O'Briens

Dr.Bunson

Has anybody else noticed the unbelievable price hikes in O'Briens - It's now 3 Euro for a large coffee (previously 2.35)?

Will you quietly accept the price hike, or will you do somethinhg about it? I went out and bought "Kenco - pure Colombian", no more money for O'Briens from me...

Random

But their Chicken & Bacon tripledecker is sooooo good with melted cheese! They've a complete rip off but I still buy it from time to time - its' nice food!

copacetic

tripledeckers are where it's at, although I normally swop the slaw for tomato. the toostie version is great if you have time to wait. although it is robbery. €1.70 extra to put a bit of cheese on it and toast it!

legs11

fcuk o briens, i used to go into one in mahon cork years ago with work gang, just a few times when i saw the price of sandwiches.....

then they coo about "look at sandwiches made fresh in front of you."

WOW!!!!!!!!!!
amazing.... never made a sandwich before, feel sorry for the Q out the door buying food there really.

fatboypee

wasn't a mean-ass til I started to calculate how much any sangidges are these days:

say, 3.50 plus a coke at 90c = 4.40 per day x 5 = 22.00 per week

X that by 48 working weeks (assuming the average 4 weeks hols) and you get..

1056.00 per year, just on lunch..

If you're lucky enuff to earn top-rate tax you'd need to earn 1500 a year to pay for it....

thats just lunch without crisps and a v.mean sangidge..

put like that I don't feel such a saddo bringing me own

FBP..

cold_filter

When i worked for tesco part time a few years back, every saturday i went to obriens, expensive yes... but oh so tasty!! I bring my lunch now as where i worked now the subsidised canteen is a ripoff!! 1 euro for 2 sausages!

mcaul

copacetic wrote:

tripledeckers are where it's at, although I normally swop the slaw for tomato. the toostie version is great if you have time to wait. although it is robbery. €1.70 extra to put a bit of cheese on it and toast it!

The problem here is cold food does not have VAT on it and hot food has VAT at 21%. This explains about €1 of the increase. - O'Briens should put a notice to this effect in their stores to avoid the questions about the price disparity.

copacetic

mcaul wrote:

The problem here is cold food does not have VAT on it and hot food has VAT at 21%. This explains about €1 of the increase. - O'Briens should put a notice to this effect in their stores to avoid the questions about the price disparity.

but the normal tripledecker has a piece of toast in the middle. sometimes it is hot sometimes not, where does that fit in?

Joe_Soap

I never go in to O'Briens. It really irritates me they way they scrape on a thin layer of each filling. And then they look at you as though you have two heads when you ask them to put on a bit more of a filling.

copacetic

Joe_Soap wrote:

I never go in to O'Briens. It really irritates me they way they scrape on a thin layer of each filling. And then they look at you as though you have two heads when you ask them to put on a bit more of a filling.

you must be going to the wrong one or they don't like you, the one I go to piles it on

coffee_cake

When I want to think about the price of a sandwich, I wonder how many loaves of bread I could buy for the same price...
it's usually at least one or two.
Thankfully I never go near o'briens, 1.50 is enough for any coffee..

Joe_Soap

copacetic wrote:

you must be going to the wrong one or they don't like you, the one I go to piles it on

I find its the same for any of them I've been to.

chump

o'briens almost 'pretend' white bread writes it off for me - the stuff is the most processed tasteless pretend stuff you can buy. It's the kind of white bread that doesn't go stale for a week - except of course for the crusts.

I actually had to return a sambo there before, the white bread was as soft as you like, but the crust of the bread was mouldy! No Joke. So I returned it, they said 'meh', looked at the loaf, and tossed it in the bin too.

Funny thing was just how soft the white element of the bread was - just goes to show the preservatives and crap they throw into white bread these days.

dudara

TBH I think that their coffee is muck. There are lots of far better cafes around than going there.

mcaul

Thank god we have subway here these days - sandwiches properly filled, no extra charge for extra salads, double cheese no problem, double meat no problem (small extra charge) and add in Jalapenos & chilli sauce and you have a fecker of a sandwich! - And you choose from 6 types of decent bread!

O'Briens = Boring

Joe_Soap

Subway is definitely the way forward! Foot long cheese steak or meatball marinara, fantastic!

Nightwish

Subway = no butter so O'Briens wins by default, which is unfortunate.

copacetic

mcaul wrote:

Thank god we have subway here these days - sandwiches properly filled, no extra charge for extra salads, double cheese no problem, double meat no problem (small extra charge) and add in Jalapenos & chilli sauce and you have a fecker of a sandwich! - And you choose from 6 types of decent bread!

O'Briens = Boring

dunno about this, we had subway long before o'briens iirc and it was far from a pleasant experience. although the newer ones do seem better..