Pub told to raise prices!

The General

There's a student pub in carlow where all pints are 3e and all bottles are 3e except a few and there's lots of other deals they have going as well but there's a rumor going around that some 'vintage union'(Not sure of the name) are telling them to raise their prices because they are taking to much business away from other pubs! Any thoughts?

Stark

This sort of thing happens in the background all the time. It's why you can have 10 pubs on a street but no price drops due to competition. Stinking corrupt country.

ballooba

LOL, do you mean Vintner's Union?

ferdi

****ing cartel mother****ers, ireland is so bent it can see its own ass.

Victor

Moderater wrote:

a rumor

Exactly

Moderater wrote:

'vintage union'

Licensed Vintners Association www.lva.ie

Also see http://www.tca.ie/

ferdi

it may be a roumor victor but if it turned oput to be true, i cant say i'd be surprised.

The General

Victor wrote:

Exactly


They haven't raised the prices yet but some ppl are saying they will. Just saying what i heard!

Flukey

Sounds about right to me. Pubs are trying to blame the smoking ban for their drop in trade. It has been an ideal scapegoat for them. If they dropped their prices, then their trade would increase, as that is a far bigger problem than htesmoking ban. I have been in both England and Scotland in the past few months. It is strange going up to buy two drinks and being charged less than a fiver. Even allowing for the exchange rate, that is a big difference. You wouldn't get much change out of a tenner for two drinks here.

Blisterman

Yeah, i've had drinks that cost €9 before.

Stark

Oh dear god. Where? Name and Shame! It isn't that Cafe En Seine place in Dublin is it?

Blisterman

Well it's for a double vodka and milk. But still.

Stark

Double vodka and milk? Never heard of that? Is it actually nice? I figured the milk would curdle or something if you added vodka.

Burago

Milk is fine with vodka, add a shot of kalua and you've got a white russian.

steveland?

It's getting embarrassing asking people for the amount of money I do when I'm in work. €5.25 for a pint bottle of Bulmers, €5.75 for Smirnoff Ice or Bacardi Breezers


Remember recently they raised the prices for alco-pops country wide to "discourage uder-agers buying them"

It's ridiculous paying the bones of (usually all of) a fiver just for a pint.

God help ya if you drink spirits....

garthv

raising the prices of drinks?!
highly unlikely as theres a lot of pubs lowering prices at the moment just to get customers,if any pub in my area raised prices again they are gauranteed to lose my custom,i cant see any advantage to raising prices at this moment in time....

Stephen

The pub in question is "Sloppy Joe's" - Devereaux cellar bar basically. Apparently they have been doing a roaring trade since introducing the €3 pints deal. I wouldn't be surprised to see the rest of the Carlow publicans trying to pull something like this, ****.

aphex™

Yes i know somebody who has a pub, lowered prices, and was asked by the other publicans in the area to put back up the prices.

It was implied that when her liscence is up for renewal, the other pubicans could all come in and complain about the trouble (made up, obviously) in the area due to her pub. THey would also say the area can't sustain the extra pub.

So she had no choice but to put prices up.

weemcd

Burago wrote:

Milk is fine with vodka, add a shot of kalua and you've got a white russian.

i can dig the big lebowski reference

blondie83

Was in England there recently with a few friends, and we were out for the night. Went up to buy a round for five people, and had change from a tenner! Imagine if it was like that here...sigh Actually on 2nd thoughts maybe that wouldn't be such a good idea - imagine if drink was that price here, just think about how incredibly drunk people would get. Any thoughts on this?

Sarky

blondie83 wrote:

imagine if drink was that price here, just think about how incredibly drunk people would get. Any thoughts on this?

Natural selection would sort it out.

jimi_t

blondie83 wrote:

Actually on 2nd thoughts maybe that wouldn't be such a good idea - imagine if drink was that price here, just think about how incredibly drunk people would get. Any thoughts on this?

Take America or France as a case study - both have extremely cheap prices, one has a drinking age older than the Irish and one has a drinking age younger but neither has the problems Ireland has with alcohol. The problem with the Irish is a cultural one, not one that can be alleviated by change in income or legislation. Imagine a prohibition in Ireland :rolleyes:
I reckon that if drink prices were on par with the US or other suitably cheap country, that we'd continue drinking the same (ridiculous) amount, but have a lot more disposable income which would probably be spent on some other vice.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Yes i know somebody who has a pub, lowered prices, and was asked by the other publicans in the area to put back up the prices.

great now im gonna have to try and sleep with boiling blood

Spalk0

The local pub and nightclub out in Balbriggan do like all drinks for 3 euro and all shots for 2 euro on a Friday night(i think) or something!dont seem to remember any other pubs around our way doing that!