Price gouging by the pub, restaurant & hotel industry

Depends. If you go in and sit down you're sitting in a rented premises, with staff, and bills. The food itself needs to be cooked and prepared.

Breakdown probably something like 13/14 for the sambo, 6 for the fries and 4 for the coffee. Saucy enough but its in Blackrock. Rents would reflect that too. Say its two people, thats 50 quid. Could've been there an hour. Restaurant gets maybe 35 quid of that after tax before costs - food, labour et al. So maybe 15-20 quid profit all in. For an hour.

Again, the prices would've been on the menu. You don't even have to go. Just look online first.

I find it bizarre people walking into a place, ordering food, eating it and then complaining that it was a rip off. Just don't go!

They'll, more than likely, not go back.

Good value in early birds as well if people are price aware.

Plenty of good restaurants in Dublin doing cheap 3 courses up until 7PM.

Do you expect people to forgo essentials to go and pay 20 euro for a burger that's not logical. All wage increases over the last 12/13 years have been eaten up by inflation and wages are not rising so in effect the working population has seen a wage decrease in real terms. The idea that you want people to make really unrealistic decisions like leaving the heating off for the evening and then they might be able to afford a 20 Euro burger is really pie in the sky stuff the essentials have gone through the roof for the standard worker. If someone is running a business that's not viable then its up to them to cut and run or charge a price point that is more affordable if they are not making a profit then they hit the wall that's how it works. You can bet that with the looming taxes that were parked during covid which have to be paid soon may well see a lot of businesses closing.

I paid 9.50 for a cheeseburger in Bunsen last week. Really good burger.

Probably could've went into a fancy hotel and paid 20 quid but I decided not to.

9.50 you could of have bought 4 burgers, baps, bag of spuds, bottle of minerals and had a family dinner for four of burgers and chips and a drink and not having to tip for same price. I didn't bring the 20 Euro burger into the discussion by the way some other poster did.

Or about 20KG of flour. Imagine all the good you can make with this?

Thats another thing about value that annoys me. People moaning about supermarkets prices but they dont cook, just buy pre made stuff. Thats for another thread.

"Cheap meat and bread" is a very antiquated view of a sandwich.

I often pay 10 to 12 for sandwiches in Limerick and they are way tastier and more intricate that many "dinners" I have bought for those prices.

Same attitude all over this thread about fish & chip and burgers.

I'm a good Catholic lad. Using condiments would be a sin!