TheOutdoorThreadmill
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Looking for freebiesPJ giving the hotel lobby a platform, pitiful
Looking for freebiesPJ giving the hotel lobby a platform, pitiful
PJ giving the hotel lobby a platform, pitiful
Vintners have also just not made their product or offering more attractive to punters as they never had to work for it in attracting customers.Peej determined to get bit of outrage built up over the budget but singing the wrong tune championing going back to what was a TEMPORARY 9% rate.
As per article below, official figures show things not so bad in hospitality sector as some vested interests like to make out.
"Much of the goodwill towards the pub trade that built up during the pandemic has been squandered through steep increases in the price of a pint – and almost everything else on the menu – in post-Covid times.
Some of that, of course, is explained away by generalised cost inflation as well as price increases by suppliers Heineken and Diageo. But it would be naive to think there was not an element of profit taking by city pubs and drinks companies – many of which have reported record years in recent times – amid a sharp rebound in demand and inbound tourism after public health restrictions were unwound.
Bar and restaurant sales volumes, according to provisional figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), were down 2 per cent on a rolling basis over the three months to the end of June compared with the same period last year. Poor weather certainly played a big part in that but it would be surprising if the decline was not at least partially explained by consumers cutting back on nights out as the cumulative burden of two or more years of price inflation becomes evident." (C) Irish Times
Same paper which generally lambasted the budget, makes clear in post budget article that the sector was flogging a dead horse.
"As for the hospitality lobby, there is a profound sense that it overplayed its hand in recent months. The Restaurants Association of Ireland and pub lobby groups pursued the VAT issue doggedly, perhaps to the detriment of a wider, more detailed conversation about the issues facing the sector.
That their “#VAT9″ campaign came a cropper in the end was completely predictable. The economic justification for the cut – which, by Department of Finance estimates, would have cost the exchequer at least €545 million in just one year – was patchy at best" (c) Irish Times
Lobby groups would now be better advised to tell their members to set their stall out to take advantage of the election bribes that will be hitting consumer pockets in next few months and should ensure a profitable Christmas period and beyond for well run establishments!
Vintners have also just not made their product or offering more attractive to punters as they never had to work for it in attracting customers.
"Look, it is an old building and I could not bother doing up the toilets, shopfront, outside lighting, doors or even bother with painting the outside and basic maintenance"
You come across fine old heritage pubs all over London in particular and they still get the basics right to a decent standard.
Exactly.Spot on. To be fair, it's the same here. Generally (like any business) the publicans, restaurant owners that put in the graft and give customers what they want at a fair price, will survive and prosper.
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We are now a nation with the hand out constantly,Spot on. To be fair, it's the same here. Generally (like any business) the publicans, restaurant owners that put in the graft and give customers what they want at a fair price, will survive and prosper.
It's across every facet. Be it cost of living payments to individuals, help to buy schemes, grants to help businesses pay high energy costs. It's all very well when the country is a wash with money but long-term it does nothing to solve these problems.We are now a nation with the hand out constantly,
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