‘We are like farmers going into winter without fodder’ – restaurants to protest over increased costs
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/10/15/we-are-like-farmers-going-into-winter-without-fodder-restaurants-to-protest-over-increased-costs/
Posted by That_Technician_439
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What’s that, inompetent and looking for handouts?
If you can’t run a business close, someone else will fill the gap
Ye got plenty of free fodder and kept it yerselves
Hospitality businesses aren’t meant to be kept afloat by the government. Churn is normal and necessary.
If the expenses are high, the prices are high. It is as simple as that.
Giant corporations can easily eat any increases without passing onto customers.
Small businesses? No way.
I do feel for some of the restaurant owners out there. Serious costs have been laden over recent years including cost of food and energy. Often met on the other side by the public who are dismayed that the cost on their side has gone up too. So it’s from both ways.
Of all topics, this will get the most backlash here. This sub goes full Thatcher when it hears of restaurant owners citing costs.
Sure stick the prices up again and make the portions smaller, it’s been working so well in the past
As with the publicans, I have yet to meet an impoverished restaurateur
How is it the government responsibility to bail out a private business?
> It is a fortnight since the Government ignored pleading from the hospitality sector and refused to cut the VAT rate from 13.5 per cent back to Covid-19 levels of 9 per cent in the budget
I too would like to pay less tax. Funny how when the vat was reduced they still upped the prices
The bubble is bursting. The shit show is coming
“Hughes has 25 full- and part-time staff, of whom 90 per cent are on the minimum wage;”
Kind of says it all.
They’d have a lot more support if they were passing on the vat reduction. Fuck them the greedy cunts.
2 x 2 Course Set Menu is €72 in this place but sure, it’s everyone else’s fault
I have stopped eating out. I just felt ripped off everytime.
This smells like a builder complaining about wages and driving away in a new Range Rover.
If you can’t make a go of your business close it down and do something else. Nobody owes you a living. These losers were spoiled during COVID and are now looking for handouts. The fact that government has put hundreds of millions of euro into the economy in the form of tax cuts to increase disposable income appears to be lost on these guys. Pay your taxes and carry on charging €8 for a slice of Sysco cheesecake. Anywhere that charges more than the hourly wage that they are paying their staff for a starter deserves to close down.
The extra 4.5% in vat isn’t what’s stopping people going out. If a cup of coffee costs €4 it’ll only be marginally cheaper at the 9% rate. The problem is that it’s €4.
When Covid was clearing and we were encouraged to stay local and support the restaurant and hotel industry they gouged the prices up to maximise profits.
No sympathy for these owners.
It’s the staff, who are prob on minimum wage and ungodly hours, who are losing their jobs I feel sorry for.
Restaurants tied themselves to the hotel industry who have been taking in such ungodly amounts of profit since COVID between surge pricing around concerts and taking in government money for housing migrants.
The industry seems to forget the tax break was due to decreased footfall as a result of forced closures
> Burke wonders how much she can realistically charge for a coffee and a scone to absorb the costs.
How much does she charge now?
The joys of the free market. Nobody said it was easy.
Half the comments here are from people with not an iota of how much it costs to run a local cafe or restaurant in Ireland. This one lad complaining of steak not being from a local butchers and freshly baked buns? What planet are you living on?
It’s from suppliers who raise their prices, along with electricity and council rates skyrocketing. So naturally some places have to raise prices to keep their head above water because not every restaurant is in Donnybrook or ballsbridge and has a wealthy population around it to soak up the costs.
Cop on and wake up from your dream land half of you.
‘member they all shafted us during re-opening during/after covid because there was higher demand and decided to grab all they could despite getting loads of financial support from government for years?
🖕
We can pile on restaurants as much as we want (and let’s be honest the whole hospitality area hasn’t covered themselves in glory the last few years) but there are too many big name restaurants closing for it to be anything but a crisis
Something drastically needs to happen to make these businesses viable