04-08-2025
Cafe sparks outrage over insane price for a timeless favourite: 'Call the police'
An outraged customer has slammed a popular cafe chain for charging him $20.90 for a 'sad'-looking toastie.
The man had visited a Coffee Club in Adelaide last week and ordered a Reuben toastie.
The menu said it contained 'sliced pastrami, tangy sauerkraut, sliced pickled gherkins, whole egg mayo and a blend of melted mozzarella and cheddar'.
However, the disappointed customer's photo showed a much less impressive sandwich.
For almost $21, he received a stingy amount of pastrami and cheese, and just a 'spoon of sauerkraut and some mayo'.
To top it off, the bread appeared to be hardly toasted.
'My wife and I rarely go out as we are striving to achieve some long-term goals but thought I'd share a bit of our outing this morning in pictures,' the man wrote on Reddit.
He also shared a photo of his wife's ham, cheese and tomato toastie, which cost a whopping $15.90, and looked just as unappealing.
'What a time to be alive!' the customer joked.
Social media users criticised the meal, with one describing it as 'the saddest-looking toastie I've ever seen'.
'Call the police, you got robbed,' one wrote.
Another said: '$15 for a cheese toastie? Hold my thongs, I'm opening a café.'
Other commenters described the toasties as 'bloody disgraceful', 'pathetic' and a 'huge rip-off'.
Others urged the dissatisfied customer to consider local cafés over chains.
'You rarely go out, and you picked Coffee Club? Ah mate, you really need to be choosier,' one said.
'Chains and franchises (generally) are designed to be consistent and are traps for the masses,' another added.
'They're essentially money extractors, minimising their costs and maximising their profit.'
A Coffee Club spokesman told Daily Mail the company was 'disappointed to hear of the experience'.
'It's not reflective of our standards or the service we expect our stores to provide to our valued customers,' he said.
