Kinkladze 1
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The Great British Rip off
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flook
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restaurant prices typically 50% up on pre-covid prices, the answer is simple, eat out 50% less and fuck the profiteering cunts. Trouble is when you take that across all sectors you wind up stopping in and leading a very dull life
Blue Maverick
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Don’t know my mum and dad had a simple life and enjoyed it and we did as 3 kids!restaurant prices typically 50% up on pre-covid prices, the answer is simple, eat out 50% less and fuck the profiteering cunts. Trouble is when you take that across all sectors you wind up stopping in and leading a very dull life
M18CTID
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Literally not that much different to the vast majority of bars/pubs in Manchester city centre. Outside of Wetherspoons, the Piccadilly Tavern, Sinclair's Oyster Bar, the Lower Turks Head (now that Holts have it), the Hare And Hounds, and that rotten stuff they serve in Wave Bar and Sachas, you won't be paying much less, if at all. I've sometimes even found London pub prices to be cheaper than some Manchester bars in recent years when doing an away game down The Smoke.Am based in London these days. Went to the pub for the first time in years with a mate who was down from Manchester and got charged around £11 for a rum and coke plus half a lager. It was the same in the next pub.
I was shocked but for all I know that charge is typical.
How does it compare with the North of England/other places?
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stonerblue
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Mate of mine was at a festival last week and got just eat to deliver a take away to the main gate.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.
stonerblue
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Fiver in my localsAm based in London these days. Went to the pub for the first time in years with a mate who was down from Manchester and got charged around £11 for a rum and coke plus half a lager. It was the same in the next pub.
I was shocked but for all I know that charge is typical.
How does it compare with the North of England/other places?
Got woke up in the morning by 3 bears coming back home?Travel insurance is a must. I won't go anywhere without it. You just don't know what can happen in a different country.
I was in benidorm the other week and ended up in the wrong hotel pissed up. I got in and they gave me a card to get in the room I told them I was in. Luckily nobody was in there but the next day I thought how easy was that if you had bad intentions. Quite scary I just said room 702 and they regenerated a card and gave it me. I was shocked when I woke up and realised I was in the wrong hotel. Insurance is a definite especially on holiday with all the lads.
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Surprised they allowed it in, they wouldn’t at Rewind, no food or drink allowed in, unless it’s a sealed bottle of water.Mate of mine was at a festival last week and got just eat to deliver a take away to the main gate.
I think it's staffing that is causing the big problems. The Thai near me is advertising for bar staff at £11ph and the minimum wage is what £9? These places clearly can't get the staff.
It's really unfair for people to say that all of these places are just being greedy. For many they have to increase prices or they'll go bust. More pubs are going bust than are surviving. For chains they probably are coining it in as they have the scale to reduce prices but your local probably isn't and no pub owner will work 16hr days to earn nowt.
It's really unfair for people to say that all of these places are just being greedy. For many they have to increase prices or they'll go bust. More pubs are going bust than are surviving. For chains they probably are coining it in as they have the scale to reduce prices but your local probably isn't and no pub owner will work 16hr days to earn nowt.