Price gouging by the pub, restaurant & hotel industry

I put a link up the other day to a 25kg bag that was about €16. And that's retail prices for 1 bag. A commercial enterprise buying in bulk pays not much more than half that, I'd say.

Price gouging is an ongoing thing since covid. I know it's not pub/restaurant but my hairdresser increased prices to cover Covid protection/cleaning products , then for increase in electricity prices then announced they might have to increase again if VAT rate changed.

All seem valid reasons until Covid stopped being an issue but prices didnt drop to reflect this

Before Covid I could get hair colour/cut for 65 Euro but now has increased to 86 so needless to say home colour is on trend in my house . Not a hope will I pay that in a rural hairdressers

Why do so many people in this thread eat in hotels?!

Just think its weird that if you have the disposable income to do so you'd spend it in a hotel restaurant

Problem with Ireland this year is because the weather is so **** that there is literally nothing else to do other than eat out or go on the piss. So every restaurant is jammed all the time and can easily increase prices and cut corners on quality.

...tis all relative, yup its been a pretty sh1te summer, but don the wet gear and get out there....

some people have the money, some dont, if you re waiting for the masses to force the change, you might be waiting!

We are getting record numbers passing through the ports this year. So there is no drop in the flow of folks coming into the country. Quite the opposite.

Sounds like overall tourism is down a little vs peak pre covid, though Dublin is constantly opening new hotels and they all seem full.

Also still plenty of locals out spending 7 euro a pint without a flicker.

Some of the best eateries in the city are in hotels, so non guests will of course eat there.

in short, there will be no price dropping in the short term, in Dublin at least.

If you are staying in the hotel for a night or two, usually dine in their bar or restaurant or if a bit flush, will treat myself to a meal out which whether a hotel eatery or normal cafe restaurant bar etc., can still be expensive but some extortionate

Unsustainable.

That's nearly double the price

Temple Bar has always been expensive compared to the rest of Dublin

I can understand why people sometimes bring their own stash

Is there any thatched homely Irish food pubs with music in Dublin?

I also tell anyone avoid Temple Bar for food and drink

Last "gastro" pub i went into (I wont be going into anymore of them after the eye watering bill) I went into at 12:30 on a Sunday.

This place was a normal pub with notions tbh. When we walked in the door we were ambushed by a waitress with a clipboard before we could sit down. We said "table for 3 please".

"Do you have a reservation".

"err. no"

"Let me see if we can fit you in". Goes off for 2 minutes and comes back and says, "we have a cancellation, let me show you to your table"

So we sat down at a table in a pub with maybe 4 other families having lunch, ordered our food which came at 1:00. Spent about an hour and a half eating and had a pint after the meal. Left at about 3pm. All the while the place we needed a reservation for never had anymore than 5 tables occupied.

The bill is another story, and the reason I wont ever be darkening the door of a "gastropub" ever again.