Drinks in the 3 Arena, why do we still accept poor quality drinks at these events?

I went to the 1833 club or 1866 club before a gig last year and ordered a white wine.
there was not a great selection and the wine was terrible. Not just me, three of us got it and it was undrinkable - a first for me😂

food was just ok too

3 Arena is owned by the same crowd who own TicketBasterd. I think that probably tells you all you need to know; it’s all about the profit, and maintaining a monopoly so that they don’t need to bother with quality or customer service.

there is no regular repeat custom.

the clientele there is captive, no competition.

So they have zero incentive to be investing in the ‘customer experience’.

With the likes of Vicar St, Whelan’s, The Olympia etc….. there are numerous excellent / decent pubs within walking distance…..

Look at the Olympia / Vicar St….Brogans, The Norseman, Hogans, The Long Hall, The Lord Edward …

I stopped going into the Olympia early for pints as they never had enough bar staff and who they did have if busy never factored in who was due to be served next… look up from pulling a pint and whomever is in their eye line might get served You might have been waiting 3 minutes, person getting served ahead of you might be there 30 seconds…

The answer is simple, you can accept it or not eat or drink anything, or just not go to the show

I know a lot of people are pointing fingers at Ticketmaster, and rightly so. However, I think it's fair to say that you're unlikely to get good drinks or food at any major concert venue

Festivals might at least have more variety and value for money, but still gonna be at least 50% price hike over regular pubs (which are already overpriced)

You weren't there for the drinks, the drinks were not the reason you will or won't go to the venue again in the future.

So as a rule, increasing the quality of the drinks will not meaningfully increase the profits.

So from a business point of view, why would they invest in increasing the quality of the drinks?

Same as prices at airports. You have no other option. As pointed out above the last thing on the venues mind is the quality of the drinks it won't stop people buying them.

I do think your onto something there. If word got around that drinks were good at 3 Area for example it might give their image a slight boost in that they actually give a **** about the punters and peoplemight go to place earlier. I used to manage big nightclubs and some gigs up to 3000 people and when I put a bit more effort into drink/staff quality the reputation when way up.

Haven't been in the Point since maybe 2012. When it was locally owned I don’t remember the drinks being that bad. Unfortunately you’re there to see the band and they can shaft you after that. You’ll still turn up for the next gig by the band there or someone else you like. Ticketbastard abd the accommodation sector rightly screw people for gigs so it would be good to see a trend where people started voting with their feet and went abroad for gigs where you’d get a nice weekend away for the same price as a hotel dbd hug tracker in shítty old Dublin.

I’ve never been to a seated gig at the 3arena as usually standing, but I’ll be sitting in the tiers for a gig soon and am just wondering if you are allowed bring your drinks to your seat or do you have to drink them in the common area?

€7.50 for 2 bottles of water last week. Plus they removed and dumped the corks which are supposed to be part of the recycling package. As per header, why do we accept such poor quality service and drinks?