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X Factor affecting restaurant trade

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  • #92
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Ally Dick wrote: »
    I was in my favourite local restaurant the other night, and the manager told me that his takings are down 30% since the return of the X Factor. I can't believe it. Are that many people watching that rubbish ? God help us all

    Its the same every year, and gets worse towards the finals.
    rarnes1 wrote: »
    The manager is full of ****

    Actually in this regard he's not.


  • #93
    chucken1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    What will restaurants blame in January-February??

    Theres always a lull at certain times of the year.

    And the lulls happened before the xfactor was invented.


  • #94
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    chucken1 wrote: »
    What will restaurants blame in January-February??

    The snow of course .


  • #95
    Voodoomelon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,653 ✭✭✭Voodoomelon


    This thread is absolutely true. Sundays die a death in bar/restaurant I do a few nights in, a regular middle-class spot. Definitely a noticeable decline in customers coming out last year, no doubt it will be the same this year.


  • #96
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    chucken1 wrote: »
    What will restaurants blame in January-February??

    Theres always a lull at certain times of the year.

    And the lulls happened before the xfactor was invented.

    Customers speak!.. And they tell you why they're late leaving home, or why they weren't out last week.

    I've never worked in a restaurant but I've worked as a taxi driver and in bar's/club's and know from experience that customers stay at home later during the X-Factor and venture out late, or not at all.

    On eviction nights off licence sales do a roaring trade too, as do the likes of Chinese take aways etc.


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  • #97
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,915 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    I mean, if I was with a girl whose interests included Xposé and X-factor and stuff like that, there would be no point in being with her, because there'd be nothing to talk about.

    What if she was a doctor / journalist / whateveryourhavingyourself by day but still enjoyed a bit of Xfactor, or are all xfactor fans braindead?

    In one breath you're saying its just a TV show but then your saying that watching it is a defining point of someones character!

    I dont enjoy it but I can definitely see the appeal, it has the whole rags to riches appeal, normal people coming from nowhere and becoming famous for 15 minutes. Sure its hammed up and exaggerated and hyped but what show isnt? Its entertainment and I dont buy into the whole thing that xfactors success is heralding the fall of civilisation, if you believe that you're buying into it as much as the most die hard of fans!


  • #98
    mossyc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭mossyc123


    fedor.2. wrote: »
    I couldn't care less about the show, its the snobby attitudes that annoy me. To question someones intelligence because they may watch and enjoy it is ridiculous

    Absolutely.

    Some of the nicest and smartest women I know watch it regularely.

    However, I think its important that people realise it's closer to a scripted soap opera rather then a reality show.

    "Winning" the X-Factor cannot and should not be compared to any significant Artistic or Sporting achievement.

    I don't think it's really that snobby to :rolleyes: when you read/hear someone getting emotionally involved with something that is a highly manufactured and controlled TV show masquerading as Art.


  • #99
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I wont go out on a Saturday night without watching the X-Factor live shows. The bar/restaurant trade have to find something superior to x-factor, La Liga or Serie A if they want my Saturday and Sunday custom.


  • #100
    mossyc123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭mossyc123


    ColHol wrote: »
    What if she was a doctor / journalist /

    When did Journalist get up there with Doctor as an example of intelligence and career achievement?! :confused:


  • #101
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    mossyc123 wrote: »
    I don't think it's really that snobby to :rolleyes: when you read/hear someone getting emotionally involved with something that is a highly manufactured and controlled TV show masquerading as Art.

    I honestly don't think the makers of the X Factor are trying to masquerade the show as art!

    It's a light entertainment show, no more than that.


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  • #102
    LighterGuy
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    Laurel Sharp Stinger wrote: »
    Customers speak!.. And they tell you why they're late leaving home, or why they weren't out last week.

    I've never worked in a restaurant but I've worked as a taxi driver and in bar's/club's and know from experience that customers stay at home later during the X-Factor and venture out late, or not at all.

    On eviction nights off licence sales do a roaring trade too, as do the likes of Chinese take aways etc.

    I reckon takeaways would do more business when highly watched shows such as x-factor are shown. Stay in, get a take away, watch the show.

    But as for my take on the owners comment? I still call BS on it. You have to take alot of things with a pinch of salt. We are still in recession. Talk of a "double-dip" too. People are not going out as much. More people will stop aswell. So in reality his business might of been declining the last 6 months or so. Easier to sput ****e and say "its cause of the x-factor tho!"


  • #103
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    I would say that the downturn and people watching the pennys has as much to do with restaurant trade being affected then anything else and I prefer the late night tv viewing on saturday night than any early prime time tv programmes and have being as such for many years now ,so no change from me there .


  • #104
    G_R
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 5,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭G_R


    I work in a cinema, and our Target Attendance drops by about 400 on Saturday nights during the X Factor. It nearly halves on the night of the final. I'd well believe it affects other businesses aswell.


  • #105
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Grand_Rajnah wrote: »
    I work in a cinema, and our Target Attendance drops by about 400 on Saturday nights during the X Factor. It nearly halves on the night of the final. I'd well believe it affects other businesses aswell.

    You'd think pubs or other places would show the x-factor on saturday nights :pac: .. Tell you, if i owned or ran a pub I'd be advertising "watch the x-factor final on saturday, here in the XXX pub" - even put a drinks promotion on or something. Try to rope people in.


  • #106
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    Grand_Rajnah wrote: »
    I work in a cinema, and our Target Attendance drops by about 400 on Saturday nights during the X Factor. It nearly halves on the night of the final. I'd well believe it affects other businesses aswell.

    You'd think pubs or other places would show the x-factor on saturday nights :pac: .. Tell you, if i owned or ran a pub I'd be advertising "watch the x-factor final on saturday, here in the XXX pub" - even put a drinks promotion on or something. Try to rope people in.

    Get the x-factor sheep to send me on the numbers for the takeaways if that happens because it's hard enough to escape from it as it is without it being on in the bars as well!


  • #107
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Get the x-factor sheep to send me on the numbers for the takeaways if that happens because it's hard enough to escape from it as it is without it being on in the bars as well!

    :pac:
    Well I dont watch the show. Never have. Dont think I ever will. But in a business aspect. I would be trying to take advantage of it if I could.


  • #108
    whatcartoget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭whatcartoget


    Just eat.ie reported a rise in sales during the x factor last year. Takeaways are very popular when the x-factor/strictly come dancing are on. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+X+FATTER%3B+Takeaway+orders+soar+during+show+says+website.-a0260462605
    In my local town a Chinese takeaway can take between 30-45 minutes during the peak on these shows and we have 4 Chinese's.


  • #109
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Get the x-factor sheep to send me on the numbers for the takeaways if that happens because it's hard enough to escape from it as it is without it being on in the bars as well!

    Yeah, and while he's at it, maybe get the football sheep to send me on some takeaway numbers so I don't have to watch football in the bars all weekend, 'cos it's damn near impossible to escape that either!

    Oh wait... the bars are already full of people watching football on their screens. Scratch that idea :(


  • #110
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    This all reminds me when Dallas was on tv at 9.30 on a saturday night, people used to stay in to watch it and then go out.


  • #111
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    S'fuuny, I thought that Come Dine With Me would pose much more of a threat to the restaurant trade...I can't decide which of these shows I hate more or which is the more pointless.


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  • #112
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    I work Saturday evenings (in a usually busy shop) and where I am is noticeably quieter when the Xfactor is on.

    Haven't noticed it too much yet this year but in a couple of weeks we'll be totally dead for a few hours every Saturday.


  • #113
    whatcartoget
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 92 ✭✭whatcartoget


    ITV can often get between 12-16 million views of the x factor and tv3 can often nearly reach 1 million especially if there are Irish people in it and two Irish girls have reached the judges houses stage this year so if they go threw to the live finals. X-factor will be big here this year again!


  • #114
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Out of curiousity, to the people who work on saturdays and notice a change. How big of a change are we talking here?

    - Not as bad. its not like its a ghost town?
    - Its pretty much as ghost town?


  • #115
    AgileMyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,746 ✭✭✭AgileMyth


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    Out of curiousity, to the people who work on saturdays and notice a change. How big of a change are we talking here?

    - Not as bad. its not like its a ghost town?
    - Its pretty much as ghost town?
    Two posts up ^there^ buddy ;)

    Once it gets to the live bit it'll be ghost town.


  • #116
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Latchy wrote: »
    That pretty much sums up X-Factor for me and I'm sure many others ,you don't have to have much talent or be able to sing ( they don't have either ) but they had the clown appeal and got through on a hairstring , which then opens the flodgates for them to appear on another 25 crappy shows .

    Then for same reasons RTE expolits them to appear on the Eurovision which sunk that event ( and RTE) even lower than Dustin the Turkeys appearence .Thing is these boys are on a roll but fcuk knows what their appeal is but they quite rightly are going to milk it ( whatever it is they do ) for all it's worth .

    While not being a Jedward fan and conceding that they are immensely irritating you can't really hold the Eurovision thing against them considering they gave Ireland it's best finish in about ten years. It was a pretty good idea sending them since they evidently do have a great (albeit inexplicable) appeal. And the song itself wasn't half bad in an annoyingly catchy way.

    As for X-Factor, I always try to avoid it but every year I end up watching it out of curiosity and then being sucked into it. :o Last year I only watched it for Wagner though. :D

    I don't think it reflects badly on someone who watches it so long as their lives aren't consumed by it. Nothing wrong with someone who watches X-Factor and discusses it at the water cooler Monday morning before forgetting about it until the following Saturday. I'd only start to look down on people for watching it if they harped on about it all the time and became obsessed with it.


  • #117
    chucken1
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    This all reminds me when Dallas was on tv at 9.30 on a saturday night, people used to stay in to watch it and then go out.

    Ah Jonjo..those were the days :( And do you remember when people went out,the last fcekin thing they were taliking about was tv?


  • #118
    chucken1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    whatcartoget wrote: »
    ITV can often get between 12-16 million views of the x factor and tv3 can often nearly reach 1 million especially if there are Irish people in it and two Irish girls have reached the judges houses stage this year so if they go threw to the live finals. X-factor will be big here this year again!

    Well thanks for RUINING it :mad:


  • #119
    chucken1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭chucken1


    Liam Byrne wrote: »
    Get the x-factor sheep to send me on the numbers for the takeaways if that happens because it's hard enough to escape from it as it is without it being on in the bars as well!


    Here you go Liam :)


    http://www.just-eat.ie/area/limerick-citycentre


  • #120
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,152 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    whatcartoget wrote: »
    ITV can often get between 12-16 million views of the x factor and tv3 can often nearly reach 1 million especially if there are Irish people in it and two Irish girls have reached the judges houses stage this year so if they go threw to the live finals. X-factor will be big here this year again!

    Probably explains why they leave an Irish person in until near the end. As I said though, the most annoying part is that Irish people - at least their Facebook page personas - didn't want the twits to keep getting through last year and swore they wouldn't watch it.

    That said, otherwise sane people are asking about Channel 5 so I presume they are watching Big Bother.

    But 1 million? Sheesh! That's more than I'd have thought - a quarter of the population ?

    As for comparisons to football, hurling and soccer - I know they're annoying for people who don't like them, but at least they're real!


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  • #121
    lastlaugh
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    KnifeWRENCH wrote: »
    As for X-Factor, I always try to avoid it but every year I end up watching it out of curiosity and then being sucked into it. :o Last year I only watched it for Wagner though. :D

    It was class the way he was kept in despite being so dreadful!


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