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One-year freeze on drink prices

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    #122
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    if prices were lower people could afford taxis home :pac:

    If the taxi home was cheaper we could afford more booze:D


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    #123
    seamus
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    mikeruurds wrote: »
    The pubs and Diageo wouldn't quote the retail price of a keg inclusive of VAT as all pubs would be able to claim the VAT inputs. I believe the 2007 keg price quoted earlier was reported by Diageo - it would suit them to quote it as cheaply as possible, so therefore excl. of VAT. Also, prices quoted to trade are usually quoted ex. VAT.
    Yeah, that's what I would have thought.

    However, it would suit publicans to quote the price of a keg inc. VAT. :)

    But assuming that excise is charged at source, and the pubs charge €4 per pint for 88 pints, that changes the profit margin to 42%.


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    #124
    Corcaigh84
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Corcaigh84


    BraziliaNZ wrote: »
    pubs are different in ireland than elsewhere. I drank in the same pub in dublin for years and the barstaff never knew my name or said hello or anything, even though it was the same ones all along. In other countries i've lived in such as Canada and NZ and now Oz, they tend to talk to you more, and pour you free drinks sometimes, and run up tabs for you, etc. They're usually a lot more friendly. I don't get it really. Although there is a bit more professionalism to it in Ireland I prefer the more laid back friendly approach they have in other countries.

    Maybe it's a Dublin/(insert any county/country) thing. I have 2 'locals' in Cork, one in the city and one down the country, and they know me by name in both.
    This is also the case for another couple of bars in the city.

    It seems to me in Cork anyway that if you have a bit of banter the odd time with the bar staff, they'll remember you.


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