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

Ghandee · 23-05-2011 10:27PM #1

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 · 23-05-2011 10:29PM

Yeah but free grease is priceless

Biggins · 23-05-2011 10:31PM

Popcorn?

Ghandee · 23-05-2011 10:32PM

Biggins wrote: »

Popcorn?

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

Kevin Duffy · 23-05-2011 10:34PM

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

vicwatson · 23-05-2011 10:35PM

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

Dravokivich · 23-05-2011 10:35PM

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

Gerry Manderer · 23-05-2011 10:38PM

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 · 23-05-2011 10:39PM

Pizza.

Mr. Denton · 23-05-2011 10:49PM

Champagne in lap-dancing clubs. Very unreasonable.

Stained Class · 23-05-2011 10:51PM

Bottled Water.

Dearer than Uranium apparently.

Glico Man · 23-05-2011 10:55PM

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 · 23-05-2011 10:58PM

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 · 23-05-2011 11:02PM

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

parker kent · 23-05-2011 11:05PM

Mr. Denton wrote: »

Champagne in lap-dancing clubs. Very unreasonable.

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

easyeason3 · 23-05-2011 11:07PM

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 · 23-05-2011 11:11PM

Bottled water

amandaf675 · 23-05-2011 11:11PM

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 · 23-05-2011 11:16PM

I like the batter more then the content

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 23-05-2011 11:17PM

Bottles of coke,price of coke in pub.

Yitzhak Rabin · 23-05-2011 11:20PM

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

racso1975 · 23-05-2011 11:21PM

Price of a pint of water with a dash of cordial

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 23-05-2011 11:22PM

Razor blades.....again.

LighterGuy · 23-05-2011 11:22PM

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 · 23-05-2011 11:23PM

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 · 23-05-2011 11:25PM

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 · 23-05-2011 11:25PM

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 · 23-05-2011 11:25PM

Petrol.

7sr2z3fely84g5 · 23-05-2011 11:26PM

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

Biggins · 23-05-2011 11:26PM

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@ · 23-05-2011 11:27PM

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:

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

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