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

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  • #62
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    dammitjanet wrote: »
    Very sensible logic there- I only go to chippers when I'm hammered. However on more than one occasion when I've gotten drunk I've gone into shops, bought bread and jam and started giving out sandwhiches to strangers on grafton street...

    Sensible logic indeed.
    All logic goes out the window when ou're drunk though, and that's how they make most of their money.

    Yes, I'm drunk and waiting on a delivery, even though I have ham and cheese in the fridge. :)


  • #63
    ozmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭ozmo


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    ...another girl were bored one day and calculated it out. Cineams make about 600% profit for every bag of popcorn.

    Yes. 600%.

    you might want recalc that - selling for 600% is just about 6 times the cost.

    more like selling for 60 to 100 times the cost of producing it (6,000% profit?)...

    but I have no problem with that....makes tickets cheaper.... plus spar is just outside...
    mmmmm cheezy popcorn:pac:....

    “Roll it back”



  • #64
    citizen_p
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,494 ✭✭✭citizen_p


    anything in centra


  • #65
    carefulnow100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭carefulnow100


    Local chippy has gorgeous onion rings!
    €2 for 6 of the monsters well worth it!

    Tea is the worst for day to day mark ups.
    Cinema is twice a month or so, so I dont mind paying a little extra! but I never, ever buy popcorn. Id prefere to spend €5 on a bag a sweets than €4 on popcorn just cause i know how much of a mark up is on the popcorn.
    Thats not saying I ever buy the said sweets btw! deep pockets filled with cheaper bags of the same sweets from the likes of tesco+ student ticket!
    Im a cinema's worst nightmare I suppose!


  • #66
    Martyn1989
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Martyn1989


    vicwatson wrote: »
    5.50 in Eddie Rockets for Onion Rings :eek::eek:

    Yeh aswell as the drinks and burgers gettin smaller they can go fcuk themselves


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  • #67
    ozmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭ozmo


    Biggest markup - post and packaging -especially Ebay.

    Especially anoying when something that was free postage within UK cost me 5 euros postage to Ireland when its still a 50p stamp and same envelope.

    “Roll it back”



  • #68
    Martyn1989
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,561 ✭✭✭Martyn1989


    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.

    I believe jewellers make somewhere in that region on their stock!


  • #69
    Shifty11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭Shifty11


    I work in a hotel in Dublin. We charge €4.75 for toast in bar area during the dar. A pan of bread cost €1.50. We give them 2 slices cut it half, 3 if they're lucky.
    BOOM


  • #70
    delito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭delito


    1 Sausage 1.50
    1 Battered sausage 2.50

    Pack of 6 jumbo sausages...2.50 ???


  • #71
    DWCommuter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,032 ✭✭✭DWCommuter


    Terry wrote: »
    Sensible logic indeed.
    All logic goes out the window when ou're drunk though, and that's how they make most of their money.

    Yes, I'm drunk and waiting on a delivery, even though I have ham and cheese in the fridge. :)

    Watcha order?


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  • #72
    DWCommuter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,032 ✭✭✭DWCommuter


    TheUsual wrote: »
    This is my problem with Bagel sangwiches.
    Big dirty hole in the middle, and you pay more money for less food.

    And Bagels are nearly as fattening as Onion Rings.


  • #73
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Good to see how many people just dont have a clue how business work.

    You make money on cheap things, tea, onion rings, popcorn etc. You actually lose money on the dearer things you sell, as in, if you only sold that dear product its margin wouldn't cover the cost of running the business, i.e. a cinema wouldn't survive on ticket sales and a restaurant wouldn't survive if it only sold steak.

    You can make the choice of buying it or not.


  • #74
    Mimikyu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,050 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


    This post has been deleted.


  • #75
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Captain Morgan wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    I can see a flaw in your plan:D


  • #76
    delito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭delito


    Senna wrote: »
    Good to see how many people just dont have a clue how business work.

    I'm pretty sure most understand basic maths, they just don't like it and aren't accepting it anymore. Im paying for food, I don't really give a **** about their take home or overheads.


  • #77
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    delito wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure most understand basic maths, they just don't like it and aren't accepting it anymore. Im paying for food, I don't really give a **** about their take home or overheads.

    Why are you paying for it if you think its too expensive?? If its too much, dont pay for it, pretty simple really.


  • #78
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,310 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Terry wrote: »
    Yes, I'm drunk and waiting on a delivery, even though I have ham and cheese in the fridge. :)
    Cheese on top of the chips...
    ozmo wrote: »
    you might want recalc that - selling for 600% is just about 6 times the cost.

    more like selling for 60 to 100 times the cost of producing it (6,000% profit?)...
    You get either a 10/15KG bag of popcorn seed, and you use roughly somewhere between 1 and 5 kg of seed to make maybe 10 or 12 buckets of large popcorn...
    Senna wrote: »
    Good to see how many people just dont have a clue how business work.
    Now now, don't get in the way of a good rant... :P
    Captain Morgan wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    What the movie company gets works out as a percentage, but I'd say it is a set price to ensure that the movie company makes good money.


  • #79
    delito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭delito


    Senna wrote: »
    Why are you paying for it if you think its too expensive?? If its too much, dont pay for it, pretty simple really.

    If I didn't pay for food Id have a small case of death, besides I never said where I do pay for it. ;)


  • #80
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    the_syco wrote: »
    Cheese on top of the chips...


    :eek::eek::eek::eek:


  • #81
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    where do i go from here wrote: »
    Milk

    Filthy rich farmers:D

    yep they're rolling in, what... that 20c a litre they're getting!!


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  • #82
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Cheese is the most expensive item in a chipper. Most have 2 quarter pounders, one with cheese and one without. Price difference is close to a euro. No extra cooking cost or labour.


  • #83
    johngalway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,271 ✭✭✭✭johngalway


    I could care less about the hate/hate relationship between cinemas and movie companies. Paying cinema prices for popcorn is just plain stupid. Also the fact that it's always over salted, and always on the stale side, and worse, always crushed into little bits by the person filling the bag/container.

    No thanks, I'll smuggle mine in :D


  • #84
    Blitzkrieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,676 ✭✭✭Blitzkrieger


    Ghandee wrote: »
    My local chipper does great onion rings, but at nearly €3 for three rings,

    As someone mentioned already, the cost of the ingredients is only part of the cost to the business. Without going into overheads, fresh onion rings are labour intensive. It's the time it takes to prepare them you're paying for as much as anything else.

    That said €3 for three rings is ****ing robbery. They must be relying on most of their customers being drunk and not realising how much they're paying.

    amandaf675 wrote: »
    a 25 kg bad that costs bout 6euro per bag bulk price..
    i work in a chipper..

    You work in a **** chipper. :D €6 will not get you a 25kg bag of mediocre quality potatoes in the current market.

    Shifty11 wrote: »
    A pan of bread cost €1.50

    €1.50? Rip off! €.50 in the cash and carry....




    Some times I know I'm being ripped off but pay the money anyway. I go to the cinema about once a month. Between the ticket, coke and popcorn it costs me a little under €15. Sure I could download the film and watch it at home cheaper, but it's not the same experience. Considering I frequently go during the day and often am the only person in the cinema, I think €15 is a good price for a private screening.


  • #85
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Can of Beer

    5c for the Can

    10c for the Beer


  • #86
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Can of Beer

    5c for the Can

    10c for the Beer

    So fifteen cents for a can of beer? Where? What kind of beer? :confused:


  • #87
    macman2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭macman2010


    bc dub wrote: »
    I like the batter more then the content

    Flower+water+heat= batter


  • #88
    yupyup7up
    Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭yupyup7up


    anti virus software. can be bought in for 10 bucks(probably costs a few cents to make!) and sold for 60


  • #89
    Sean Quagmire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭Sean Quagmire


    yupyup7up wrote: »
    anti virus software. can be bought in for 10 bucks(probably costs a few cents to make!) and sold for 60

    anyone who pays for anti virus software deserves to ripped off


  • #90
    yupyup7up
    Closed Accounts Posts: 845 ✭✭✭yupyup7up


    Sean Quagmire wrote: »
    anyone who pays for anti virus software deserves to ripped off

    well this was about 4 years ago now. but in fairness not everyone knows not to buy it and get paranoid over viruses


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  • #91
    louise5754
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 63 ✭✭louise5754


    Boxes of Miller & Budweiser you can get in the supermarkket for a €1 a bottle then are charged €5 in a pub. Yes I know there are other factors to consider wages,light,heat etc just throwing my two cents in :D


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