Chippers

It's as accurate as you are going to find anywhere because it is a factual report from 15th March 2023.

If you read it properly it mentions the 4,000 tonnes of seed potatoes that used to be imported has stopped since 2021 but outside of that Ireland imports 64,000 tonnes of potatoes from the UK with most of these being used by chip shop owners.

The report is based on information from the CSO, the chairman of the Irish Farrmers Association Potato Committee and the President of the Irish Potato Federation, the Minister for Agriculture and Teagasc so I don't know if you'll find anything on Facebook or socail media to contradict it but dig away anyway.

Coola Boola.

https://www.teagasc.ie/media/website/publications/2022/Fresh-Chipping-Potato-Project-2020-2022.pdf

Yeah, maybe you should bring this thread to the attention of all those professional people that have collated all the facts and figures and tell them you think they might be wrong.

Don't forget and tell them that you work in a restaurant.

you can boil eggs in it too just fyi

Start with Goujons or similar to get used to it, on the bone chicken will take a bit of trial and error. Google times and temperatures because it cooks quicker than a normal oven.

I expect the delivery companies would be taking a fair cut, just-eat, deliveroo etc. they take good % of the price and the sellers shrug and pass it onto the customer, and since covid it has gotten worse. As takeaways see more and more people using them they have to increase the prices, so the "walk in customers" suffer this, since most of the delivery places have rules and insist that the online prices match the menu price.

I know many of them will increase prices for these online companies, but its against the rules, so I expect many are cautious about doing so, and I imagine the increase does not match the cut the delivery place takes. So they will just increase the menu price for all.

You keep mentioning 50%, none of the chippers near me have gone up that much. I could get figures on a fair few, as I often email menus to friends. I can see in an email from jan 2020 in 3 near me the prices were 3.00, 3.00, 3.20 and now these are 3.99, 4.40 and 4.00. The one which is 4.40 is a running joke, none of us use them as they are so expensive. The other 3 I go to are 3.90, 3.90, 3.80, all in south Dublin, I think another is 3.50 but the site is down. Burdocks in christchurch is 5.80 for a bag of chips, laughable, in my local I get a "junior box with a breast piece" for 6.50, huge bit of chicken and plenty of chips.

I see plenty of value still out there, I was getting a 2 piece snack box on for 5.50 up until a few weeks ago, an all day special every thursday and friday for ages, and half the time I got a breast piece as a free upgrade. Gone to 6 now but still good.

Just vote with your feet folks!,same with the pubs- don't be ripped off!

two local chippers increased prices, not by a lot but one pushing 4e and one slightly over 4e. Chips are not as many as they used to be.

We'd go once a month now, or maybe even slightly longer periods. Like someone says, vote with your feet.

Our take away spend has fallen, not that we would eat a huge amount, but were kind of a regular every other week consumer for the chipper.

A chinese take-away we used to go to, a couple of items were around 17.50 earlier in the year, now the same order is 23 euro, i challenged them, politely of course, they just said " its the vat". the place was full, i said the vat is only gone up a small percentage. yet you are hiking prices by over 30% appx - i got the blank stare. Wont be going back there either.

If you're happy to pay the prices, thats fine, but dont be irish - moan about it, take it over a barrel and then put your head up for another slap in the face.

there is no end in sight imo of rising costs, its going to get a lot more expensive i reckon, id love to be proved wrong of course.

33% of the order in some cases.

Was that in a regular chipper or some fancy burger food truck? If a regular chipper - that's madness.

Why would a burger food truck be dearer?

€13ish seems pretty standard for fish and chips in Cork. Curry sauce is always extra.

Prices have gone up a lot pretty much everywhere.

That's a good comparison. Although it is said the sit down restaurants are making their money on beverages, desserts etc not the mains.

For those in Dublin looking for value, there's a few "San Marino" chippers about the place such as Artane, Santry, Monkstown. They have daily specials, lunch deals, meal deals, so about the best value chipper I've come across around D5 but just noting their chips are the 'crispier' sort.