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That menu sounds really good. If you can serve all of that and still break even you're doing great.

At our hostel, we offer a simple breakfast for £1.50. They get cereals, bread, jams, juice, yoghurt, cheese, ham, etc. We used to provide a free breakfast - just toast, with jams, and 2 cereals, but people were complaining about how rubbbish it was. So we charged for it, but offered a better selection for them, and they are now happy, and people rate us highly because of our cheap breakfast. If we were to offer the same menu for free, people would complain about it. For £1.5 they think they are getting value for their money.

A £1.5 we don't make any money out of it, usually £20-£30 profit, but factor in staffing costs, we make no money from it. We only buy the supermarket brand products as they are so much cheaper compared to Kellogs, or brand name products. For example, a 500g box of Tesco Cornflakes costs 17p, a 500g box of Kellogs CF costs £2+....

Perhaps a basic cold breakfast similar to what we do for our guests.

But unless you can separate the breakfast areas for B&B and hostel, you will find the hostel guests "accidentally" going over to the B&B breakfast. At the hostel, we have difficulty getting some people to pay for breakfast. Everytime I check guests in, I tell them about our £1.50 breakfast, and repeatedly tell them the cost, but I still get some people thinking it's free... I have signs up as well. :rolleyes: Some people are freeloaders.