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My daughter and her husband went for a meal today in Baltinglass , the food was reasonably priced , and they had no problem with that , They dont drink and both decided before leaving to have a soft drink , I. E . A PINT OF COKE AND A PINT OF LUCOSADE ..THE COST OF THIS 2 PINTS OF SOFT DRINKS ...13E....THATS RIGHT THIRTEEN EURO...AND THEY WONDER WHY PEOPLE DONT GO OUT TO EAT OR DRINK ANYMORE....
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thats a scandal.shooting themselves in the foot big time.ud but 2 litres of coke in aldi or lidl for 1.20e...i guess that particular establishment wont see either of them again so they will lose the custom and rightly so..
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Exactly kavvie , they really are a joke ...
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my young lad and his friends have the right idea.slab of 24 carlsberg for 25e between 4 of them.6 pints each for 6e...then go out.we were fools in our day..!
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Germaines? Has to have been an error. E13 sounds crazy.
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yeah workrider,the dole doesnt go very far.why dont u be a good father and tell yre daughter and son in law to try working for a living.
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OUFIES PAL no error ...6e for 2bottles of coke 7e for 2 lucosade...
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Shocking stuff. They should have walked out and left it with them. No condoning prices like that.Thought we were getting away from that kind of robbery.
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Terrible rip off.
Kingrat, you obviously suffered from a lack of oxygen at birth. |
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THATS WHAT I SAID OUFIES , totally insane in this recession ....THE GOTHCHEE...
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whats yre gripe gotchee?i call it for what it is.if u dont like it,tough titty!
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I gave up the drink all most 10years ago W.R, so i drink Lucozade when i get thirsty and pay around 3euro a bottle when i frequent the pubs, the other day while drinking a Lucozade after doing a spot of gardening my daughter said to me Dad; do you know that Famous “energy” brand Lucozade has 4.8 teaspoons of sugar in a 500ml bottle ITS good for you; and your putting on a lot of weight.
HOLY JESUS ITS WATER FROM NOW ON.  |
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serious lack of oxygen!
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Pity when the food was good and reasonably priced . Pubs nearly a thing of the past outside cities and bigger towns at this stage. C change taking place in peoples habits as to drinking. Maybe too cheap in supermarkets/garages/off licences. Home drinking not a great thing , lots of problems/misery down the line.
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THAT SHOULD READ ITS NOT GOOD FOR YOU,..I MISSING MY Lucozade AND MY LINES
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agree with that oufies ..a person near me on a bot of vodka a day.and holding down a good job.its a big prob.specially the spirits.
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Usain Bolt...I hope ya donated that ton to Tony's charity ya potless spoofer!
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Water affects me like that too.
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Good man Frank well done...its good to see that daughter of yours looking after your health ...Now now Kavvie...
.....Oufies , I'd say the gloss was taken off it for them with that sting in the tail...Will these people ever realise they are turning their business on a downward spiral and it might never recover... |
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dj876 USAIN BOLT....BRILLIANT....
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maybe yre daughter ,wr, should look at the menus in future? if is out of her league ,she can always move on.to a greasy spoon.
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local chipper even?
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I have been in there a couple of times myself and found food /staff excellent. would have been drinking a beer so no knowledge of prices of minerals.No sense in it. If you kick a dog often enough he will bite ya back eventually.
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There most be a 100% mark up on soft drinks in most pubs ..can any one out there in pub land Verify this.
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In wr's example the gross margin is 87%,standard soft drink margin is 77%.Only thing about soft drinks he ain't going to have ten of them.
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i beleive the cuisine in some italian chippers is quiet excellent ,wr!and some do special offers of a free can of coke with fish and chips.maybe that is the way forward for yre daughter and son in law.
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What mark up on spirits/beer?
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You must be a frequent visitor to the greasy spoon yourself Kingrat ,as you know of such special offers.
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I am talking gross margin here not mark up.
Beer = 54-57%,Spirits = 75%,bottled beer = 70%+ Draught is the smallest margin by a long way but is the most popular obv. |
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one wouldnt mind paying for beer etc but minerals should be 1.50 at most.cans of coke in 6 packs cost 40c each..
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You can't really equate minerals in different packaging or for retail purposes but it's still a rip off.
No good being in a high margin business when there is no volume anymore. |
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reasons why are clear to see?
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One of them Kavvie as well as change in attitude or cultural changes,smoking ban and general economic recession.
In defence of the trade,although stock costs are low,there are many other costs which are extortionate and most profitable premises provide entertainment. |
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i loved the old pub atmosphere..sat night out,big crowds etc,..all change now,
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An alien walks into a bar and sits next to a muscular guy. Then the alien pushes his finger into the guys shoulder and says: bloop, bloop, bloop!
The guy looks at him and says," If you do that again I will cut your head off with this here knife!" The alien just did it again and said bloop, bloop, bloop! In anger the guy cuts off the alian head. Immediately another one grows back. Then the alien pushes his finger into the guy's shoulder and says: bloop, bloop, bloop! The guy says if you do that again I will cut off your dick! The alien did it again so in his anger the guy pulls down the aliens pants and is shocked to see that there is no dick! In his astonishment he asks," If you don't have a dick then how do you have sex?" The alien pushes his finger into the guys shoulder and says," bloop, bloop, bloop!" That what happens when an alien has to many Lucozades W.R |
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If you go into a working class local the dash of 7up, coke, red or white is all free, take as much as you want only pay for the spirit, no coincidence its these pubs that have survived and in some cases thrived in this recession?.
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Silver, same story with trades people etc. who ripped off during boom.Idle now while decent folk still plying their trades and doing quiet well in some cases. Its long road that has no bend.
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agree oufies, charge you the price of a 3 bedroom house just to build on an extension, greed, pure and utter greed, where is there wifes 4x4 now?, driving the kids to school in a 01 Punto?.
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lol , yep driving 4x4 wearing slippers and pajamas ,drop kids off and back to the sack till 2pm.
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