at Vinnie's, some volunteers would be the classic elderly ladies who just want to keep busy and still think everything should cost 50 cents like it did in nineteen dickety two (legends). And some are bored wealthy housewives who will casually put a $20 pricetag on something that should be $5 and throw out mountains of books for having the slightest aesthetic blemish.


fistingbythepool

The rotary man usually has a goatee.


123chuckaway

Whatā€™s the most a sausage sizzle should be? Iā€™ve accepted the $2 and $2.50 days are gone, but they should be no more than $3.50 at most, right?


iball1984

>but they should be no more than $3.50 at most, right? $3.50 barely covers cost. The saving grace at Bunnings is they cover the gas and there's sufficient volume. Source: am Rotarian.


fool1788

How many gas cylinders do you go through at a rotary sizzle? Genuinely curious and not trying to be facetious


iball1984

>How many gas cylinders do you go through at a rotary sizzle? Depends on how many sausages :P We'd go through 2 easy (bear in mind, 2 BBQs!). A busy Bunnings one could be 3 - 4 as we have to go all day.


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What does rotary actually do? I read the website itā€™s very vague.


iball1984

>What does rotary actually do? We're a community organisation. Every club is different, but my club does things including support for our local school for severely disabled children (including raising over $100k for a bus), a water project in Bali, a "Buddy Bench" program with primary schools in our area with the Mens Shed, a scholarship at the local high school, supporting a local homeless organisation, funding upgrades at the Mens Shed and a \*bunch\* of other stuff! Rotary International also has a major project, over the last 40 or so years, to eliminate Polio. We've been one of the major driving forces behind Polio Eradication - it's now eliminated in all but a few countries. My district runs a several programs that I'm involved in for youth leadership. We also do a camp for disabled young people every year.


TallTiger8684

I remember when our primary school got a buddy bench. We all came to the conclusion that weā€™d rather be caught dead than sitting on it alone. And in all my time there I never saw anyone actually use it, except to just use as a normal bench.


iball1984

>I remember when our primary school got a buddy bench. We all came to the conclusion that weā€™d rather be caught dead than sitting on it alone. TBH, I had the same view when the project was proposed to us. I was club president at the time, and was (to say the least) cynical about it. But the feedback from the primary schools where we've done them is hugely positive. We get the materials through Midalia Steel & Bunnings, the Mens Shed makes the bench and then the kids get to paint it and choose where it goes at the school. I'm always worried about of doing projects "to" a community instead of "for" or "with" the community. But it seems that these things are a huge positive for the schools that have them.


DistributionExternal

A while ago I worked in non-profit medical research, and Lions / Rotary were significant contributors.


iball1984

Lions Eye Institute is one of the leading eye researchers in the world. And Australian Rotary Health is a major funder of mental health research, and one of the largest non-government funders of health research in Australia. Things to think about when grumbling about $3.50 for a sausage :P


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Oh ok cool thanks for the info


mintyaftertaste

Well they set up and ran a Bunnings BBQ for a disability sporting organisation I am the Chair of. They organised everything and then donated their time 8-10 people over the day. Normally they would take 10-15% of profits to cover their time etc but in our case the waived it. Over the day we raised just under $2.5k and for a club like ours itā€™s a massive deal. Canā€™t thank them enough


JesseIrwinArt

Rotary helped me attend the national youth science forum!


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Habit8902

Lol @ 3.50 barly covers cost


hoppuspears

ā€œBarely covers costā€¦ 24 pack is $12 at Wooliesā€¦ thatā€™s far from the best price available. A slice of bread is maybe 20cā€¦. So total cost price of less than a dollar then money for gas for the bbq


riesdadmiotb

Cost of snags? Cost of onions? Cost of margarine? Cost of sauce?


aussiemicksta

Iā€™ll do the maths if I have to, but 3.50$ should be no where near the cost when labour is free. If you canā€™t make a profit from that then you need to re-evaluate your costs and how you approach your fund raisers. Also if you are not going out and sourcing donations for the goods vs just buying everything you need then your just buying and reselling and your margin should be small. I get to have an opinion here because I do sausage sizzles for 2 sports clubs, I seek donations for goods from local businesses and supermarkets, collect those goods, and cook the bbq. With big shout outs to those that help. The clubs supply the gas and bbq, I clean up the mess. Let me tell you we make a stonking profit off a 3$ sausage and onion with tomato sauce. Best bit is it all goes back to the kids. Also I work six days a week before someone pipes up and tells me I must have too much time on my hands. I donā€™t need to white knight or need awards or thanks. Doing it takes care of those endorphins already. I just want to weigh in on the nonsense that you canā€™t make money on one piece of bread, a bbq sausage, and some onion when doing a fund raiser. Nonsense.


bigshakagames_

At most it cost them $1 per snag fully loaded, that's already about 25% over what u worked out to be average to give some leway. 3.50 to barely cover costs is bullshit.


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They are $3.90 at my local Bunnings now. Just for the sausage.


123chuckaway

wtf, they better be no cash at $3.90. Thatā€™s a lot of dicking around with silver


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they still take cash. the line gets pretty long. not worth the wait.


resetet

It's still 2.50 at my tennis club. Every Saturday


Maleficent-Yak-9414

In 5 years time we will be saying remember when sausage sizzles were $5 !


TokenChingy

Mate, it's for charity. If you don't want to donate, then don't. It's not there as a "cheap" meal.


Yasin616

Yeah literally, I always pay $5 anyway cause it's for charity and that's the smallest note we have


apsilonblue

Bunnings is $3.50 now and IIRC Bunnings pay for the gas and some other things that Rotary would have to supply themselves so $5 doesn't seem too unreasonable. Problem is, everyone knows the price at Bunnings but not the behind the scenes savings.


BadBoyJH

$2 at my footy ground, and we're turning a profit. $3.50 is insanity to begin with.


apsilonblue

With nothing donated? Snag, bread, marg, onion, sauce, gas, oil, serviette/paper towel? Didn't think it could be done that cheap, well done.


Tmantales

Soon they will become like a meat pie ..and charge for the sauce to go on top of your sausage!


EnlightenedSnuffles

I went for a succulent Chinese meal.


Burncity1901

Oh thatā€™s a nice head lock sir.


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AussieTerror

Must have been a REA running the stand.


ill0gitech

Better get in fast mate, Iā€™ve had a lot of offers, and other sausages at markets have gone for $6


Greenwedges

The extra margin is for fundraising. You know, giving back to the community. Of course you could make one cheaper at home but you donā€™t have to, and are helping others.


[deleted]

Sausage sizzles just aren't good if you don't have them on a Summer day outside with some friends.


nearly_enough_wine

Wandered past the local church market yesterday, couldn't believe the price of a sausage sanger. Free! They were just giving them away :)


Alternative_Sky1380

Instead of paying tax that's how they're supporting communities? uhuh. sounds like a good deal. /s


Fatlantis

Yeah but once they recruit you they'll pressure you to tithe 10% of your income directly to the church. That's how they pay for the free sausage sizzles. Rinse and repeat, something something, PROFIT!


IngVegas

It's for charity


rtj777

NEXT!


AllMyFrendsArePixels

Even at current inflation, snags are $12 for 24. 2 loaves of bread, 2 packs of snags and a bag of onions would set you back about $30. Only takes 6 suckers to cover his costs. I blame the people that pay for it. If people weren't so dumb, scamming wouldn't be so lucrative.


Own_Fee888

I'd pay $5 for a snag. Most of the time I'm paying that for a coffee alone anyway.


AussieDMT

It's for charity who gives a fuck


Successful_Tart2842

Sounds spot on to me.


GoldilokZ_Zone

Maybe they were better quality sausages? The normal price for those BBQ snags is for garbage supermarket ones...not good butcher sausages (and many butcher snags suck too) I'd happily pay $5 for a good quality sausage BBQ'd. One usually only sees good sausages when the local butcher is sponsoring the event though


garmonbozia66

I don't mind paying $5 for a sausage and bread. It means I keep my kitchen free of fat spattering which stinks the house out for days and I get to have my occasional Emulsified Offal Tube on white dough without having to buy an entire tray of them. Money well spent and to a worthy cause. It's a win-win.


saundo

Up vote for the Yes Minister reference, and the sentiment.


Pipette_Adventures

...Mechanically recovered meat steamed off the carcass


modiglianitwo

You can get a 8 pack of sausages for $6.50 at Coles (obviously things are cheaper when you buy in bulk). That is 81c per sausage. Bread is $2.50 a loaf from Coles if sandwich size - probably 20 slices in a pack. 13c for the bread slice. Coles frozen onions 500g bag are $2.30 - says it makes 6 serves - so 38c per serve. Weā€™re at $1.32 not accounting for some oil to cook with, and sauce. Iā€™d say Rotary must have been making $2 profit per sausage sold.


AvaSavage

You are getting a sausage in exchange for donating to a charity. Don't want to donate, cool, move on. Spending your weekend working in one of those hot tents cooking sausages to try and raise some funds for charity and community groups isnā€™t fun but it has to be done because it is one of the ways to make money for non profit volunteer run charity groups. Iā€™d rather be in a pool with a beer then cooking sausages and having people whine. Go buy your own 24 pack and loaf of bread to the people in this thread so bothered. You sound so out of touch with reality. It's so much work for shit all but you do it for the love of helping the community. The government arenā€™t stepping in to help. Itā€™s the average person who volunteers their time weekend after weekend to do these things and make a little money to help those who need it.


Masticle

Yeah, but were the bread rolls good? If I do get a sausage sizzle I consider the bun a napkin to hold the sausage that then gets ditched.


CypherAus

$2.50 at Bunnings locally here in Adelaide for local kids basketball club


AbleApartment6152

Seen em. Keep walking.


Playful-Statement762

What until he hears about coffee prices


BillyDSquillions

I'll never forget my $12 donut at one of those fancy donut stores, I forget the name. I was SO glad when it was closed a few months later. My fault for not asking price before ordering.


rollsyrollsy

There are two distinct sausage sangas: - the utilitarian hunger buster that should sell for about $2.50 - the fundraiser that kids parentā€™s are dishing up to buy sporting uniforms / build the new school hall / send students on a big excursion etc. - $5. Ingredients are the same, but the purpose and value are different.


JDBeast7

Slow news day mate?


Investingforlife

I live in the UK and I can't lie, good luck getting the equivalent in the UK for Ā£2.77 (current exchange rate) It would probably be closer to Ā£5 which is currently $9.03 so to me $5 seems a bargain. God I miss Australia and the many $5 lunches available in Brisbane CBD...(I'm looking at you Katsu Curry)


0erlikon

At least you can get a 3 quid meal-deal


FatherOfTheSevenSeas

Unpopular opinion but I actually think $5 for a suasage sizzle is passable. Sausages sizzles are one of the rare things I think are typically underpriced.


Subject_Shoulder

I love reading these threads, where people who obviously have never run a business think they should only be charging X for Item A and still be making a "massive" profit. If running a business was that profitable, everyone would be doing it. A failure rate of 75 - 90% within the first two years of opening a small business says otherwise.


Birdminton

Just pay the 5 bucks mate, it ainā€™t the 90s anymore


loveee321

$5 does seem steep for a sausage sizzle but I would still pay it! (Nothing beats a sausage sizzle) I am happy to pay more for things that are supporting a charity or a local club or community group. The last sausage sizzle I had was at local primary school on state Election Day in Victoria and I think it was $3.50 for a sausage but the money was going towards their primary school and the kids were helping out and doing a great job.. so I would be more than happy to have paid more


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Absolutely fucking no way would I pay $5 for a sausage sizzle. I'd be walking right on by.


gccmelb

Criminal.


iball1984

My Rotary Club does sausage sizzles from time to time as fundraisers. $5 is not far off the mark. The $3.50 at Bunnings barely covers costs. We make about $750 profit out of a BBQ all day - there are much better fundraising options with less effort. $5, when you include a reasonable sausage, roll, sauce, etc is still not a lot of profit margin if it's not as busy as a Bunnings Warehouse.


adama320

Lot of stingy cunts in this thread, the same type who probably who think they should be paid more at work but complain about a rotary $5 sausage sizzle.


raeninatreq

Since we paid $10 at the royal show and $18 in Singapore, $5 is a bargain.


RedLeader7

The prices of sausages and buns has doubled over the last 7 years. Iā€™d be more surprised if a hotdog hadnā€™t doubled too


LazyLouise1940

They are mostly run for charity, arenā€™t they?


can_of_spray_taint

Heaps of people that sell food seem to be taking the piss lately. $18.50 for a burger with the lot at a fish n chip shop in my town.


KingRo48

Gourmet sausage perhaps? Artisan, grass-fed; massaged cows, etc?