Onion rings in chippers. (and other unbelievable mark ups)

Ghandee

My local chipper does great onion rings, but at nearly €3 for three rings, I'm reckoning a single onion must be worth about thirty quid to a chipper!:eek:

Surely one of the greatest mark ups available on our island?

Any other examples?

cosmicfart

Yeah but free grease is priceless

Biggins

Popcorn?

Ghandee

Biggins wrote: »

Popcorn?

Dont even get me started on that! Especially in the cinema!:mad:

Kevin Duffy

All day breakfast in AH yesterday, chipper tea today. I musta missed dinner while I was in work.

vicwatson

5.50 in Eddie Rockets for Onion Rings :eek::eek:

Dravokivich

It's about the only part of my produce that I'm not partial to.

Gerry Manderer

Ghandee wrote: »

My local chipper does great onion rings, but at nearly €3 for three rings, I'm reckoning a single onion must be worth about thirty quid to a chipper!:eek:

Surely one of the greatest mark ups available on our island?

Any other examples?

But what about the cost of the oil it's fried in, the wages of the man that cooks it for you, the bag it goes into, the salt, the vineger, the electricity...the cost includes all of these factors my man, not just the onion

OutlawPete

Pizza.

Mr. Denton

Champagne in lap-dancing clubs. Very unreasonable.

Stained Class

Bottled Water.

Dearer than Uranium apparently.

Glico Man

OutlawPete wrote: »

Pizza.

True that... I can get a 9" Chicago Town Pizza for £2 while a carry out delivery from Domino's is £6.99

Fupin' rip off, especially when Tesco's do 3 Chicago Town Pizza's for £4.99.

lil-ms-vodka

Ghandee wrote: »

My local chipper does great onion rings, but at nearly €3 for three rings, I'm reckoning a single onion must be worth about thirty quid to a chipper!:eek:

Surely one of the greatest mark ups available on our island?

Any other examples?

What chipper you going to?? Majority i've seen have been €1.50 for 3 :eek:

Warper

The king of markup is chicken wings - i mean you can get 2 chickens for a portion of chicken wings

parker kent

Mr. Denton wrote: »

Champagne in lap-dancing clubs. Very unreasonable.

I like the fact that a poster named giggsy thanked that post.

easyeason3

Caesar Salad.
Prices vary but the cheapest I've seen is €9. €9 for a few shreds of chicken, a bit of a rasher, lettuce & some dressing.
Fcuking scandalous :mad:

Kinky Slinky

Bottled water

amandaf675

nah the biggest mark up is chips! 2.20 for a bag of chips that uses 4 potatoes out of a 25 kg bad that costs bout 6euro per bag bulk price..
i work in a chipper.. so i know haha

bc dub

I like the batter more then the content

7sr2z3fely84g5

Bottles of coke,price of coke in pub.

Yitzhak Rabin

Tea. You can pay up €2-3 for a cup of tea. Its flippin hot water and a teabag!

racso1975

Price of a pint of water with a dash of cordial

7sr2z3fely84g5

Razor blades.....again.

LighterGuy

Biggins wrote: »

Popcorn?

I said this before on boards.ie might as well say it again.
I worked in 3 cinemas in recent years. In 2008 I worked in the savoy cinema in town. I was talking to a staff member one day about popcorn and its prices (as people were complaining) he said him and another girl were bored one day and calculated it out. Cineams make about 600% profit for every bag of popcorn.

Yes. 600%.
Popcorn is cheap, easy to store and make and has an established over-priced cost when bought in the cinema. Its a money maker.

themadchef

Youre either paying for something you either dont have the skill to make or the time in which make it.

What price do you suggest it sells for? How about the price people are willing to pay. €5 too expensive? The will close because no matter how fecking hungry you are you'd want to be stupid to pay that kind of money for 3 bits of onion in batter. €3? You'd still want to be mad.


Madness is subjective.

Yitzhak Rabin

LighterGuy wrote: »

I said this before on boards.ie might as well say it again.
I worked in 3 cinemas in recent years. In 2008 I worked in the savoy cinema in town. I was talking to a staff member one day about popcorn and its prices (as people were complaining) he said him and another girl were bored one day and calculated it out. Cineams make about 600% profit for every bag of popcorn.

Yes. 600%.
Popcorn is cheap, easy to store and make and has an established over-priced cost when bought in the cinema. Its a money maker.

Yeah but as I understand it, the popcorn subsidises the price of the cinema ticket?

Solnskaya

Coke - a kilo costs €2500.00 in South America, tops, and by the time it's cut and sold on the market here, a kilo is roughly €250,000.00. Thats just extortionate and the Competition Authority should deffo have a look at this. This kind of price gouging ought to be illegal...oh, wait..

Chris P. Bacon

Petrol.

7sr2z3fely84g5

christmas is a niche market,shops stock up on batteries.

Biggins

LighterGuy wrote: »

I said this before on boards.ie might as well say it again.
I worked in 3 cinemas in recent years. In 2008 I worked in the savoy cinema in town. I was talking to a staff member one day about popcorn and its prices (as people were complaining) he said him and another girl were bored one day and calculated it out. Cinemas make about 600% profit for every bag of popcorn.

Yes. 600%.
Popcorn is cheap, easy to store and make and has an established over-priced cost when bought in the cinema. Its a money maker.

Indeed.
Its been said to me before that cinema owners are very, VERY careful not to let it slip just how cheap they buy the stuff wholesale before they massively mark it up.

The big chains outright refuse to say anything in regards price, mark-up and full explanation as to how big the huge price gap, well besides the usual two line standard PR spin.

m@cc@

Incredible lack of understanding of the service industry shown.

There are more costs to a business other than the ingredients to produce food.

Clowns. :rolleyes:

Mr. Denton

Mr. Denton wrote: »

Champagne in lap-dancing clubs. Very unreasonable.

not to mention a lick off the rasher :pac:

Biggins

m@cc@ wrote: »

Incredible lack of understanding of the service industry shown.
There are more costs to a business other than the ingredients to produce food.
Clowns. :rolleyes:

No doubt. I run and have run other businesses myself in various guises and products.
However that still don't exclude some that are still totally taking the piss in all honestly too.

TheUsual

Must be a "Gourmet" onion ring.

Stick the word "Gourmet" before anything like a burger and you can charge 20 euro for it.
Gourmet Spiceburger anyone ?

m@cc@

Biggins wrote: »

However that still don't exclude some that are still totally taking the piss in all honestly too.

Supply and demand. Purchases are not mandatory as far as I'm aware.

Solnskaya

m@cc@ wrote: »

Incredible lack of understanding of the service industry shown.

There are more costs to a business other than the ingredients to produce food.

Clowns. :rolleyes:

Don't tell me they are upping the price of kids entertainers now as well. Scandalous.

Biggins

m@cc@ wrote: »

Supply and demand. Purchases are not mandatory as far as I'm aware.

Again true - but try telling that to a parent that has four kids who don't understand these things given their age at a cinema shop.

kfallon

What about coffee, paying someone to boil a kettle, throw a spoon of Nescafe into a mug, bit of milk and sugar and you are probably paying about €4 for it :rolleyes:

Chuck Stone

Horse sperm. Bloody disgrace.

Biggins

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Horse sperm. Bloody disgrace.

Suck it up big boy!

easyeason3

kfallon wrote: »

What about coffee, paying someone to boil a kettle, throw a spoon of Nescafe into a mug, bit of milk and sugar and you are probably paying about €4 for it :rolleyes:

A few places I get coffee have a proper coffee machine with lots of complicated looking things on it. Probably cost them a fortune.

I still prefer the coffee out of Topaz though

LighterGuy

yekahS wrote: »

Yeah but as I understand it, the popcorn subsidises the price of the cinema ticket?

Well, I'll give you a good example from my time in the savoy

Savoy didnt choose to show Sex and the City in 2008. Because the movie company wanted 80% of the ticket sales (something the owners of the savoy felt was too much) hence why they never showed it for anyone who was looking to when it came out

But the staff made a very good point. Savoy would make their money with the concession sales (popcorn especially)
From what I understand the opening weekend of a movie the movie company takes the biggest share. Roll on second week less share. third week lesser share. Its said the cinema never makes more than 30%.

This is why consessions at cinemas are so high. And when you hear that, you kinda realise why cinemas charge so much. If the movie companies lower the percentage, you would only then see consession prices lower.

Chuck Stone

Pedigree dogs. Paying big money for a semi-retarded in-bred when you can get a freindly, smart, loyal, healthy wee mut for free.

the_syco

LighterGuy wrote: »

Yes. 600%.
Popcorn is cheap, easy to store and make and has an established over-priced cost when bought in the cinema. Its a money maker.

Having worked in the cinemas, you will also know that popcorn is there main money maker, as they get a very low percentage for ticket sales, and thus must make all their money from food sales.

=-=

As for chips and onion rings, blame demand. If you run a chipper, where a large portion of your income is from chips, you will ensure that you get maximum profit from your chips.

julyjane

kfallon wrote: »

What about coffee, paying someone to boil a kettle, throw a spoon of Nescafe into a mug, bit of milk and sugar and you are probably paying about €4 for it :rolleyes:

A decent coffee machine will set a pub or restaurant back thousands, the cost of beans and maintenance of the machine are high enough too. A cup of coffee needs to be set at a certain price in order for them to expect a reasonable volume of sales to reach break even point before making a profit.

kfallon

easyeason3 wrote: »

A few places I get coffee have a proper coffee machine with lots of complicated looking things on it. Probably cost them a fortune.

I still prefer the coffee out of Topaz though

I prefer mine out of a jar and to make and drink it at home and not walk down the street with it held up high like it's some kind of trophy or status symbol.

"Ok so will we have that meeting now?"
"Oh wait I'll just grab a coffee and I'll be with you!"
"Shove your meeting up your fooking hoop ya cunt!"

kfallon

julyjane wrote: »

A decent coffee machine

aka a kettle!

TheUsual

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Horse sperm. Bloody disgrace.

I just puked a little.

julyjane

easyeason3 wrote: »

A few places I get coffee have a proper coffee machine with lots of complicated looking things on it. Probably cost them a fortune.

I still prefer the coffee out of Topaz though

Topaz coffee is not bad, any Topaz I've been to has had a machine that grinds the beans itself.

Terry

Alcohol lowers blood sugar levels and causes dehydraton.
This makes you feel hungry.

It also dulls the senses and makes you vulnerable to suggestion.
This makes you think that buying over-priced chipper food is a good idea.

You could go home and have a sandwich, but that seems like too much hassle when you're drunk.
The chippers win every time.

Paying those prices in soberiety is just idiotic.

Ricardo G

Penny sweets are now betwwen 5 and 10cent :rolleyes:
And they never made cent sweets so we are being screwed from all angles