Greggs is raising the price of some of its menu items from today in a move the business blames on rising costs.
The bakery chain is increasing the price of its two-part breakfast deal, which includes a roll and drink, from £2.95 to £3.15. The three-part breakfast deal, which also includes a side such as a yoghurt pot or hash browns, will rise from £3.95 to £4.15.
Greggs has also confirmed that some of its baked goods, such as the empire biscuit, will go up by 5p. It comes after Greggs increased the price of its sausage roll earlier this year by 5p, to £1.30.
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Roisin Currie, the chief executive of Greggs, said the high street chain “still offers exceptional value” after confirming the latest price hikes during the company’s latest set of financial results.
Ms Currie also urged Labour to avoid any “surprises” in the autumn Budget, which will take place on November 26 and will see Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out her tax and spending plans.
Greggs has said the previously announced higher rate of employer National Insurance, as well as the rising minimum wage, has put pressure on its overall business costs.
Ms Currie said: “I guess what’s not helpful is when it’s something that comes out that surprises us and that’s what happened with the national insurance last year – we weren’t expecting that and it came in very quickly.
”It’s quite hard to plan and manage a business when you have a £20 million hit that you hadn’t predicted or weren’t aware was coming.”
Ms Currie added that she was hoping business owners would be given “reasonable notice” over any changes. Greggs, which has 2,675 shops in the UK, recorded a 6.1% increase in sales over the third quarter of 2025, compared with the same period a year ago.
On a like-for-like basis, sales growth across company-managed shops slowed to 1.5% year-on-year. It also marks a slowdown from the 2.6% like-for-like growth recorded over the first half of the year.
Greggs said it was now expecting 120 net new openings for the year as a whole, which is slightly lower than its previous target. It has continued to open new shops recently in Tesco and Sainsbury’s as part of a partnership with the supermarket chains, as well as relocating smaller shops to better locations.
Total openings on a net basis, which subtracts the number of closures, were 57 so far this year.
Ms Currie said that consumers tended to be “saving rather than spending and, where they are spending, they are spending wisely – so it’s a very savvy consumer out there”.
“With us being a great value proposition, then hopefully that means some of those customers will be swapping into Greggs to take advantage of that great value,” she added.
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