X Factor affecting restaurant trade

LightningBolt · 29-08-2011 11:17PM

The manager is talking nonsense to be honest. What time of year is it? Back to school time. When I worked in a restaurant throughout college you were guaranteed that every August/September families and couple in their 30/40s coming would seriously drop off.

X Factor made no difference to sales for the night throughout October/November either.

Alessandra · 29-08-2011 11:18PM

Who has money for restaurants these days? Xfactor, dinner on your lap n drinks before out. Cheap and cheerful!

Ally Dick · 29-08-2011 11:20PM

LightningBolt wrote: »

The manager is talking nonsense to be honest. What time of year is it? Back to school time. When I worked in a restaurant throughout college you were guaranteed that every August/September families and couple in their 30/40s coming would seriously drop off.

X Factor made no difference to sales for the night throughout October/November either.

Personally I think it's early bird myself. Restaurants are deserted after the early bird stops from what I have seen. It's not that they are necessary rushing home to watch the Sh!te Factor....but many of them could be, knowing how moronic some people are....

Jess16 · 29-08-2011 11:20PM

Latchy wrote: »

we all know it's hype... hype ...hyped to fcuking death

I always find it kinda funny to hear it called reality tv when the whole thing is faker than Michael Jackson's nose (:

Alessandra wrote: »

Who has money for restaurants these days?

People who aren't puking it up outside pubs!

Sky King · 29-08-2011 11:22PM

I feel sorry for the restauranteurs in this situation.

They should reduce the VAT rate on Saturday nights to compensate them for the X factor.

Ally Dick · 29-08-2011 11:23PM

kowloon wrote: »

Fancy a nice Indian now

Frieda Pinto would be my choice

Latchy · 29-08-2011 11:24PM

Geese_Howard its very profitable for such a really rubbish show,i think the whole thing is a farce if it was up to the public to pick and choose from the start there would probably be more awful singers going forward.

There is massive of money to be made from advertising/phone vote in/and adverts every couple of minutes.

The irony of it all the "winners" are never heard from again

Exactly my point ,like if they were really looking for talent you would only have to pop down to the local pub venue to find it and ,we all know somebody who's talented as a singer or performer but the whole purpose of the programme is the massive money for ITV and winners in the final are secondry. It's ok to view for the laugh factor ( even humilation , some dont mind or cant tell when they are going to be exploited ) but the whole shallowness of the programme is what people used to say and still say about American tv in the 70 and 80s .

Miss Olenska · 29-08-2011 11:34PM

Rawhead wrote: »

By restaurant you must mean chipper. I doubt that anyone who has the money or brains to go for a meal on a Saturday night would be swayed by that visual syphilis.

It would be nice to believe that, but sadly what the OP says is likely true. It's utterly depressing how many X-Factor related status updates appear in my FB news feed on Saturday nights from people I consider intelligent.

Alessandra · 29-08-2011 11:40PM

Are you trying to say people with intelligence wouldn't watch Xfactor?

Liam Byrne · 29-08-2011 11:40PM

Alessandra wrote: »

Xfactor, dinner on your lap n drinks before out. Cheap and cheerful!

Absolutely the opposite!

That show is unmitigated ****e, and if it were the only thing on TV it would make me go out to avoid it.

fedor.2. · 29-08-2011 11:42PM

Isn't it amazing how different people like different things

Local-womanizer · 29-08-2011 11:43PM

Where I work its not as busy when Xfactor is on. Less women in drinking.

A Italian restaurant here done X-factor nights last year, a load of women drinking wine and eating food while watching that sh1te, he made a fortune.

The husbands loved it too, peace and quiet at the house for them.

Hiace. · 29-08-2011 11:44PM

Women luv x factor, and it keeps them quiet, so men get to save on taking them out.

fedor.2. · 29-08-2011 11:48PM

Hiace. wrote: »

Women luv x factor, and it keeps them quiet, so men get to save on taking them out.

Get back to the motors forum, dont like your sort around here

Latchy · 29-08-2011 11:52PM

Jess16 wrote: »

I always find it kinda funny to hear it called reality tv when the whole thing is faker than Michael Jackson's nose (:

As long as we can tell the difference but some people are addicted to fake ...for all the wrong reasons ie, they believe or want to believe it's all real .

Liam Byrne · 29-08-2011 11:53PM

fedor.2. wrote: »

Isn't it amazing how different people like different things

Liking it is their own choice (although it does, IMHO, reflect badly on them)

Having a single TV show infect other radio shows and news bulletins and Facebook, etc, as if it were something relevant is the major issue that I'd have with it.

I mean, Fair City is ****e too, but you don't have to switch off the radio or TV or Facebook numerous times a week in order to avoid that!

saywhatyousee · 29-08-2011 11:55PM

Alessandra wrote: »

Are you trying to say people with intelligence wouldn't watch Xfactor?

Yes!

galwayrush · 29-08-2011 11:56PM

The kids put it on here one evening, and our cat tried to jump through a closed window to escape.

lastlaugh · 29-08-2011 11:57PM

Funny to see how people so staunchly profess their abhorrence for X-Factor.
Is it really THAT bad?

fedor.2. · 29-08-2011 11:59PM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Liking it is their own choice (although it does, IMHO, reflect badly on them)

Having a single TV show infect other radio shows and news bulletins and Facebook, etc, as if it were something relevant is the major issue that I'd have with it.

I mean, Fair City is ****e too, but you don't have to switch off the radio or TV or Facebook numerous times a week in order to avoid that!

Why do you think it gets so much coverage? people are obviously interested in and enjoy it, you're in the minority, so you should just put up with it and relax, you're thinking to much about it, its just a TV show.

Latchy · 29-08-2011 11:59PM

Lots of people in Ireland cant view C5 in order to watch Big Brother but you can be sure just as many miss it ,especially with Paddy the traveller and the Jedwards in there so it has the laughter value appeal for many as much as anything else .

fedor.2. · 29-08-2011 11:59PM

galwayrush wrote: »

The kids put it on here one evening, and our cat tried to jump through a closed window to escape.

No it didnt

Floodric · 30-08-2011 12:02AM

It's true. I work in the bar of a busy restaurant in Dublin and it really is true. Last two weeks it really is noticable.

oppenheimer1 · 30-08-2011 12:03AM

Correlation does not imply causation.

fedor.2. · 30-08-2011 12:05AM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Correlation does not imply causation.

correlation proves causation

Liam Byrne · 30-08-2011 12:05AM

fedor.2. wrote: »

Why do you think it gets so much coverage? people are obviously interested in and enjoy it, you're in the minority, so you should just put up with it and relax, you're thinking to much about it, its just a TV show.

My point precisely.

I don't have to "put up with it" or "relax", BTW, and there's no need to be so patronising or dismissive; as I've said, I just switch it off and delete all posts related to it from Facebook.

The mistake that the stations make is falling for the pretence that it's worthy of coverage, but if they repeat that mistake often enough they lose listeners - their loss.

The very fact that you say "people" are interested in it, rather than the truthful "some people" are interested in it just shows that you are biased.

It's a PR stunt to make a Christmas Number one and associated profits from the MULTIPLE texts and votes (an actual vote-in competition would allow a single vote from a particular number) and if you want to fall for it, that's your call - no skin off my nose.

But any station that elevates it to the status of something worthwhile will get switched off and I'll go find something that doesn't follow the PR hype and sheep and actually plays music from some actual talent.

lastlaugh · 30-08-2011 12:06AM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Liking it is their own choice (although it does, IMHO, reflect badly on them)

Having a single TV show infect other radio shows and news bulletins and Facebook, etc, as if it were something relevant is the major issue that I'd have with it.

I mean, Fair City is ****e too, but you don't have to switch off the radio or TV or Facebook numerous times a week in order to avoid that!

You mean you would judge someone for watching some light entertainment on a Saturday night?!

dark crystal · 30-08-2011 12:07AM

Every year, when the X Factor comes on, you see threads like these with people all guns blazing, spouting off about how terrible the show is and how brainless the viewers are for watching it.

Odds on, the same people aren't spending their time watching intellectually stimulating documentaries or the Arts channel, they're watching internet porn, Top Gear, Family Guy or 22 overpaid men chasing a ball round a pitch for an hour and a half.

It's only a light entertainment show, people. No one's claiming you have to be Einstein to watch it, but neither does it make you a brainless idiot.

Different strokes for different folks and all that....

Liam Byrne · 30-08-2011 12:07AM

lastlaugh wrote: »

You mean you would judge someone for watching some light entertainment on a Saturday night?!

Obviously not solely on that, but partially, yes; people's tastes reflect their personalities/interests/values, no ?

Would you not factor someone's liking of Daniel O'Donnell or Crystal Swing or whatever into your opinion of them ?

fedor.2. · 30-08-2011 12:07AM

Liam Byrne wrote: »

My point precisely.

I don't have to "put up with it" or "relax", BTW, and there's no need to be so patronising or dismissive; as I've said, I just switch it off and delete all posts related to it from Facebook.

The mistake that the stations make is falling for the pretence that it's worthy of coverage, but if they repeat that mistake often enough they lose listeners - their loss.

The very fact that you say "people" are interested in it, rather than the truthful "some people" are interested in it just shows that you are biased.

It's a PR stunt to make a Christmas Number one and associated profits from the MULTIPLE texts and votes (an actual vote-in competition would allow a single vote from a particular number) and if you want to fall for it, that's your call - no skin off my nose.

But any station that elevates it to the status of something worthwhile will get switched off and I'll go find something that doesn't follow the PR hype and sheep and actually plays music from some actual talent.

So what are you saying exactly?

X Factor affecting restaurant trade

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