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Price of Coffee-Gresham Hotel etc...

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  • 13-06-2011 3:08pm
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    John32c
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭


    A bug bear of mine (since i drink a lot of coffee) is the price of a cup of coffee in coffee shops/pubs/restaurants/hotels. IMO there is no justification for charging more than €2.50 for a cup of coffee. Most coffee shops are in and around that price...Even the Merrion hotel only charges €3.00 (ok it is a 5 star hotel)
    So I nearly fell off my chair to be charged €4.00 for a cup of coffee in the Gresham hotel (it wasnt even nice) Total rip off imo!!


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    ger vallely
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    As far as my memory serves me, I think it is also €4 in Glasnevin cemetry coffee shop. I think €1.50 is more than enough for tea,of any kind. Possibly €2 for plain regular coffee. Chain coffee oulets, with indifferent staff, in an industrial area selling €3.50 coffee is terrible. So there!


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    maxer68
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    I suppose it depends on what you get for it. Many people use the Grasham for meetings, sit in their chairs for a couple of hours and buy one coffee - so €4 is great value.

    If you just want a 5 minute coffee fix, its not good value, but there are plenty of choices around.

    The choice is yours.


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    P. Breathnach
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    I like taking coffee in the Gresham. You get a more space than in most places, comfortable seats, service with a bit of a flourish, the coffee coming in a cafetiere. And the price is about right: not enough to put me off, but just about sufficient to deter the hoi-polloi.


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    the groutch
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    OP, places charge as much as people will pay
    you paid the €4, as will lots of other people


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    Ihaveanopinion
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    a cup of coffee in starbucks in the US is $1.50 or so

    to put it in context


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    the groutch
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    Ihaveanopinion wrote: »
    a cup of coffee in starbucks in the US is $1.50 or so

    to put it in context

    yeah, but a market of 300 million gives them better economies of scale, and people work for pittens over there


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    maxer68
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    Ihaveanopinion wrote: »
    a cup of coffee in starbucks in the US is $1.50 or so

    to put it in context
    no its not - more like $3-$4 unless on special.


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    siobhan.murphy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭siobhan.murphy


    I know this is about the gresham but mcdonalds do the best coffee,and answer to ur question here....

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100205101535AADPsW2


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    jett
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    with an old flask of boiled water and a cup in the car if one is that desperate.


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    amdublin
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    Ihaveanopinion wrote: »
    a cup of coffee in starbucks in the US is $1.50 or so

    to put it in context

    Link :confused:

    Maybe a cup of filter coffee...or drip as they call it in the states

    Which you can buy in starbucks here if you so wish!!

    Their speciality drinks are more than "$1.50 or so" in the states....and here...and everywhere....


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    amdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    maxer68 wrote: »
    I suppose it depends on what you get for it. Many people use the Grasham for meetings, sit in their chairs for a couple of hours and buy one coffee - so €4 is great value.

    If you just want a 5 minute coffee fix, its not good value, but there are plenty of choices around.

    The choice is yours.

    Agreed. Sometimes you are also paying for the experience not just a coffee.

    You could go and sit in a mcdonalds and have a euro coffee (nice coffee btw!) or you could go relax and enjoy whiling an hour away over a €4 coffee in the Gresham.

    The choice is yours!


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    robjones1981
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    4euro for a pot of tea in the gresham also


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    amdublin
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    robjones1981 wrote: »
    4euro for a pot of tea in the gresham also

    Yes.

    And again:
    amdublin wrote: »
    Sometimes you are also paying for the experience not just a coffeetea.

    You could go and sit in a mcdonalds and have a euro coffee tea or you could go relax and enjoy whiling an hour away over a €4 Coffee tea in the Gresham.

    The choice is yours!


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    patar
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    I think you really pay for the atmosphere and the surroundings... And for the fact that you're not with the common people ;D


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    reprazant
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    The Italian cafe on the Rathmines bridge has bloody lovely coffee for 1.50.

    I am not sure if it costs more to have in the cafe (it might do), I got it to go and it was the nicest coffee I've had in a while.

    No idea what the name of it is though.


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    KoolKid
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    ger vallely wrote: »
    As far as my memory serves me, I think it is also €4 in Glasnevin cemetry coffee shop.

    Was charged €5 for 2 small bottles of coke there on Sunday. Then the have the next to ask for donations when your leaving.:eek::eek:


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    patar
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭patar


    I was at Glasnevin Cemetery 3 weeks ago... I didn't know you had to pay for the exhibit and the receptionist let me in for free... They're not all bad ;D


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    P. Breathnach
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    KoolKid wrote: »
    Was charged €5 for 2 small bottles of coke there on Sunday. Then the have the next to ask for donations when your leaving.:eek::eek:

    Just be thankful that you were in a fit state to leave: many people never get out.


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    bigneacy
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    siobhan.murphy wrote: »
    I know this is about the gresham but mcdonalds do the best coffee,and answer to ur question here....

    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100205101535AADPsW2

    I hate to admit it, but yes. They really do!! McDonalds Coffee is Delicious!! :)


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    John32c
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭John32c


    maxer68 wrote: »
    I suppose it depends on what you get for it. Many people use the Grasham for meetings, sit in their chairs for a couple of hours and buy one coffee - so €4 is great value.

    If you just want a 5 minute coffee fix, its not good value, but there are plenty of choices around.

    The choice is yours.

    Merrion hotel charges €3 for a cup of coffee, can sit all night if I want, service 2nd to none and dont feel im being ripped off.


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    John32c
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    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    I like taking coffee in the Gresham. You get a more space than in most places, comfortable seats, service with a bit of a flourish, the coffee coming in a cafetiere. And the price is about right: not enough to put me off, but just about sufficient to deter the hoi-polloi.

    Im talking about a cup of coffee (not a cafetiere) for €4.00..that is taking the piss..PS if you want service go to the Merrion.


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    John32c wrote: »
    Im talking about a cup of coffee (not a cafetiere) for €4.00..that is taking the piss..PS if you want service go to the Merrion.

    So if I'm somewhere in the area of Upper O'Connell Street, and I want a coffee, I should head off to the Merrion Hotel? I'd probably need a hot drink to keep me going until I get there.


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