The Inflation Thread.

[MrFrisp]

Donal is a money grabbing lunatic mate.

I worked there for 4 years, the profit margins there are absolutely insane, 75% on a pint, staff are paid low wages too.

Wow, 75%, that's bloody insane. Low wages on top? Greedy huh...

As I always say though, if people keep paying those prices, they'll keep charging those prices.

 

[Cormac]

€4 for two slices of toast..FFS, it's only about €2.30 for the whole bloody pan...And yes, I'm aware of overheads, etc. But that's off the wall..

Yera overheads my arse. People aren't stupid.
Customers don't mind paying for good product or good preparation or even good service but to charge 4euro to pop two slices of bread in a toaster and push down the button! F*** off!

A lot of places charge 3euro or more for a cup of tea! To boil the kettle and pop a teabag in a cup, again F*** off!

This overhead nonsense as justification for charging extortionate prices for basic crap is nonsensical. You can justify it when there is time and energy and good produce being exchanged but not when the doors are open and the lights are on anyway and all you had to do was waddle your fat arse over to the kettle and push a button.

I'll give these F***ers overheads.

 

[jimmym]

Got two toasted sandwiches and pot of tea for my self and the young fella in a cafe last week, 23.30eu,
No price list displayed, If there was i would have left the young fellas sandwich behind,

 

[DeepThroat]

My wife asked for an extra slice of toast in Johnno’s in douglas. They said she would have to get a portion of two slices

€4 for two slices of toast. FFS….

Tis the world we live in today...

People are no longer allowed make discretionary common sense decisions in the work place...

If they do they get fired..

 

[MrFrisp]

Yera overheads my arse. People aren't stupid.
Customers don't mind paying for good product or good preparation or even good service but to charge 4euro to pop two slices of bread in a toaster and push down the button! F*** off!

A lot of places charge 3euro or more for a cup of tea! To boil the kettle and pop a teabag in a cup, again F*** off!

This overhead nonsense as justification for charging extortionate prices for basic crap is nonsensical. You can justify it when there is time and energy and good produce being exchanged but not when the doors are open and the lights are on anyway and all you had to do was waddle your fat arse over to the kettle and push a button.

I'll give these F***ers overheads.

Spot on. Well said sir.

 

[Stacky]

Yera overheads my arse. People aren't stupid.
Customers don't mind paying for good product or good preparation or even good service but to charge 4euro to pop two slices of bread in a toaster and push down the button! F*** off!

A lot of places charge 3euro or more for a cup of tea! To boil the kettle and pop a teabag in a cup, again F*** off!

This overhead nonsense as justification for charging extortionate prices for basic crap is nonsensical. You can justify it when there is time and energy and good produce being exchanged but not when the doors are open and the lights are on anyway and all you had to do was waddle your fat arse over to the kettle and push a button.

I'll give these F***ers overheads.

Apart from rates to the council, energy costs, rent, employee wages, insurance, cleaning and maintenance costs you are right of course.

 

[The High King]

Apart from rates to the council, energy costs, rent, employee wages, insurance, cleaning and maintenance costs you are right of course.

Wait until they discover the price of shutting their doors because they have no customers left.

Any time I get fleeced by a business I make it my business to never go back there and go out of my way if necessary to take my custom elsewhere.
I'm sure I'm not alone.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.

 

[MrFrisp]

Wait until they discover the price of shutting their doors because they have no customers left.

Any time I get fleeced by a business I make it my business to never go back there and go out of my way if necessary to take my custom elsewhere.
I'm sure I'm not alone.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.

Exact same way we do things.

Vote with your feet.,

 

[bluesball]

Was up in Cong 2 years ago €8 for 2 slices of slice pan bread with garlic spread on it.

 

[The High King]

Exact same way we do things.

Vote with your feet.,

Plenty of good places still left tbh.
People are lazy, which is why these places have got away with it in the past.
However the worm has turned, places that treated their staff like shit in the past safe in the knowledge they could get fresh victims haven't changed their ways and as a result provide shit produce and shit service and now the prices have gone up and people have less to spend and are becoming more discerning.
They will all go the way of the dodo.