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6.20 euro for a chicken fillet roll? The Boom is Bollixed

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  • 04-06-2019 5:16pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    Are we back to gouging, so, is that it?

    Pissing rain earlier. Went into Centra while I was waiting for a mate to finish work.
    "One chicken fillet roll, please; coleslaw and cheese, no butter"

    Was charged over eight euro for that, and a bottle of water at the till.

    I didn't make a scene, but I said "sorry I'm not paying that", and the lovely woman at the till kind of nodded at me in (maybe) agreement, so I went and ate elsewhere.

    My questions are threefold:

    Is gouging back?

    And isn't it all just self-defeating?

    And do you refuse to pay when being overcharged?


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    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    I'd pay and give out to someone later who couldn't do anything about it.


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    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,286 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    I can't find it within myself to feel pity for anyone prepared to eat a chicken fillet roll from one of those rancid deli counters...


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    Twenty Grand
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    Maybe she pressed the wrong button on the till?


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    BrokenArrows
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    You were not overcharged.
    That's the price and you didn't check it before you ordered.


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    Kingp35
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    lawred2 wrote: »
    I can't find it within myself to feel pity for anyone prepared to eat a chicken fillet roll from one of those rancid deli counters...

    You're missing out.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    lawred2 wrote: »
    I can't find it within myself to feel pity for anyone prepared to eat a chicken fillet roll from one of those rancid deli counters...

    Our greatest culinary delight. There's nothing you could give me on any day of the week that I'd want more.


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    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    You were not overcharged.
    That's the price and you didn't check it before you ordered.
    Overcharging is the request for a payment that is above and beyond that which is reasonable. Nobody was trying to cheat me, and this is only an illustrative example of a trend anyway.


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    Reati
    Registered Users Posts: 1,922 ✭✭✭Reati


    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    I'd pay and give out to someone later who couldn't do anything about it.

    The irish way! :D


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    lawred2
    Registered Users Posts: 24,286 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    You were not overcharged.
    That's the price and you didn't check it before you ordered.

    I believe he was undercharged...

    there should be a 75% levy on that crap paid directly into a managed health service fund for the purposes of paying for his inevitable palliative treatment


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    punisher5112
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    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    You were not overcharged.
    That's the price and you didn't check it before you ordered.

    Since when, most places it's €3 or €3.50....

    I've seen it at €4.50 but never over €5 never mind €6.20 that is absolutely crazy and then chicken fillets are actually coming in from China.... Yes China....


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    Tell me how
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    lawred2 wrote: »
    I can't find it within myself to feel pity for anyone prepared to eat a chicken fillet roll from one of those rancid deli counters...

    I'd be willing to bet the cleanliness of a lot of deli counters is by a distance cleaner than many cafe/restaurant kitchens given the fact that it is right in front of the customers eyes.

    As for the food, again, probably same ingredients/supplier/cooking method as your average lunchtime restaurant. Price is the main reason I stay away.


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    lawred2
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    Kingp35 wrote: »
    You're missing out.

    On coronary disease and bowel cancer :D


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    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    You really configured that Chicken Fillet Roll poorly, I have to say.


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    lawred2 wrote: »
    On coronary disease and bowel cancer :D

    Chances are you'll get a cancer of some sort anyway. Or breaking something if you ever fall off that horse.


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    mattser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭mattser


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Are we back to gouging, so, is that it?

    Pissing rain earlier. Went into Centra while I was waiting for a mate to finish work.
    "One chicken fillet roll, please; coleslaw and cheese, no butter"

    Was charged over eight euro for that, and a bottle of water at the till.

    I didn't make a scene, but I said "sorry I'm not paying that", and the lovely woman at the till kind of nodded at me in (maybe) agreement, so I went and ate elsewhere.

    My questions are threefold:

    Is gouging back?

    And isn't it all just self-defeating?

    And do you refuse to pay when being overcharged?

    And of course you have to start a thread on this.
    The onus was on you to check the price first.
    You put a staff member to the trouble of preparing the roll, and then got the hump at the till.
    The staff are the ones hard done by here, plus good food was wasted.


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    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


    In what lovely post code of Dublin was this??

    6.20 is a bit on the dear side, I don't think I'd have had the voice to say wasn't paying that, I'd have paid for it, walked outside and and never gone back!!!

    I'd love a Chicken Roll now though!!!


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    JohnnyFlash
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    Was it a moody Eastern European who slapped it together for you? They sometimes count cheese as a second meat when they are over sulking at the pricing machine.


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    J Mysterio wrote: »
    You really configured that Chicken Fillet Roll poorly, I have to say.
    Rubber chicken... coleslaw... cheese... all the major food groups, surely?


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    lawred2
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    OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »
    Chances are you'll get a cancer of some sort anyway. Or breaking something if you ever fall off that horse.

    it's a fairly small horse


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    Always Tired
    Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Always Tired


    If things are that tight that the possible price fluctuations on a chicken fillet roll pose such a big danger, would you not find out the price (usually signposted) before ordering and making the staff member waste their time and the food?

    Or make your own?

    If we can't control rent prices in this country then we have little hope of reforming the chicken fillet roll industry.


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    JohnnyFlash
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Rubber chicken... coleslaw... cheese... all the major food groups, surely?

    Mechanically separated chicken, Tyrant. Usually bound together with gristle, skin, and boiled connective tissue. Plenty of water, salt, preservatives and gumming agent as well.


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    dhaughton99
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    Reati wrote: »
    The irish way! :D

    The Boards.ie way!


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    #24
    GBX
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    Its not over priced to some and other will pay without complaint. You did right not paying for it though


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    AndyBoBandy
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    I came in here thinking a chicken fillet roll was some sort of sexual innuendo code word, and someone was giving/taking them for only 6.20, nd thinking 'sign me up for some of that'


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    mattser wrote: »
    And of course you have to start a thread on this.
    The onus was on you to check the price first.
    You put a staff member to the trouble of preparing the roll, and then got the hump at the till.
    The staff are the ones hard done by here, plus good food was wasted.
    In my defence, as a protestant it is against my religion to pay anything higher than knock-down prices at a deli counter.

    Time was when I used to pay 2.99 euro for a chicken fillet roll in Centra Dame Street. You'd nearly miss the recession, some times.
    major bill wrote: »
    In what lovely post code of Dublin was this??
    Dublin 1, but in an area with a lot of office-blocks, which maybe explains it.

    Stop dwelling on my bad culinary choices lads! Is gouging back, or what?


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    J Mysterio
    Registered Users Posts: 11,035 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Rubber chicken... coleslaw... cheese... all the major food groups, surely?


    Spicy chicken
    Mayonnaise

    Lettuce
    Tomato
    Red Onion



    And... the piece de resistance.. Sweetcorn.


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    Plumbthedepths
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    mattser wrote:
    good food was wasted.


    I agree with everything you said except this part.


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    Cordell
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Mechanically separated chicken, Tyrant. Usually bound together with gristle, skin, and boiled connective tissue. Plenty of water, salt, preservatives and gumming agent as well.

    No problem whatsoever, same as in frankfurters and mc chicken nuggets and luncheon meat and god knows what others. It's better to not know.


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    SteM
    Registered Users Posts: 6,556 ✭✭✭SteM


    Some centras around rown were selling the same roll for €3.50 a few years back. They were overpriced then.


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    corner of hells
    Registered Users Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Are we back to gouging, so, is that it?

    Pissing rain earlier. Went into Centra while I was waiting for a mate to finish work.
    "One chicken fillet roll, please; coleslaw and cheese, no butter"

    Was charged over eight euro for that, and a bottle of water at the till.

    I didn't make a scene, but I said "sorry I'm not paying that", and the lovely woman at the till kind of nodded at me in (maybe) agreement, so I went and ate elsewhere.

    My questions are threefold:

    Is gouging back?

    And isn't it all just self-defeating?

    And do you refuse to pay when being overcharged?

    The reason is so expensive is because of the "rain tax".


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