Super-Rush wrote: » Supposed to be a JDW coming to Carlow soon.
LordSutch wrote: » Surely JD Wetherspoon must be ready to open anytime now (Blackrock)? Anyone heard when it opens, or if it's already open for business?
Capt'n Midnight wrote: » Refit every few years, I'd rather a place with real charm than a plastic pub that looks like someone threw the contents of a recently deceased farmers shed up on the wall
Gaillimh1976 wrote: » Breweries charge pubs more than supermarkets Wages are much much higher here than in UK Insurance, Council Rates much higher than in UK Not a fair comparison to just look at price of a pint vs price of a pint
SteM wrote: » That's just another excuse the industry will give to fleece the public. Using that logic, if you're buying a pint and order a drink from a tap that is down the other end of the bar you should pay more because the barman has to walk further to go and get it and bring it back? Single spirits should be more than half the cost of double spirits? You should pay more for a soft drink with ice because the barman has to go to the ice bucket and get it? Guinness should have an extra cost because the barman has to let it rest and then go back to it? A barman is there to serve a drink, the time it takes to serve it should not factor into the cost of half pints vs full pints.
Lucena wrote: » The time a barman spends on a half or on a pint is almost similar, so the extra time (relatively speaking) needs to be paid for.
joeguevara wrote: » One thing I did like about wetherspoons when I was there was that half a pint cost half as much as a pint. Unlike most pubs where it is 2/3 the cost. That could have changed as well.
meemeemee wrote: » Wethersppoons is like Disneyland. Alcohol, at pocket money prices.
MYOB wrote: » They're a lot more than a "little bigger", and we've far higher duty on spirits. Doesn't explain the full price gap though.
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.
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.
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.
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: » 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.
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?
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...
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.
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)!
