A memo …

… to the BBC Good Food Show Summer and to whoever is responsible for doling out the fast food concessions.

To: BBC Good Food Show Summer – Complaints and Feedback

From: Me

Re: Visit to BBC Good Food Show Summer – Birmingham 16^th June 2016

I set down below an excerpt from my post entitled A Grand Day Out … take a tip, as follows :

... with limited choices we chose a crepe from a concession near the picnic areas – sweet or savoury – we opted for the savoury @ £6 per crepe – expensive, although tasty enough. What I didn't realise until it was too late was that the two small bottles of water purchased at the same time – at £2 each – gasp - was from Costco – for those not familiar, a membership based cash and carry which bears the Kirkland name. I can't tell you yet exactly how much they cost per bottle but rest assured I'll be backing up my mouth as soon as possible – if I had to guess probably in the region of 20p per bottle – watch this space.

I was very generous with “in the region of 20p per bottle”.

I have now completed my research. The bottles of water are sold in packs of 40 – each bottle is 500ml. Cost (including VAT) is 1.6p per 100ml – 8.025p per bottle which, if my arithmetic is correct, results in a mark up of 2492%.

Everyone is entitled to make a profit and lets not forget it's hard work but there's a limit and there's a vast difference between what is reasonable and absolute daylight robbery.

I did try to pass my research to “Contact Us” “For complaints and feedback regarding the show see our CUSTOMER CHARTER”. Sadly “File or directory not found … might have been removed … name changed or is temporarily unavailable.”

So, my final effort is to email general enquiries bbcgoodfoodshow@riverstreetevents.co.uk – I'll keep you posted!