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How I love being ripped off in post Celtic Tiger Ireland

  • 30-12-2012 04:25PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 557 ✭✭✭


    I was down at my local (old man style) pub a few nights prior to Christmas meeting with a Uni friend I had not seen in a while. I had to be up early the next day so I ordered a Carlsberg shandy. I imagine this is less than half a pint of actual lager topped up by the cheapest TK white lemonade.

    This would be one of the cheapest drinks the pub could possible serve that is not a pint of water. They charged me nearly 5 euros. How can this be justified? We hear how the pub trade has suffered in this recession, yet still indulging in shameless rip offery? Also, when we have national awareness of our drink culture, it should not be that I am more out of pocket for "rethinking my drinking" than someone who orders a "proper" beer.

    Should get drunk in future I guess.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 454 ✭✭Israel_Dagg


    Take it to the rip off Ireland forum :P ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,650 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    It used to be 15p for a packet of Mega Meanies

    It's now 89c!

    Unreal!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    Cocktails are always expensive.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    The 5 euro price was probably to discourage your type from darkening their door again.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭Froyo


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    It used to be 15p for a packet of Mega Meanies

    It's now 89c!

    Unreal!

    Don't get me started on chickatees!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Culleeo


    Waestrel wrote: »
    I imagine this is less than half a pint of actual lager topped up by the cheapest TK white lemonade.

    I imagine they used a bottle of 7up which costs in the region of €2.50 and then charged you for the half pint on top.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I've never heard of anywhere charging less for shandy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Culleeo wrote: »

    I imagine they used a bottle of 7up which costs in the region of €2.50 and then charged you for the half pint on top.

    This is generally how shandies are done unless the pub has a soda gun thingy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 268 ✭✭Culleeo


    This is generally how shandies are done unless the pub has a soda gun thingy.

    I know that, I should have put :rolleyes: at the end of my post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭oodles19


    Been working in pubs 20 years, shandies are always the same price as a pint


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Sheesh, 10p bags are about €2 now. :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Only Brits go to Uni

    You met your college friend


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    This is generally how shandies are done unless the pub has a soda gun thingy.

    Not necessarily. Lots of pubs have those digital touch screen tills these days and would have a button for ale shandy, lager shandy etc. The same for brandy & port or other commonly mixed drinks, so you are not paying for two seperate drink prices in one glass.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    You get what you pay for.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,677 ✭✭✭staker


    Must have included a free hand-shandy at the hatch OP?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,408 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    It used to be 15p for a packet of Mega Meanies

    It's now 89c!

    Unreal!

    This is the type of thing that should get the nation out on the streets protesting.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Thread disappoints. You got ripped off by 5 euro. Actually, you were charged 5 euro so at most you were ripped off by about 2 euro. Worthy of a new thread? No. Go get a twitter account.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    Waestrel wrote: »
    They charged me nearly 5 euros. How can this be justified? We hear how the pub trade has suffered in this recession, yet still indulging in shameless rip offery?


    What did the manager/owner of the establishment say when you posed this question to him/her?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    €5.45 in my local :mad:. They upped all drinks a couple of weeks before the budget and again after (Including Tea/Coffee)
    They get away with it, because everyone lets them away with it. Anyone that would have, gave up doing anything about it years ago.

    Hope someone starts "Warehouse" parties, and BYOBooze.. Better Craic/music and hopefully people. Small entrance fee to cover any costs.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Tish!!!

    I remember the days when you could buy a bag of Tayto for 5p.
    (Seriously)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    longshanks wrote: »
    Not necessarily. Lots of pubs have those digital touch screen tills these days and would have a button for ale shandy, lager shandy etc. The same for brandy & port or other commonly mixed drinks, so you are not paying for two seperate drink prices in one glass.

    Digital touch pad keeps track of what stock you have sold, which it then translates to how much money should be in the till. If the till is down at the end of the shift, the staff pay the difference.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    I'm presuming you drank what you'd paid for and left OP??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    orestes wrote: »
    If the till is down at the end of the shift, the staff pay the difference.

    Illegal

    Oh managers will try that one but they can be told where to go


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,650 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    orestes wrote: »
    Digital touch pad keeps track of what stock you have sold, which it then translates to how much money should be in the till. If the till is down at the end of the shift, the staff pay the difference.

    And does the manager then sell them magic beans?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Illegal

    Oh managers will try that one but they can be told where to go
    MrStuffins wrote: »
    And does the manager then sell them magic beans?

    Maybe not here but tis standard practice in a lot of bars in Belgium and Holland anyway. You don't pay up, there's the door.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,650 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    orestes wrote: »
    Maybe not here but tis standard practice in a lot of bars in Belgium and Holland anyway. You don't pay up, there's the door.

    I don't think the OP was in Holland or Belgium at the time.............


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    I drink the odd shandy in the summer or when driving. Sometimes while driving in the summer. Anyway, the way every pub Ive been in do it is to half fill a pint glass with cheapo TK red lemonade and then top it up with ale. End result is same price as a normal pint. It's just one of the many ways in which consumers are ripped off. Ho hum.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    I don't think the OP was in Holland or Belgium at the time.............

    Ok. OP is giving out about being charged full price for a pint of shandy. I pointed out that stock in bars is very closely monitored and sold/missing stock has to be accounted for in terms of cash taken in. Therefore, if half a pint of beer is missing and a bottle of 7-up is missing, the money for them should be in the till. If the bar-staff didn't take the money for them, they would be held accountable for the missing stock/money.

    I foolishly extended this point by adding a pointless throw-away comment about having to pay for the stock, which was apparently wrong, but which has been used to overlook the part of my post that was pointing out why the OP was charged for a pint. I'm sorry. Better now? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    orestes wrote: »
    Maybe not here but tis standard practice in a lot of bars in Belgium and Holland anyway. You don't pay up, there's the door.
    Pretty sure it's illegal there too. Employment laws tend to be standard across Europe these days.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    You were charged ghay tax


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