[RobFisher]

Anyone else finding Dave's curry deal hilarious?

Dave paid £30 and gets half-price main courses that cost £9 each. But they keep saying he only saves £4.50 per visit, so perhaps I'm missing something.

I really wanted to hear what Jamie Oliver had to say about it but had to go to work. Did anyone hear?

[nicowoodcock]

Well, the voucher is usable 10 times (I think..)

10 lots of £4.50 savings would equal £45.

Minus the £30 pounds paid for the voucher, means Dave saves a total of £15.

[Latina]

I woke up to that this morning. Hilarious. Why do I always wake up to the most random parts of the show?

[Yudster]

Well, the voucher is usable 10 times (I think..)

10 lots of £4.50 savings would equal £45.

Minus the £30 pounds paid for the voucher, means Dave saves a total of £15.

He's still spent a lot more on curry which is not only much more expensive than his usual, but apparently also not as good as his usual. So all he's done is get a deal (of sorts) on something that, even when discounted, costs considerably more that what he actually wanted.

Silly boy.

[jt78963]

Wasn't this a few weeks ago?

[Yudster]

And this morning.

[Latina]

And it wasn't even his nearest curry house was it? Or one that does deliveries?

[jt78963]

I believe it's in another vilage.

[MK Chris]

It's a ten minute drive and they're planning on doing deliveries soon, though they don't at the moment. You can eat in the restaurant though.

[Yudster]

It sounds like an overpriced restaurant putting together a deal with which they are hoping to snare the gullible and mathematically challenged. Someone must have told them where Dave lives. Bradcali?

[Lactating Man Nips]

Didn't he say they didn't do Korma and that the average price was around £7 per main. Pah!

Although, I did actually buy something similar for some local restaurants which although didn't save me much got us to try something different.

[Yudster]

£7 per main was the cheapest - £9 average.

I want a curry now.

[Johnny 1989]

The curry link (what I heard of it) was really funny, trust Dave to get his sums wrong

[nicowoodcock]

Well, the voucher is usable 10 times (I think..)

10 lots of £4.50 savings would equal £45.

Minus the £30 pounds paid for the voucher, means Dave saves a total of £15.

He's still spent a lot more on curry which is not only much more expensive than his usual, but apparently also not as good as his usual. So all he's done is get a deal (of sorts) on something that, even when discounted, costs considerably more that what he actually wanted.

Silly boy.

I also thought this was just from a few weeks ago.
I am yet to listen to this mornings show.
So yes, as you said. Silly boy.

[RobFisher]

What confused me was why does he only save £4.50 each time? If he's buying two main courses at £9 at half price... Or does he only get one of them half price? In which case the deal is even worse than I thought! Oh dear...

[Nicola_Red]

I don't think he has specified whether you can use the voucher on more than one curry per order, only that it can be used 10 times in total. But it's ten lots of 4.50 saving whether that's spread over ten bookings or packed into two.

[John22]

I thought 10 times also.

[SAV1OUR]

No prizes for guessing who writes the running orders:

07:20 (00:50) – Chris asks Dave how his Indian restaurant loyalty scheme is going. Very well thank you, and soon he’ll be in clear credit. Chris however gets the cynics to text in, and thousands decide to mock the whole thing

07:35 (01:05) – More about Dave’s loyalty scheme. Even with the facts, there are still those that are quick to take the mickey


Bless.

[DannyBoy]

Every time the team try to explain to Dave hes getting a shit deal, I keep thinking of this episode of Father Ted:

[Sunny So Cal]

Ha. That's one of my son's favourite episodes. Nothing like a bit of Ted to make the day better.

[RobFisher]

Heh. Peter Jones was just on taking the mickey. He did praise the entrepeneurial spirit of the restaurant, though. "There are probably only a few people in the country who would take such a deal and they found Dave!"

[Yudster]

I don't think he has specified whether you can use the voucher on more than one curry per order, only that it can be used 10 times in total. But it's ten lots of 4.50 saving whether that's spread over ten bookings or packed into two.

Well if he uses it often enough he will eventually come out ahead of what he would have spent at that particular takeaway, but the point is if he'd stuck to his normal takeaway he would not only have spent an equivalent amount - or possibly less - because its cheaper, but he and Jayne would actually have been able to order the things they wanted to eat. There's no effective saving when you are getting a discount on something you don't actually want.

[catherine]

Ah I really want a chicken and mushroom balti with a giant naan. Stupid Milton Keynes and poopy curries.

[Kaiser Chef]

Ah I really want a chicken and mushroom balti with a giant naan. Stupid Milton Keynes and poopy curries.

I thought there were a couple of good ones in MK? The one in the food hall at the Centre, I thought was supposed to be good?

[RobFisher]

Mmm, Balti. The best curry I had was in a tiny restaurant in the Balti Triangle in Birmingham. Served sizzling in a metal balti dish with a huge naan bread to dip in it. No wasting stomach space on rice. They don't sell beer so they send you to the offy a few doors down, which is quite fun and makes it really cheap.