Tesco

Dingwall Tesco in Dingwall contains its own café which is open every day from 8am until the evening. The café is the standard supermarket layout and the breakfast items are laid out under hot lamps. We didn’t wait long to be served and it took around 5 minutes from start of serving to reaching the till to pay. The Great 8 breakfast advertises a pre-selected choice of items, 2 sausages, 1 bacon, tomato, beans, fried egg, mushrooms and a hash brown. However you don’t have to choose these items and you can choose 8 of anything, including; lorne sausage, fried bread, scrambled egg, plum tomatoes, black pudding and a tattie scone. The only thing they didn’t include was a slice of haggis. If you want more items you can pay 65p extra for each of them. We opted for all the ingredients that are included in the Ultimate Full Scottish Breakfast, minus the haggis, which was a total of 9 item plus toast. The bacon was very dry due to the hot lamp it had been placed under for who knows how long. The lorne sausage looked dry too but was actually quite moist and the links sausage was also ok. The black pudding was ok but they ran out of it by the time the whole review team could grab a piece, with no option of having more freshly cooked, with an hour of breakfast time still to go. The fried egg was freshly cooked but if you wanted scrambled egg, it was stored in a dish under the hot lamp. The tomato that was served was a little on the small side but you are served a good portion of beans and mushrooms. There was no complaints on the quality of the tattie scone. Some of the team opted to have some fried bread but were extremely disappointed, as it was like “plywood”, not cardboard but plywood! Unfortunately the breakfast doesn’t include toast and you have to pay 99p for it but you do get the choice of white or brown. You also have to pay £1.19 extra for tea. In total for 8 items with tea and toast it will cost you £7.17. If you add all the 9 items minus the haggis for the Ultimate Full Scottish Breakfast it will cost you £7.82. In the points review, the breakfast starts with the base of 2 stars as it contains all the ingredients for the basic breakfast and also gains marks for extra items such as lorne sausage, tomatoes/mushrooms. It doesn’t gain any further marks as they don’t have the option of a poached egg or haggis and the produce was only average. The bacon was also dry so it loses a mark there. After weighing up the positive and negative points, this breakfast scores 3 out of 5 stars. Overall a decent sized breakfast only let down by the food not being freshly cooked and missing haggis. Not bad for a supermarket though. Recommendations for the Owner to achieve Full Scottish Breakfast Greatness: (In order of priority) 1. Include haggis in the breakfast. 2. Option of a poached egg. 3. Don’t leave food under the hot lamp for too long as it becomes dry.
	Breakfast served at times	8am - 11.30am Mon - Sun
	Breakfast advertised as	Great 8 Breakfast
	Price	£4.99
	Breakfast contents	2 Sausages 1 Bacon Tomato Beans Fried egg Mushrooms Hash brown OR Pick 8 for £4.99 from the above plus Lorne sausage Fried bread Scrambled egg Plum tomatoes Black pudding Tattie scone Extra items 65p each Toast brown or white – 99p Extra
	Tea/Coffee Included	No Tea/coffee £1.19
	How cooked	Fried
	Service Time Queuing	5 minutes
	Service Time Waiting for Order	5 minutes
	Star Score	3/5
	Points deducted for	No haggis, charging toast and no option of a poached egg.
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