The Great British Rip off

[Magicpole]

Festwich the other week, a lad who went sent it to our group
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That place called Dick Turpin’s?

 

[mexico1970]

Ditto and at Leicester the scurlious ones were trying to extract £6.60 for a pint of lager beer and for me thats just a bridge too far.

Hospitality in general are in for the biggest roller coast ride of their lives and I wonder how long our own club can keep up the pretence with a cat A game retailing at £68.

Just been online looking for somewhere to take her indoors out for her birthday tomorrow and when she has seen the prices she has said no every time (I played the martyr saying I would pay because it's her birthday but she said no ;) ) So we are going to a bistro instead where the food is very well priced without the fancy plates or crimped polished lettuce.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Whilst I have sympathy to a degree with leisure industry now I think it’s pure greed, even staying local is not cheap, I’ve started drinking IPAs/MPAs make my arse stink but funnily enough no hangovers unlike drinking any lager from a pump.

 

[El_george]

We did the same, took the Family as it's about half hour from me, Flower Bowl? We never did the curling and went round crazy golf twice to get my money's worth, expensive place.

Yeh, thats the place. The best thing we did was the 'shuffleboard' which was a bit like a mini tabletop version of curling: £15 for half an hour and they seemed to forget about the timer and we stayed on for longer than that! But as we left I just said to myself that to have a day there, the curling & maybe a meal wont be happening anytime soon unless my lottery numbers come in :(

 

[BlueMoonday]

Drinks are a rip off now. I've no idea where the margin is being added, I imagine it's breweries adding the margin as pubs don't make a huge mark up on drinks. Pubs then make their margin from food.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Went to the Rewind festival in Macclesfield yesterday, I’ve been going since the inception in 2014 but always camping this time it was a day trip for various reasons. Now unlike Glastonbury you can’t take your own booze or food in and they do search you, even things like crisps aren’t allowed. Now I get that these food companies have to charge to make a profit but fuck me yesterday I think I saw the beginning of the end for the leisure sector. A few years ago you average takeaway was about £7, not bad for a festival, yesterday £12, £7 a pint, I bought two small tubs of ice cream, £5 each! Didn’t seem to stop many getting hammered but a lot was smuggled in (there are ways ;) ) Thing is we’re does it end, with the what’s coming in winter the leisure sector is going to the wall first God help them at Xmas.

The youth who still live at home and have loads of spare cash will keep the leisure sector going just fine this Winter with the World Cup on and then Christmas and New Year.

 

[mexico1970]

Festwich the other week, a lad who went sent it to our group
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Sausage chips and gravy £9, fck right off :)

 

[andyhinch]

I moved from Cambridge to Sheffield 18 months ago to be near 2 lads and City.
My youngest lives next to Piccadilly and has stopped going out reguarly as a pint of premium lager now near £7 in Northern Quarter.

Meanwhile I'm still paying £3.20 a pint of quality real ale in Kelham Island, the Sheffield equivalent. Eating out probably a third cheaper too.

Plenty of places in town you can get a pint for £3

 

[Dirty Harry]

It’s a right piss take, having worked in the catering industry, I have a very good idea of the costs to bring in goods and profit margins, the one that pisses me off most though is the dessert menu, often around £6 for a slither of cheesecake, yet I know they get the whole cheesecake for around £28, if they get 16 portions from that (and I’m being generous here because a lot of places cut thinner and get more), that’s £96, I’ll let you work out the profit they’ve made there and whether you think that’s ok, I don’t, I’ll go home and have something or even go to MacDonalds and get a MacFlurry.

 

[BimboBob]

Drinks are a rip off now. I've no idea where the margin is being added, I imagine it's breweries adding the margin as pubs don't make a huge mark up on drinks. Pubs then make their margin from food.

Soft drinks is, and has always been the case, the way any pub makes a huge mark up. 18 quid will buy you a postmix of coca cola which makes 45 litres of drink. Which is nearly 200 half pints. If my maths is correct. Even if they charge 2 pound a half that's still 400 quid. Not a bad mark up.