€7.45 for a pint in a certain establishment!

Kermit.de.frog

Check it out! Customer got 10c change out of €20 for 2 pints and 2 packets of crisps!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/would-you-pay-this-much-for-a-pint-637152.html

Here is the reciept :mad:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtNlQ24IUAEaTe3.jpg


Urgh. People have to know about this price gouging. Personally I would have left but clearly tourists are in a more invidious position.

Dravokivich

Fúck the pint, 2.50 for a packet of crisps!?

It's almost like this picture the receipt thing is a game. What do people expect? After all the commotion made on the Huffington Posts website, where's the shock in it anymore? That they decided not to lower their prices?

Wossack

Temple Bar pub in overpriced pint shocker

munchkin_utd

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Check it out! Customer got 10c out of €20 for 2 pints and 2 packets of crisps!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/would-you-pay-this-much-for-a-pint-637152.html

Here is the reciept :mad:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtNlQ24IUAEaTe3.jpg


Urgh. People have to know about this price gouging.

this has come up before with this pub in particular, but in their own defence they have pointed out that they have live music over the day and rather than charge a cover they add that onto the pint cost. It's even there on the reciept.

Theres better pubs, with no music, round the corner for normal-ish prices if you wanted to pay less.

VinLieger

Loads of places around their hike prices to ridiculous levels after 11pm, possibly to compensate for all the pre-drinking people are doing now due to the high prices anyway, so yeah broken pricing system is broken

mickydoomsux

Go somewhere that isn't a tourist trap if you don't want to get ripped off.

vicwatson

Free music though :eek:

Dravokivich

munchkin_utd wrote: »

this has come up before with this pub in particular, but in their own defence they have pointed out that they have live music over the day and rather than charge a cover they add that onto the pint cost. It's even there on the reciept.

Theres better pubs, with no music, round the corner for normal-ish prices if you wanted to pay less.

That's an excuse, not a reason. Plenty of pubs provide entertainment without a cover charge.

ratracer

Ah come on now, the poor auld publican needs to make a living too ya know. Did you not hear that Garry Brookes cost him €50m....:P

Banjo String

And the VFI are complaining about empty pubs, lobbying the got to increase prices in supermarkets?

Also as pointed out 2.50 for a bag of tayto


No sympathy. Greedy shower of whores.

gandalf

Vote with your feet. As long as silly people keep staggering into their establishment and hand over their hard earned cash these businesses won't change.

If you know anyone coming over to visit recommend that they go else where and don't get ripped off by these gougers!

Banjo String

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Go somewhere that isn't a tourist trap if you don't want to get ripped off.

Hardly gonna do our tourism any good if we rip them off in 'tourist traps'.


There's no excuse for that that's gouging, plain and simple.

Duggy747

People are staying at home eating their crisps, the government needs to act to increase crisp prices in shops and supermarkets to get people back into the pub to eat crisps.

It's been a tradition, along with a glass bottle of Lucozade, and will help rebuild our country's foundation which was founded on cheese & onion.

mickydoomsux

Banjo String wrote: »

Hardly gonna do our tourism any good if we rip them off in 'tourist traps'.


There's no excuse for that that's gouging, plain and simple.

Go to any other tourist-y area in any other country and you'll experience the same thing.

BeerWolf

Idea - don't go there then.

Bog Standard User

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Check it out! Customer got 10c change out of €20 for 2 pints and 2 packets of crisps!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/would-you-pay-this-much-for-a-pint-637152.html

Here is the reciept :mad:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtNlQ24IUAEaTe3.jpg


Urgh. People have to know about this price gouging. Personally I would have left but clearly tourists are in a more invidious position.

stand outside and warn tourists that they are being ripped off in that pub see how long it takes before they drop their prices

SteelyDanJalapeno

we got a 15 pack of Tayto for 2 euro in the weekly shop, 35.50 cent profit if I sell them in here!

Can imagine they're getting them for a lot cheaper too

floggg

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Check it out! Customer got 10c change out of €20 for 2 pints and 2 packets of crisps!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/discover/would-you-pay-this-much-for-a-pint-637152.html

Here is the reciept :mad:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtNlQ24IUAEaTe3.jpg


Urgh. People have to know about this price gouging. Personally I would have left but clearly tourists are in a more invidious position.

FFS. It's the Temple Bar.

Anybody going there deserves to get fleeced.

GarIT

That's cheap compared to Maynooth.

Tombi!

Meanwhile there are places that do student nights that give 3 euro a pint and you get servered within a minute or two

It might be a tourist trap but a lot of the pubs around Temple Bar are terrible from my experience.

errlloyd

Tourists are well aware that temple bar, like the area around the eiffel tower, central Munich and other tourism districts is going to be a lot more expensive.

Most go into the temple bar, buy one pint suck up a bit of music and leave with a memory worth something. 18e admission into the Guinness storehouse however......

Banjo String

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Go to any other tourist-y area in any other country and you'll experience the same thing.

Was in Antwerp earlier in the year. Kinda touristy tbh, but 1.65 for a bottle of Jupiler.

Drink a bottle of Jupiler and compare it to a pint of syrupy heinousken. Tell me who is being ripped off.

Kermit.de.frog

BeerWolf wrote: »

Idea - don't go there then.

Most Irish people would have more sense but tourists are told they should visit Temple Bar first in Dublin (don't ask me why) and this is what greets them. It's robbery.

manlad

BeerWolf wrote: »

Idea - don't go there then.

Its not just about Irish people not going to the pub. Its in the tourist hub of Dublin, and probably one of the most popular bars that tourists will go to. Its pretty unfair to subject them to such prices.

floggg

gandalf wrote: »

Vote with your feet. As long as silly people keep staggering into their establishment and hand over their hard earned cash these businesses won't change.

If you know anyone coming over to visit recommend that they go else where and don't get ripped off by these gougers!

Please. Tourists loves that ****.

I know plenty who have chosen temple bar over good city centre/Camden st. They love the tackiness and over abundance of other drunk tourists carrying their Carroll's gift store bags.

Leave em too it. They can consider the extra €2-3 a contribution to the national recovery.

Knex*

"No cover charge", it proudly states on the same receipt documenting their near robbery of whomever bought the pints. Lolz.

For the same price, customer could have had two steak dinners and 4 pints in Diceys last night, if they went there instead. Although, its nearly worth paying the extra not to :pac:

B0jangles

Duggy747 wrote: »

People are staying at home eating their crisps, the government needs to act to increase crisp prices in shops and supermarkets to get people back into the pub to eat crisps.

It's been a tradition, along with a glass bottle of Lucozade, and will help rebuild our country's foundation which was founded on cheese & onion.

You advocate a Taytolitarian State???

Sam Kade

Do they have their prices displayed?

floggg

Banjo String wrote: »

Was in Antwerp earlier in the year. Kinda touristy tbh, but 1.65 for a bottle of Jupiler.

Drink a bottle of Jupiler and compare it to a pint of syrupy heinousken. Tell me who is being ripped off.

I went to a bar on istanbul this spring and was charged something like €6 for a bottle of corona.

By Turkish standards, I'd say it was 2-3 times over priced.



I've been over charged in every country I've ever visited. I've even seen places with differently priced menus for English and native speakers.

It's an occupational hazard when your a tourist visiting city centre spots.

Cienciano

I don't see a problem, the place is full 7 nights a week, why wouldn't they charge that if people are willing to pay?

quadrifoglio verde

Shock horror a publican charges what people are willing to pay. He's a business not a charity, if someone is willing to pay that much, why shouldn't he?

wretcheddomain

Cienciano wrote: »

I don't see a problem, the place is full 7 nights a week, why wouldn't they charge that if people are willing to pay?

Precisely - it's a business and businesses are set up to create profit, I know this will come as a surprise to many people here.

Any tourist worth the name knows perfectly well if they step foot into the tourist traps of Dublin, they're likely to pay much more.

The prerogative, therefore, is on the tourist and it's up to them whether they want to take the risk. Many won't mind paying that price at all as they'll look at it as an experience in a pub in the "famous Temple Bar".

suicide_circus

Is it one of those "prices increase by a euro after 11pm" deals? Even still it's extortionate. But no one is forced to drink there. 20 minutes walk away you can get a pint for less than half that

ThunbergsAreGo

Cienciano wrote: »

I don't see a problem, the place is full 7 nights a week, why wouldn't they charge that if people are willing to pay?

Alot of tourists would go "for the music" and would happily sit there nursing a pint for more than an hour and then leave. Its a tough balance to strike. Its not really there to cater for the

That said anyone that comes over, i tell them to avoid temple bar or at the very least be prepared to spend some $$$

Duggy747

B0jangles wrote: »

You advocate a Taytolitarian State???

If it were up to me, I'd rule with an iron crisp.

Cookie_Monster

so prob one of the most expensive pints in Dublin? Still cheaper than the average here

Banjo String

floggg wrote: »

I went to a bar on istanbul this spring and was charged something like €6 for a bottle of corona.

By Turkish standards, I'd say it was 2-3 times over priced.



I've been over charged in every country I've ever visited. I've even seen places with differently priced menus for English and native speakers.

It's an occupational hazard when your a tourist visiting city centre spots.

Tbf corona would be an imported beer, should've drank efes. Not a bad beer (actually it's lovely)

I know carlsberg/Heineken aren't Irish beers either, but Tbf they're brewed here and aren't seen as 'premiums'.

conorhal

Banjo String wrote: »

And the VFI are complaining about empty pubs, lobbying the got to increase prices in supermarkets?

Also as pointed out 2.50 for a bag of tayto


No sympathy. Greedy shower of whores.

Except that the empty pubs aren't the ones charging 7.50 for a pint, it's the ones like The Temple Bar that are packed to the rafters 7 days a week, supply and demand my friend.

In the interests of fairness though, pints bought after midnight are pricey, late licence, entertainment costs and staff costs etc.

How many post midnight pints do people consume after midnight anhow? As the night edges towards closing time I'm usually at the sipping and running for a piss every 15 minutes stage so I'm not hammering them back.

It's touristy temple bar, go someplace else. It wil cost you 12 euro for a coffee in St. Marks Square in Venice, two streets back it will cost you a euro. A cafe in St. Marks Square can charge you for a coffee and the view, Temple Bar will charge you for the beer and the 'craic', both can be had elsewhere.

Idbatterim

you really have to wonder at what point is the point of diminishing returns. I mean us dubs probably would drink there if it was E5.50 a pint. But do the tourists actually stay around and pay this or get fleeced once and thats it? Its a depraved amount for something you will be pissing out a short while later & for Heineken or the other usual s**t we have on tap here?!

floggg

Banjo String wrote: »

Tbf corona would be an imported beer, should've drank efes. Not a bad beer (actually it's lovely)

I know carlsberg/Heineken aren't Irish beers either, but Tbf they're brewed here and aren't seen as 'premiums'.

I can't recall what it was. It was a long neck and not efes anyway. Efes wasn't an option in that place.

I didn't mind paying it even if I was being ripped off. We went for the experience (it was apparently on of istanbul's best gay clubs) and left after our one over priced drink.

Pretty much how most people would feel about the temple bar I'm sure.

hardCopy

TiltedBrain wrote: »

we got a 15 pack of Tayto for 2 euro in the weekly shop, 35.50 cent profit if I sell them in here!

Can imagine they're getting them for a lot cheaper too

Markup =/= Profit

EoghanIRL

If only they had Dutch gold on tap .

MonkstownHoop

The music is head wrecking, I'd expect free drink in return of having to listen to that

MonkstownHoop

Oh and all hail wetherspoons

floggg

Idbatterim wrote: »

you really have to wonder at what point is the point of diminishing returns. I mean us dubs probably would drink there if it was E5.50 a pint. But do the tourists actually stay around and pay this or get fleeced once and thats it? Its a depraved amount for something you will be pissing out a short while later & for Heineken or the other usual s**t we have on tap here?!

Not a dub but id never drink in temple bar if I had the choice. It's not the price either - it's the faux irishness and giddy tourists in their Carroll's tshirts and hoodies.

And they wouldn't charge it if they weren't getting away with it. I'd say most temple bar pubs print money. As long as tourists don't leave the bubble, they don't know any better.

suicide_circus

Idbatterim wrote: »

you really have to wonder at what point is the point of diminishing returns. I mean us dubs probably would drink there if it was E5.50 a pint. But do the tourists actually stay around and pay this or get fleeced once and thats it? Its a depraved amount for something you will be pissing out a short while later & for Heineken or the other usual s**t we have on tap here?!

the thing is, the place is basically packed all day 7 days a week, full of tourists, beggars belief.

Lapin

floggg wrote: »

I've been over charged in every country I've ever visited.

There is something depressingly sad about that.


As for the OP, the high cost of dring in that place is well documented but the €2.50 cost of of a packet of crisps is a new one on me.

That really is a fúcking blatent rip off and price gouging at it's lowest.

Bog Standard User

Duggy747 wrote: »

If it were up to me, I'd rule with an iron crisp.

if you was in usa people might think you had a chip on your shoulder :P

strobe

I dunno. If it came time for your contract renewal in your job, you chanced your arm and asked for 100k, your employer said yeah no problem, would you then jump in and say "no no, 50k is grand, that's what's fair"? You would in your bollix. Why shouldn't they charge it if people are willing to pay?

riffmongous

But with those prices are you not encouraging people to order less and then leave?

And of course do they advertise prices? Particularly the crisps

Dravokivich

riffmongous wrote: »

But with those prices are you not encouraging people to order less and then leave?

And of course do they advertise prices? Particularly the crisps

They are meant to have a price list for all drinks served at the entry.