TGIF brunch ($19.50)!
Friday TGIF brunch $19.50 — small affordable sit-down spread. The pendulum swing back to budget brunch pricing after the week's restaurant rotation.
TGIF brunch with BB — $19.50 sit-down brunch, the budget-tier swing after the week’s escalating prices. The pendulum had been moving from $50 to $89 across the week, and Friday brought it back down to ground level.
We ordered (small TGIF brunch):
- A shared brunch plate or two small individual orders
- A drink each
Total: $19.50 for the spread.
The $19.50 brunch is the small-cafe budget-tier pricing. Roughly $10 per person for a sit-down meal is the kind of cost that competes directly with hawker pricing while offering the cafe experience.
The plate(s) were the simple kind. A single main with one carb base and a side — the kind of brunch that’s all-in-one rather than the multi-component plates we’d done earlier in the week. Probably a simple egg-and-toast plate or a chicken-and-rice combo.
Drinks were the budget options — a basic coffee for me and a regular tea or juice for BB. No specialty pours.
The contrast across the week is what made the formula worth noting. We started at $19.80 with a Burpple Beyond deal on Wednesday two weeks ago, peaked at $153 on Thursday last week, and now we’d returned to $19.50 at the start of this stretch. The full pricing spectrum got tested across two weeks.
The honest take: the $19.50 brunch was just as satisfying as the $89 one, for different reasons. The $89 plate had more components and more refinement; the $19.50 plate had no overhead expectations and the value math worked out comically in our favour.
Phase 2 reopening had given us back the full restaurant tier. Now we were figuring out where the actual value lived. The answer kept turning out to be: at the budget end and at home.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 Reliable budget TGIF brunch — would repeat at this price point.
