joeguevara wrote: » We do have that in Ireland, however, I am nearly sure that its pepsi products rather than Coke. I tried to get the gun from coke when I had the bar but they refused to give it to me (this was in 2003-3004.) They stated that it was not a service that they offer to pubs. I asked about putting in a machine like they have in takeways but they refused to even consider it. They make too much selling bottles. They could not see the irony that the same company offered the same service in the UK.
meemeemee wrote: » In a London branch of Wetherspoons, this summer I paid something like £5.80 for a bottle of wine which is 750 ML. Addmittedly it was the house wine, but in other London pubs you could pay easily pay £5 for one glass. I noticed that they served Champagne by the bottle, and to be honest, there was no apparent mark up on it. It was the same price as in a corner shop, maybe £25 to £30.
mariaalice wrote: » I think its is in the area of wine and soft drinks and getting around the strangle hold some of the distributes have here that will have most effect.
Charlie Rock wrote: » At last. An invasion from England that we can all drink to.
joeguevara wrote: » You can do what you want. Customers wouldn't stand for coke out of a bottle. Saying that some use the white lemonade. Yes a lot of mark up on bottles, but would have been a similar mark up if we had the dispensing machine. If I was still in it, I would have just stated I was a chipper, got the dispensing machine and served the dashes that way. Customers sometimes are cnuts demanding that bottled coke is better but then giving out about the cost. To me gun coke and bottled coke taste exactly the same. Each to their own, and until somebody does something about it, it will stay exactly the same. Viva la revolucion.
mariaalice wrote: » In the UK pubs often have soft drink that come form a keg and are very cheap even in London, I never understood why we don't have it here also you can get wine very cheap in the UK, in a trendy bar in Manchester I have got a bottle of wine for 9 pounds.
Kettleson wrote: » Thanks for that. When I came back to Ireland in 97, a good few pubs around Sligo had the old bottle of Red and White lemonade to help yourself to a dash. And my local let you take dashes from a plastic coke bottle....and there were a good few bottles used up on any night. You couldn't get into the pub from 4pm on a Friday until opening time Monday afternoon, it was wedged. A well run, decent pub too, and customers were not yet Tiger flush. Win-Win... The Tiger put an end to that, folk had the beans to buy the bottle and some too embarrassed not to. The bottle of Red Lemonade will be back I'm sure.
joeguevara wrote: » They could not see the irony that the same company offered the same service in the UK.
MYOB wrote: » Its not the same company though. Coke is a franchise - not particularly well known that it is. Each territory has a franchiser who buys the goop off the parent firm. Coke in Ireland is "made" (dilulted from goop) and sold by a company called Hellenic. Coke in the UK is sold by a company called Coca Cola Enterprises. Two completely different firms. This lead to the oddity of Hellenic closing its factory in the south about the same time the parent company was opening its goop factory in Drogheda. And now back to the booze talk...
The_Gatsby wrote: » Forgive me if I'm wrong but I though the reason that our drink was so expensive was because of minimum prices imposed by the government?
Madam wrote: » Ok I may have gone over the top with the word excellent but I still say the food is fine and great for a long night out when you need your carbs to keep you on an even keel. You say you ate in Wetherspoons as a student - you do know they've moved on since those days and most(not all I'll admit)have come along way in the last few years. All in all you get what you pay for, if you want gastro food go to a so called up market gastro pub but if you just want something with a nice drink(half the price of other places), I can't see why you wouldn't be delighted with what you get at Wetherspoons. Now if you want a complete down market pub with crap food in the UK - go to a John Barras bar(they seem to be taking over the good pubs in the suburbs at the moment)!
awec wrote: » Yes, it's decent. If you are out for a night on the piss and you are looking something cheap and cheerful then it'll fill a hole. It's not the sort of place where you'd plan to go for a pub grub meal out.
joeguevara wrote: » If I can put concentrate coke in a dispenser in a chipper I should be able to do the same in a pub. Doesn't matter who owns the company. I still make mark up from the splash and customer is happy they don't have to pay €2.70 for a coke to go into their vodka.
Mr Simpson wrote: » Not really, Hellenic choose who they distribute to in ROI, apparently they wont sell post mix to the on trade. The one pub I know who sells Splash Coke (Gibneys Malahide) buy there product from NI
joeguevara wrote: » I think you misunderstood me. I know they wont sell to trade as they refused to sell to me. I am just saying it is not right. But it is something that all publicans should do (fair play to Gibneys). Everyone wins. Customer gets cheaper drink and publican gets the same mark up on the splash.
Beefy78 wrote: » I'm sure I've read before that the mark-up on soft drinks from the tap in the UK is huge. It's just so cheap that pubs can make a lot of profit on it and still keep the price down.
questionmark? wrote: » JDW don't charge for any dashs like a lot of other pubs in the UK. I'm sure they are factored in to the overall price. Then again I can get a double Bells whiskey and coke for £2.89 in my local JDW!!! A double Jameson doesn't cost much more. I know the measures in Ireland are a little bigger but you don't get much change from €15 on a double whiskey and bottle of coke in Ireland.
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