Excessive cost of soft drinks.

Lou.m

6€ for a diet coke is normal in some places now apparently It was a normal diet coke in a pub. I was raging.


I think that is excessive. :mad:



The national average price for beer is €4.67, but filling a pint glass with fizzy orange can cost upwards of a fiver.

The average price of mineral water per litre nationally is €9.44, compared with €7.92 for stout.

It's more expensive for non drinkers.

RIP OFF!

Lou.m

It's mostly always Ice anyways.

The Backwards Man

I find that the less I buy soft drinks in a pub, the less the price of them annoys me.

wazky

So better off drinking alcohol then?, how will we ever adapt....

ScumLord

Whats worse is when you include people drinking soft drinks in a round and they seem to think soft drinks don't count and they shouldn't have to buy a round back.

The Moldy Gowl

It's so you won't not drink again.

You will just say **** buying the 1 7up, I might as well drink 2 or 3 pints.

So now your spending 15 instead of 5. Make sense.

Economics yo

Augmerson

ScumLord wrote: »

Whats worse is when you include people drinking soft drinks in a round and they seem to think soft drinks don't count and they shouldn't have to buy a round back.

SCUMBAGS, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.

darkpagandeath

Will be worse when the sugar tax comes a knocking, Poor publicans have to raise prices because of our cheap drink in off-licences. Even though our drink is the 2nd most expensive in the EU

K4t

Blackcurrant MiWadi and red lemonade ftw

Augmerson

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Will be worse when the sugar tax comes a knocking, Poor publicans have to raise prices because of our cheap drink in off-licences. Even though our drink is the 2nd most expensive in the EU

Ha....serious?

darkpagandeath

Augmerson wrote: »

Ha....serious?

Yup just a few threads on boards about it.

Grayson

Augmerson wrote: »

Ha....serious?

The poor publicans will lobby the government to have shops close at 10pm. Otherwise we'll have people buying lucozade just to drink at home. Could you imagine how that would affect their business?

marklazarcovic

we been screwed left right and centre for anything , if everyone ordered miwadi instead of soft drinks the price would rocket

Augmerson

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Yup just a few threads on boards about it.

I wish they'd get it over with and just start taxing air.

kingtut

OP I hope you complained to management and / or refused to pay!
Those prices are a complete joke!

mikemac1

The price of rock shandys would drive a man to drink

darkpagandeath

kingtut wrote: »

OP I hope you complained to management and / or refused to pay!
Those prices are a complete joke!

You have to make up for all them designated drivers not drinking pints some how. :pac:

I never pay for soft drinks in a pub (unless they come with vodka or rum in them!) as the prices are pretty ridiculous. If I'm in a pub and not drinking alcohol then I just stick to tap water.

Outside of the pub though, one thing I noticed in other European countries (Germany and Switzerland in particular) is that 500 ml bottles of soft drinks seem to be ridiculously expensive - €2 and upwards seems to be the normal price. In Munich I could buy a bottle of beer for cheaper than a bottle of Coke, which struck me as a bit odd.

Lyaiera

My local has switched entirely to cans of soft drinks. They asked a good few people would they mind not getting a bottle and everyone said if the price stayed the same, which it did, then getting more in a can was better. So now it's €2 or so for a 330ml can instead of a 180ml or 220ml or whatever bottle. People drinking shorts can share a can, and people drinking soft drinks get more for their money.

Of course this is a successful local that looks after its customers with deals so I can only imagine the rip off places up'ing the prices should they ever switch to cans.

Pablodreamsofnew

The most I've paid is 10 euro for a small bottle of coke in Norway :O

So Ireland seems super cheap now!

mikemac1

You make it sound like it was a move to look after loyal customers

The publican is likely making even more profit from the cans which can be bought cheaper then the bottles. You can get cans easily, the bottles have to come from a distributor

Yellowblackbird

We usually pre drink in someones apartment, stockpiles of 7up, club orange and coke. I down 2 litres of coke before I even hit the pub. One glass of coke keeps me ticking over then for a few hours.

anncoates

Bring back the splash!

stimpson

Yellowblackbird wrote: »

We usually pre drink in someones apartment, stockpiles of 7up, club orange and coke. I down 2 litres of coke before I even hit the pub. One glass of coke keeps me ticking over then for a few hours.

We just smuggle in 2 litres of Club orange in the wife's handbag.

Arthur Beesley

I wonder have non alcohol drinking punters started sneaking these bad boys into the pubs yet:

https://www.google.ie/search?q=robinsons+squash'd&rls=com.microsoft:en-IE:IE-SearchBox&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=TSLhU7ewNKmN7AaOzYG4CA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=609

cloud493

Pay for over priced drink or get 3 cans of vanilla coke for €1.50 :pac:

Lou.m

kingtut wrote: »

OP I hope you complained to management and / or refused to pay!
Those prices are a complete joke!

I was embarrassed to.

Lyaiera

mikemac1 wrote: »

You make it sound like it was a move to look after loyal customers

The publican is likely making even more profit from the cans which can be bought cheaper then the bottles. You can get cans easily, the bottles have to come from a distributor

Well, considering we asked for it. And the barman asked the boss.

UCDVet

Soft-drink prices are the reason I stopped eating out in Dublin. It's absolute madness. The food itself is reasonably priced, not cheap, but fair enough. I'd take my wife out for dinner and I'd have two cokes, she'd have one, then the bill comes and we've paid 12-15 quid for Coke. Usually warm coke at that.

For comparison, it's about 5-6 times more expensive than the same drink you'd get in the US. Insanity.

TheDriver

Whats more annoying is that frown you get when you say "just water" when ordering food from some young wan who things you should be buying drink with your food. Had some young pr**k in Milano's tell me they don't do tap water..........wasn't long before he brought me my glass of freshly poured tap water.

Am I correct in that there is a law that eating establishments HAVE to give you tap water with your dinner??

takamichinoku

UCDVet wrote: »

Soft-drink prices are the reason I stopped eating out in Dublin. It's absolute madness. The food itself is reasonably priced, not cheap, but fair enough. I'd take my wife out for dinner and I'd have two cokes, she'd have one, then the bill comes and we've paid 12-15 quid for Coke. Usually warm coke at that.

For comparison, it's about 5-6 times more expensive than the same drink you'd get in the US. Insanity.

I was fierce bemused in the US when I discovered so many places let you serve yourself the drinks and you could refill a few times over without them giving a ****. Kept going over to ask if it was okay and all.

Honestly though, at 6 euro or whatever, I'd just drink water for the night. Maybe start bringing some of those tablet things that add flavour to it or something if I wanted it to have some kind of taste.

Isn't the point of the crazy price so that you don't manage to get off not having to buy your non drinking friend a drink in a round anyways and they get dragged into the whole expensive rounds buying thing too? The amount of money my dad used to have waste on buying his whole family of teetotallers 7up at weddings/etc was insane.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

€6 for a pint of Club Orange I was charged recently. Was either that or drink tap water.

Snippet of a recent TV report on the nonsense:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6qz5Rxe2fg

Overheal

So much for catering to designated drivers and safer roadways eh?

UCDVet

Overheal wrote: »

So much for catering to designated drivers and safer roadways eh?

That's a fair point. I was coming from the 'Man, I want a Pepsi with dinner' - but there are more serious implications for designated drivers.

At a pub, no way could I justify paying these prices for a soft-drink. I'd be inclined to just get a pint and 'pace myself'.

mikeym

According to the old minister of health we should be paying more for fizzy drinks.

Arthur Beesley

UCDVet wrote: »

That's a fair point. I was coming from the 'Man, I want a Pepsi with dinner' - but there are more serious implications for designated drivers.

At a pub, no way could I justify paying these prices for a soft-drink. I'd be inclined to just get a pint and 'pace myself'.

Who drinks Pepsi? Muck.

dub_skav

That vfi guy was so typical of the delusional pub trade, gouging gits

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Who drinks Pepsi? Muck.

Dangerous muck.

darkpagandeath

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller wrote: »

Dangerous muck.

Being alive can cause cancer .... If i had a cent for everything the papers scientists reckon gives you cancer..

FortuneChip

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Being alive can cause cancer .... If i had a cent for everything the papers scientists reckon gives you cancer..

You could afford a soft drink in a pub?

KungPao

I imagine it's because most people not drinking alcohol would never be able to sit there drinking 6+ pints of soft drinks with their alcohol drinking buddies...so they want as much money as possible for the few soft drinks that are bought. It's very cheeky.

The place I play snooker in has a bar that sells pints of beer for €5.20 BUT it's just €1.50 for 33cl cans of soft drinks...poured into pint glasses with ice for you. The way it should be.

Gongoozler

Sorry but where are ye all paying these ridiculous prices in Dublin? I drink soft drinks out all the time and while yeah I consider them expensive, they're around €3 a bottle. Who is charging €6!?

PeteK*

For the past few years, you can get three FREE cokes during mid-November to the 1st of January...

A lot of places do it.. http://www.DesignatedDriver.ie/

Overheal

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Being alive can cause cancer

Technically.

monflat

The excessive price of soft drinks is especially for certain tourists who come in groups sit in a pub and nurse ONE coke between them for 3 hours while availing of the free music session goin on

Overheal

monflat wrote: »

The excessive price of soft drinks is especially for certain tourists who come in groups sit in a pub and nurse ONE coke between them for 3 hours while availing of the free music session goin on

Yes yes the spanish student thing that made me go ape**** thinking Ireland was populated by bigoted indigenous douchenozzles.

If places are concerned about it they can always impose a door charge.

mikemac1

Gongoozler wrote: »

Sorry but where are ye all paying these ridiculous prices in Dublin? I drink soft drinks out all the time and while yeah I consider them expensive, they're around €3 a bottle. Who is charging €6!?

Nobody mentioned 6 euro a bottle

It's for 6 for a pint of coke or a rock shandy, examples like that

FortuneChip

Overheal wrote: »

Yes yes the spanish student thing that made me go ape**** thinking Ireland was populated by bigoted indigenous douchenozzles.

If places are concerned about it they can always impose a door charge.

That would annoy alcohol drinking folk who are only willing to pay into somewhere that opens late.

Overheal

FortuneChip wrote: »

That would annoy alcohol drinking folk who are only willing to pay into somewhere that opens late.

then change the policy to max 2 people sharing a drink or something, hell idk

FortuneChip

Overheal wrote: »

then change the policy to max 2 people sharing a drink or something, hell idk

You'll struggle to find anyone that does.
The only option (and it's not possible) is for pub owners to stop charging extortionate amounts for soft drinks.
My uncle was telling me that the Old Dubliner was charging 2 or 3 euro for a dash of cordial!

wretcheddomain

Lou.m wrote: »

I think that is excessive.

The national average price for beer is €4.67, but filling a pint glass with fizzy orange can cost upwards of a fiver.

A pint of orange?