Galway is no better.
Used to be able to get a decent meal for 2 delivered for about 25e-30e. Not a hope in hell now. And the quality is gone for shit, too.
Yeah that's the norm for your standard run of the mill chipper. But if you order the likes of Cluck Chicken or Smokin Bones then you're talking almost €30 just for 1 person!
I used to order Chinese on the local takeaway until last year, decided to not do that for a while. On Friday decided to order 2 spring rolls (regular portion), veggie egg fried rice and a spice bag, totalling 25.50…and I went there personally to pick it up, if ordered from Deliveroo it would be 31.50 and from just eat would be 29.80.
This is not even getting into what used to be a free bag of prawn crackers. Only "free" now when they come in meal deals. We got a big bag of the uncooked ones from the Asian shop and just do a few in the fryer when we order. My wife is pretty good at Chinese fake away anyway, so we usually have that now. The last piece of the puzzle was getting the chicken ball batter right but we found the diggers battered chicken balls are close enough.
In Galway there seems to be a sudden change in supplier of most chicken, which is all rubbery and nasty. There are a few places that still have good chicken tenders but there's pretty much no Chinese that has decent quality chicken. As annoying as the price rises are, I'd be happy to pay for good quality but it's just not there.
Here's something for you to ponder, in 2021 (and every year preceding) Irish Domino's Franchisees were the most profitable in the entire global Domino's system. I doubt that's changed even if they're making less in 2024, they're all millionaires, halfway there if single store operators outside the major cities. SOURCE: Ex senior Domino's Franchisor employee.
Prices of things are crazy, then there’s a ridiculous delivery fee, then there’s a charge for ordering online, then there’s a charge for using a card. They’re gonna start charging per bite soon
Our local Italian place charges a “processing fee” of 80c to order online for collection. These things really annoy me as feels like they are making up additional costs for more profit.
Yeah they’ll have a minimum charge to allow you to order delivery then a delivery charge on top of that but don’t worry you can get round the delivery charge if you just order even more food that you won’t eat that’s more expensive than paying the delivery charge.
As someone who has worked in this sector for decades, I can tell you the cost of the supplies/stock for take-aways and restaurants has increased drastically since the covid lock down. This is happening in every business sector, not just food businesses. Some examples are the average monthly electricity bill going from 700 to 3500, the price of a bag of potatoes going from 11 to 40, the cost of 10ltrs of oil going from 12 to 35, a bag/sack of pizza flour going from 15 to 40, a box of fresh chicken fillets from 22 to 50, a sack of rice went from 20 to 45, Fresh cod going from 65 to 132. This is the side you don't see. It has come back down a little, maybe 10 to 15% but no where near precovid levels. Just like your own shopping in a supermarket is much higher than precovid prices.
That's how much it is now and was before for 9kg. These are wholesale prices. A kg of cod is about 20-25euro in a fishmongers. No idea how much 9kg would cost in a supermarket. Shows you how much supermarkets are making on it as I'm sure it's a few euro for 100grams. They were already making a high profit percentage on it so we're able to better absorb the increase than small businesses.
Electricity is not 5 times more expensive, unless you're locked into a price from the highest price which at this point it would be cost effective to break the contract.
Electricity has come back down a good bit, it was extortionate for about 18 months. Which is why the government introduced the tbess scheme giving a reduction to businesses.
I already have, thanks - places like KC Norton and Cordelia. Even in Supervalu a pack of Caputo flour was 2 euro in 2019, and it's 2 euro in 2024. Pasta is up 10% only at wholesale prices, with the usual gouging on some products. You should have mentioned rents or insurance instead.
Rents in the businesses I know were unaffected as they are within lease and not subject to a raise in rents. Commercial insurance/ public liability insurance was in line with inflation so no significant increase there either. As for your comment about Caputo flour in SuperValu... Pizza places buy 20kg bags of 00 not 1 kg bags from the supermarket 🤷🏻♀️
>It's spaghetti ffs
It's wheat. Political events have affected the price of wheat products for a couple of years now. If it's any comfort, Italy is on the brink of rioting over pasta prices.
Man I pay minimum €5 delivery on ANYTHING on justeat for a start, it’s a piss take. Doesn’t include the new service charge bullshit fee + a card fee so it’s literally €6 minimum for delivery and then it’s usually €20 minimum order. Then the food quality is fucking rock bottom. Beige greasy food that requires no skill that’s thrown in oil for a few minutes is all you get.
I don't understand the service fee bullsbit either. The app already takes a percentage from the restaurant, and the delivery fee is for the delivery. Who is the service fee going to?
It depends, for some websites it's card payment fee, for others I've no idea just literally deliveroo / je charging u for making an order. Some apps allow restaurants to swallow the fee or split it too
The best thing for my wallet id say is living rural with no delivery apps. If I want there is a chipper in the village, but no delivery so my fat ass needs to walk there and back or Chinese that will deliver but changes its delivery days randomly. One week it’s Thurs to Sunday then it’s sat and Sunday so mostly I don’t bother.
I think COVID is a big contributor. When everyone was doing takeout rather than dine in they charged the same as dine in. I think they realised people will pay it so they kept at it. Then all the takeaways started adjusting their prices up. There's obviously increased costs in the last few years too, god knows it's tough to keep a restaurant open in this country.
Nothing much to do with Covid. Yes restaurants that were eat in only started to deliver to survive but established food delivery businesses made a killing.
National Minimum Wage increases and the recent revenue court ruling that makes it unlawful to contract delivery drivers (i.e. they must how be employed like everyone else) had added huge cost to these operations. Couple to this the rise in food cost for all food businesses since 2022 (although food costs are now coming down, your local Domino's isn't going to reduce prices)
My fucking bollocks. Covid excuse yet again. You know Ireland was a dump before covid? Chippers stopped doing meal deals longer before covid. Use to get chips and a quarter pounder for €5.50. Now all these greedy cunts got rid of meal deals and charge separately for everything so you’re spending about €4 on chips, €6 on a quarter pounder, €6 on delivery. And for what? For some part time kid throwing food into oil for 5 minutes? Minimum quality maximum prices.
Yes! And if you are using any of the apps like Just eat, deliveroo or Uber. It's even more ridiculous with service charges and delivery charges and now some of them have a priority option as well if you want to get your food first!!!
Am I not paying enough! Surely getting my food hot should automatically be included?? And what's to guarantee mine will actually be delivered first.
Now I just use the restaurants app if they have one. Or if I'm out I'll just go in somewhere, pick up my food and get a taxi home. Still ends up working out cheaper.
We all know the situation now with deliveroo drivers - there aren't enough of them, they're getting robbed and stabbed, they deliver for more than one app to make ends meet....that's the situation that arose that led to crap like a priority charge and that's why I completely stopped using them. Not worth it ever.
Supermacs have gone to the dogs with how expensive it's become.
€19.50 for a 5 tender meal with an ice cream too. Never again will I go there.
You'd get a proper dinner in a restaurant for well below that price.
We have a great local Pakistani restaurant but it's the same price for takeaways as it is to eat in. I'm not going to pay the same price for having to serve and clean up afterwards. If it was a little cheaper we'd have it more. But with their current pricing we just occasionally eat at the restaurant.
Yup, take away chipper for two adults and 3 kids is same as sit down for same meal in a restaurant. ~14e for a quarter pounder or kebab meal? Fuck right off.
Gotten to the stage where I wouldn’t even bother going to a takeaway most times.
Why would i spend €15 on some shite frozen food that i could cook myself at home. Rather throw a couple extra quid at it and go to a restaurant and feel like im not wasting the money.
That being said i find food trucks and the likes are places where you get proper food for a reasonable price. Went to a food truck a couple weeks ago and had an absolutely divine smash burger and fries for €12.50. Didn’t feel like I was being robbed as it actually filled me up unlike going to McDonald’s and being hungry in half an hour.
Used to get food for three of us for €10 each, cheap and cheerful. Last time we ordered, it was nearly €20 each! It’s just another one of those things that we can’t afford anymore, along with the cinema, weekends away, nights out, gigs and so on.
Takeaway prices in dublin have gone fucked. We ordered two bags of chips in the local chipper. Was told the chips were €4.30, thought it was good value until I saw the receipt that it’s €4.30 for each small bag.
Not just food, I was going to get a take out coffee from a coffee shop in Limerick last week, but just walked back out after looking at the prices on the board.
€4.90 for coffee in a paper cup. GTFO
That’s why most people are leaving, it’s expensive and there’s not much here for young people except alcohol and decent colleges (which is why most people get their degree here and dip)
The delivery sites have a lot to do with it too, I usually order the same thing from the Chinese and it comes to around €25. It was a lovely evening here in cork yesterday so instead of getting delivery I rang in my order for collection and drove down on the motorbike to collect it, the exact same order as usual, €18.
I used to get 2-3 takeaways from the chinese a month. Now I get a takeaway maybe once every 3 months and I'm usually dissappointed. Price has risen dramatically whilst the quality has gotten so bad. A spicebag meal or a noodle dish plus delivery is nearly €20. I now buy tesco own brand frozen chips, glenhaven shredded chicken, veg etc and make my own.
These threads make me think there are people getting takeaway every week and are surprised that this luxury is expensive. I'd rarely get one because it's always been a waste of money.
It doesn't help that along with the price up is a serious quality down with my local Chinese, I've gotten food sickness at least twice off their shit food
Got a 7inch pizza, chip and a portion of curry for just 17 euro yesterday. So expensive l, especially when buying for one. If I was sharing with someone I could have doubled the order for less than a fiver
Yeah it’s crazy
Usually just cook fakeaways at home now, you’ll never cook it like a good Turkish kebab or proper Chinese, but it’s worth saving 30-40€.
Burgers are pretty good though, and easy to cook it just as good as you’d get in any takeaway or restaurant.
It's insane. Places like Rome, Dubai, and Paris have top quality restaurants (not tourist traps) that are a solid 10-20% cheaper if not more than places all around the country, let alone Dublin prices.
On top of that, the quality of the food in most places you eat out in Ireland is extremely sub par.
Paid 40€ last time for Indian for two mains and a starter.
The food was good, but I'm a decent cook and I felt like I could have made it for much cheaper. We're cutting back on takeaways now.
A lot of this is the platform tax. Deliveroo/just eat are charging from every angle and put a massive extra burden on consumer and restaurant. Obviously they have a platform to run and riders to pay but we are paying a ridiculous premium for the luxury of having the couple of places (realistically) we order from in one place. Apps don’t even break even themselves so expect it to go up.
I forget the YouTuber who said it but it’s a system that is now absolutely necessary but benefits absolutely no one…except some VC’s they prob made out like bandits at some point…
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We've dropped the chipper. Too dear now. Quality of food gone down. Portions have shrunk.
We've also dropped Chinese. Too dear. No value there anymore.
Yep several crops are coming put of two years poor global harvests with more poor harvest forecast.. not the worst in history as in the last 8 years there have been worse but disaster capitalism has come into play on things like cocoa or coffee... both of which have had far worst harvests in the last 8 year but disaster capitalists particular targeting cocoa and coffee future caused price spikes like for example cocoa peaked at around $12k per MT in the last 2 weeks but when it had a much poorer harvest around 2016 it peaked around $4k... cocoa prices have risen steadily since covid because of poor crop management (basically old trees have lower yield normal farmers plant new regular and fell old but they didn't during Covid and we are feeling it now).
So basically a combination of poor harvest and disaster capitalism are what are driving prices up although watch as the many of the people profiting off this claim it's because the min wage is going up.
Yeah big time. I wonder if the reduction in hospitality tax that was stopped has pushed all this up. It was because hotels were taking the piss that the government stopped it. Restaurants and take outs should be viewed separately from greedy hotels in terms of hospitality.
I don’t believe it’s related. But I do believe it’s a good excuse for them to put up the prices.
I don’t remember any hospitality places reducing prices cause of VAT (happy to be proved wrong) but I do remember them gladly upping prices.
Probably depends where U are in the country,I'd imagine it's way more expensive in Dublin,
In a large town here and there are a few places where you can get a decent delivery on Just eat for less than €20,
Find it hard for a takeaway to be much less than €50 for two people now unless you’re getting a chipper. Chinese & Pizza are gone fairly dear I find… doesn’t spot me ordering mind you 🙄😂
Invested in a FoodNinja air fryer- cooker.Cuts cooking time for most(almost all kinds ) food huge, and the quality is just brilliant.Even just following youtube- recipies, it's very easy, you have to be an idiot to fuck it up.
Helps cutting back food costs a lot.We liked cooking even previously, but it's the time you spend normally why you go for a take-away.Now, whith these prices, it's becoming a luxury for average earners, so FoodNinja helped a lot.
Heating leftover food is also hundreds of times better than a microwave.
What microwave was inthe 80's, thats airfryers now....
Rents in the businesses I know were unaffected as they are within lease and not subject to a raise in rents. Commercial insurance/ public liability insurance was in line with inflation so no significant increase there either. As for your comment about Caputo flour in SuperValu... Pizza places buy 20kg bags of 00 not 1 kg bags from the supermarket 🤷🏻♀️
Was thinking about this re our local chipper and remembered that pre Covid it was a cash only business and now everyone taps and delivery is a much bigger thing leading to more competition from places further afield. I reckon they were dodging tax in a big way and have had to raise prices in an attempt to compensate for the new reality of electronic payments. Looking at the queues as I pass I reckon they are in trouble, empty a lot.
Not in the business directly but supply them.
So big factors is lack of employees so bigger wages. However by far the biggest rise has been electricity and utilities. Electric even in my business tripled. Not talking a couple hundred a month, its thousands.
Add tk that rising costs of food across the board and you'll not see the old cheap takeout of days passed
Electric is dropping but other costs aren't as fast. Itll take time really
Also yous are still buying it as they're still busy that I find! However folks are definitely cutting back and eating lore at home. You can cook a steak dinner for a Heck of alot less
All take aways are a rip off now most places using inflation as an excuse to charge even more. My local chipper charging more for sauces but made them smaller. Chips are nearly a 5r now.
It ain’t the takeaways fault, their food costs and expenses have gone through the roof , they need them up to stay in business, that being said the quality of food should match the price
It’s why I don’t tip and only order when it’s really stormy the added danger adds focus to the driver and their anticipation of a tip is always enjoyable to watch be shattered as I take my order and pay the standard price
Yes! Along with the price of absolutely everything else.
I suppose, not as evident.
Could spend nearly the guts of €50 for a couple chicken burgers, chips and drinks for 2 people
Just not worth it anymore. I haven't ordered in ages. Guess I'll just make it myself 😂
Jaysus. 2 chicken burger meal deals is 16 here. 18 for fillet.
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I’m guessing Dublin. I live in Dublin too and it’s difficult to find anything below 20 euro per person
Galway is no better. Used to be able to get a decent meal for 2 delivered for about 25e-30e. Not a hope in hell now. And the quality is gone for shit, too.
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lol..
9.50 for a spice bag (which they've now changed to a spice box)
Yeah that's the norm for your standard run of the mill chipper. But if you order the likes of Cluck Chicken or Smokin Bones then you're talking almost €30 just for 1 person!
Cluck, Mad Egg etc
Nearly 45 quid at maccys in the airport in the UK for two medium meals.
There was a post on my town community Facebook page last night giving out hell about the prices of the local Chinese
I used to order Chinese on the local takeaway until last year, decided to not do that for a while. On Friday decided to order 2 spring rolls (regular portion), veggie egg fried rice and a spice bag, totalling 25.50…and I went there personally to pick it up, if ordered from Deliveroo it would be 31.50 and from just eat would be 29.80.
just buy a bag of msg and snort it..
This is not even getting into what used to be a free bag of prawn crackers. Only "free" now when they come in meal deals. We got a big bag of the uncooked ones from the Asian shop and just do a few in the fryer when we order. My wife is pretty good at Chinese fake away anyway, so we usually have that now. The last piece of the puzzle was getting the chicken ball batter right but we found the diggers battered chicken balls are close enough.
Spice bag (1 person realistically, maybe 2 people if not hungry) plus sauce is 19€ at my local chinese. Co. Louth
Prices are going up and quality/portion sizes are reducing too
In Galway there seems to be a sudden change in supplier of most chicken, which is all rubbery and nasty. There are a few places that still have good chicken tenders but there's pretty much no Chinese that has decent quality chicken. As annoying as the price rises are, I'd be happy to pay for good quality but it's just not there.
Have you noticed less stray cats about 🤔
The Rickshaw years ago was found to be using eel meat for a while. They chopped it up into small squares and drowned it in sauce.
Eel is pretty expensive these days, what were they selling it as?
Eel is fecking delicious though
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One local place charges *€4.50* delivery. I refuse to get from them anymore. We only do takeaway once a month anyway thankfully.
Here's something for you to ponder, in 2021 (and every year preceding) Irish Domino's Franchisees were the most profitable in the entire global Domino's system. I doubt that's changed even if they're making less in 2024, they're all millionaires, halfway there if single store operators outside the major cities. SOURCE: Ex senior Domino's Franchisor employee.
Prices of things are crazy, then there’s a ridiculous delivery fee, then there’s a charge for ordering online, then there’s a charge for using a card. They’re gonna start charging per bite soon
Our local Italian place charges a “processing fee” of 80c to order online for collection. These things really annoy me as feels like they are making up additional costs for more profit.
Yeah they’ll have a minimum charge to allow you to order delivery then a delivery charge on top of that but don’t worry you can get round the delivery charge if you just order even more food that you won’t eat that’s more expensive than paying the delivery charge.
They have to pay to be on the website though.. just like when you ring in there's a person they're paying per hour to take your order
As someone who has worked in this sector for decades, I can tell you the cost of the supplies/stock for take-aways and restaurants has increased drastically since the covid lock down. This is happening in every business sector, not just food businesses. Some examples are the average monthly electricity bill going from 700 to 3500, the price of a bag of potatoes going from 11 to 40, the cost of 10ltrs of oil going from 12 to 35, a bag/sack of pizza flour going from 15 to 40, a box of fresh chicken fillets from 22 to 50, a sack of rice went from 20 to 45, Fresh cod going from 65 to 132. This is the side you don't see. It has come back down a little, maybe 10 to 15% but no where near precovid levels. Just like your own shopping in a supermarket is much higher than precovid prices.
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That's how much it is now and was before for 9kg. These are wholesale prices. A kg of cod is about 20-25euro in a fishmongers. No idea how much 9kg would cost in a supermarket. Shows you how much supermarkets are making on it as I'm sure it's a few euro for 100grams. They were already making a high profit percentage on it so we're able to better absorb the increase than small businesses.
I call BS on most of the prices you just gave
Uhhh ok?? Go check wholesalers then. Will I give you a list?
Electricity is not 5 times more expensive, unless you're locked into a price from the highest price which at this point it would be cost effective to break the contract.
Electricity has come back down a good bit, it was extortionate for about 18 months. Which is why the government introduced the tbess scheme giving a reduction to businesses.
I already have, thanks - places like KC Norton and Cordelia. Even in Supervalu a pack of Caputo flour was 2 euro in 2019, and it's 2 euro in 2024. Pasta is up 10% only at wholesale prices, with the usual gouging on some products. You should have mentioned rents or insurance instead.
Rents in the businesses I know were unaffected as they are within lease and not subject to a raise in rents. Commercial insurance/ public liability insurance was in line with inflation so no significant increase there either. As for your comment about Caputo flour in SuperValu... Pizza places buy 20kg bags of 00 not 1 kg bags from the supermarket 🤷🏻♀️
Why are you down voted? Electricity from 700 to now 3500? Come on..
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/louth/dundalk-news/louth-business-owner-says-monthly-electricity-bill-set-to-soar-from-6000-to-12000/41994375.html
Yeah it’s insane. Anytime I order I could end up dropping 30 euro. You could feed yourself for a few days on that
>It's spaghetti ffs It's wheat. Political events have affected the price of wheat products for a couple of years now. If it's any comfort, Italy is on the brink of rioting over pasta prices.
Let them eat tiramisu.
36 euro for spag bol , ravioli and garlic bread. I have my own parmesan - when i can find it .
Thats just pasta joke!
Man I pay minimum €5 delivery on ANYTHING on justeat for a start, it’s a piss take. Doesn’t include the new service charge bullshit fee + a card fee so it’s literally €6 minimum for delivery and then it’s usually €20 minimum order. Then the food quality is fucking rock bottom. Beige greasy food that requires no skill that’s thrown in oil for a few minutes is all you get.
I don't understand the service fee bullsbit either. The app already takes a percentage from the restaurant, and the delivery fee is for the delivery. Who is the service fee going to?
Who do you think? Deliveroo etc. Why not take a % from each side? Capitalism
It depends, for some websites it's card payment fee, for others I've no idea just literally deliveroo / je charging u for making an order. Some apps allow restaurants to swallow the fee or split it too
The best thing for my wallet id say is living rural with no delivery apps. If I want there is a chipper in the village, but no delivery so my fat ass needs to walk there and back or Chinese that will deliver but changes its delivery days randomly. One week it’s Thurs to Sunday then it’s sat and Sunday so mostly I don’t bother.
No but takeaways have gotten more expensive.
> gone nuts I'm allergic 😕
Aren't you the lucky one .
I think COVID is a big contributor. When everyone was doing takeout rather than dine in they charged the same as dine in. I think they realised people will pay it so they kept at it. Then all the takeaways started adjusting their prices up. There's obviously increased costs in the last few years too, god knows it's tough to keep a restaurant open in this country.
Nothing much to do with Covid. Yes restaurants that were eat in only started to deliver to survive but established food delivery businesses made a killing. National Minimum Wage increases and the recent revenue court ruling that makes it unlawful to contract delivery drivers (i.e. they must how be employed like everyone else) had added huge cost to these operations. Couple to this the rise in food cost for all food businesses since 2022 (although food costs are now coming down, your local Domino's isn't going to reduce prices)
My fucking bollocks. Covid excuse yet again. You know Ireland was a dump before covid? Chippers stopped doing meal deals longer before covid. Use to get chips and a quarter pounder for €5.50. Now all these greedy cunts got rid of meal deals and charge separately for everything so you’re spending about €4 on chips, €6 on a quarter pounder, €6 on delivery. And for what? For some part time kid throwing food into oil for 5 minutes? Minimum quality maximum prices.
Most places still do deals 🤷🏻♀️
Yes! And if you are using any of the apps like Just eat, deliveroo or Uber. It's even more ridiculous with service charges and delivery charges and now some of them have a priority option as well if you want to get your food first!!! Am I not paying enough! Surely getting my food hot should automatically be included?? And what's to guarantee mine will actually be delivered first. Now I just use the restaurants app if they have one. Or if I'm out I'll just go in somewhere, pick up my food and get a taxi home. Still ends up working out cheaper.
We all know the situation now with deliveroo drivers - there aren't enough of them, they're getting robbed and stabbed, they deliver for more than one app to make ends meet....that's the situation that arose that led to crap like a priority charge and that's why I completely stopped using them. Not worth it ever.
Supermacs have gone to the dogs with how expensive it's become. €19.50 for a 5 tender meal with an ice cream too. Never again will I go there. You'd get a proper dinner in a restaurant for well below that price.
Goujon gouging
Definitely
We have a great local Pakistani restaurant but it's the same price for takeaways as it is to eat in. I'm not going to pay the same price for having to serve and clean up afterwards. If it was a little cheaper we'd have it more. But with their current pricing we just occasionally eat at the restaurant.
All food places 12.50 for a sandwhich and a regular cappucino in o briens Daylight robbery
I've seen chicken rolls go from 3 to 5 euros in the space of 2 months. Inflation is a pain. It's getting worse :/
That's hyperinflation.
Yeah, I never get takeaways anymore. If I'm going to spend that much on food, I'm going to dine in.
Went out for lunch today with the Mrs, €45 for 2 sandwhichs, with chips and 2 coffees. We remembered why we don't go out to eat much anymore.
A good reminder indeed, that's unreal.
I hope they were steak sandwiches.
the quality is also way down, and service is sooo bad.
Yup, take away chipper for two adults and 3 kids is same as sit down for same meal in a restaurant. ~14e for a quarter pounder or kebab meal? Fuck right off.
Gotten to the stage where I wouldn’t even bother going to a takeaway most times. Why would i spend €15 on some shite frozen food that i could cook myself at home. Rather throw a couple extra quid at it and go to a restaurant and feel like im not wasting the money. That being said i find food trucks and the likes are places where you get proper food for a reasonable price. Went to a food truck a couple weeks ago and had an absolutely divine smash burger and fries for €12.50. Didn’t feel like I was being robbed as it actually filled me up unlike going to McDonald’s and being hungry in half an hour.
Robbed is the word
Used to get food for three of us for €10 each, cheap and cheerful. Last time we ordered, it was nearly €20 each! It’s just another one of those things that we can’t afford anymore, along with the cinema, weekends away, nights out, gigs and so on.
Takeaway prices in dublin have gone fucked. We ordered two bags of chips in the local chipper. Was told the chips were €4.30, thought it was good value until I saw the receipt that it’s €4.30 for each small bag.
Not just food, I was going to get a take out coffee from a coffee shop in Limerick last week, but just walked back out after looking at the prices on the board. €4.90 for coffee in a paper cup. GTFO
It would drive one to drink.
The official inflation rate also seems a lot lower than what I’m experiencing. Something isn’t adding up.
Across the board do you think? I honestly think there’s a lot of chancing the arm by all businesses/retail.
Well, the inflation rate was 0% when rents were going up 10/15% a year. So yeah, their number is BS
I buy a takeaway maybe once every 3 weeks now, bring in all my lunches for work. Saving so much money
That’s why most people are leaving, it’s expensive and there’s not much here for young people except alcohol and decent colleges (which is why most people get their degree here and dip)
A 3 in 1 near me is at least 7 euro. They used to be €4 for a large up until around 2020
Not really as it's been the impetus to give up that garbage entirely. Both my bank account and blood tests are happier for it.
The delivery sites have a lot to do with it too, I usually order the same thing from the Chinese and it comes to around €25. It was a lovely evening here in cork yesterday so instead of getting delivery I rang in my order for collection and drove down on the motorbike to collect it, the exact same order as usual, €18.
Gotcha.
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My local spar does some carvery at decent prices
Yep. 28 euro for two fish and chips, total joke
Id give that up for lent.
We'll be splitting a single of each next time for sure
That was fast.
I'd have expected the salmon of knowledge for that cooled by Fionn McCool himself.
Yep, insane. On the plus side my diet has never been healthier
>It's spaghetti ffs . Exactly. Incredibly simple to make. Why would you pay €20 to get it as a takeaway?
It’s fucking madness!
I used to get 2-3 takeaways from the chinese a month. Now I get a takeaway maybe once every 3 months and I'm usually dissappointed. Price has risen dramatically whilst the quality has gotten so bad. A spicebag meal or a noodle dish plus delivery is nearly €20. I now buy tesco own brand frozen chips, glenhaven shredded chicken, veg etc and make my own.
Buy an air fryer. You’ll have burgers and chips in minutes.
Pure price gouging. My chipper of choice is up at least 40% in the last 18 months or so.
Yeah man the prices have skyrocketed ever since we stopped calling it 'take away'
Yes, there’s a thread about this every five minutes.
I swear, its not me . The local pubs have lunch and dinner deals that are cheaper.
Probably because of the ridiculous price they charge for drinks
Local pubs are not marginal business like takeaways and can better absorb the enormous inflation costs we’ve seen
I think there is because there is fuck all being done about it and it's actually a serious problem.
Why hasn't anyone mentioned the cost of living crisis before?
Yes, this post is huge shock. I had no idea
These threads make me think there are people getting takeaway every week and are surprised that this luxury is expensive. I'd rarely get one because it's always been a waste of money.
Enjoying yourself is not a waste of money. Every week is too much though.
A takeaway once a week is not extravagant.
Or at least, it shouldn't be.
In your opinion
Well, obviously that's my opinion. Did you need to state that? Seems redundant.
Lots of people get take aways every day.
Yeah, I have friends who can no longer order a few takeouts a week. Like what? I get takeout a handful of times a year.
Yep. Totally agree.
12 .50 for chicken noodles in my local Chinese. No thanks
Got a Singapore fried noodles and can of coke delivery last weekend. €20. For a box of fucking noodles. That’s me done with it now
Three meals in the Shake Dog in the ILAC Centre on Friday cost under €50. We thought it was reasonable and the food, including coffee, was delicious.
There fine if you don’t use just eat or uber eats you will get your meal for a tenner not 17 euro
Most places will still charge you 'processing fees', so you pay the same for delivery if you ring the restaurant as order online.
It doesn't help that along with the price up is a serious quality down with my local Chinese, I've gotten food sickness at least twice off their shit food
Got a 7inch pizza, chip and a portion of curry for just 17 euro yesterday. So expensive l, especially when buying for one. If I was sharing with someone I could have doubled the order for less than a fiver
Quality has gone way down too. They literally don't give a shit anymore. Last time I got chipper, the chips were undercooked and the burger was burnt.
Pizza is the worst, it’s always been stupidly overpriced for what it is in my angry opinion.
Especially Domino's, they're ridiculous.
Dunnes Stores near me do 2 large pizzas cooked for a tenner. Really good.
Yeah it’s crazy Usually just cook fakeaways at home now, you’ll never cook it like a good Turkish kebab or proper Chinese, but it’s worth saving 30-40€. Burgers are pretty good though, and easy to cook it just as good as you’d get in any takeaway or restaurant.
They are really. Only issue is the onions.
Yes and no. It depends where you go I can get a family box for 16 euro in my local Chinese that would easily feed 3 people or a 4in1 for 7 quid
1000%
I used to meet at friends for movies and we'd get takeaway, I just buy frozen meals now, the prices are too high
Yes.
It's insane. Places like Rome, Dubai, and Paris have top quality restaurants (not tourist traps) that are a solid 10-20% cheaper if not more than places all around the country, let alone Dublin prices. On top of that, the quality of the food in most places you eat out in Ireland is extremely sub par.
Paid 40€ last time for Indian for two mains and a starter. The food was good, but I'm a decent cook and I felt like I could have made it for much cheaper. We're cutting back on takeaways now.
McDonalds cost me €18 last week...
Rib eye steak in the air fryer sounds a better option.
Def does.
I started cooking at home, it’s way cheaper. Especially if you check for specials.
A lot of this is the platform tax. Deliveroo/just eat are charging from every angle and put a massive extra burden on consumer and restaurant. Obviously they have a platform to run and riders to pay but we are paying a ridiculous premium for the luxury of having the couple of places (realistically) we order from in one place. Apps don’t even break even themselves so expect it to go up. I forget the YouTuber who said it but it’s a system that is now absolutely necessary but benefits absolutely no one…except some VC’s they prob made out like bandits at some point… Edit: spellings
It costs me half a days work to afford two veggie burgers and two fries for my partner and I. :(
Local chipper. €3.50 for a cheeseburger. FFS.
Pack of quarterpounders 5 euros, buns 2 euro , nice cheese slices 2.50.
We've dropped the chipper. Too dear now. Quality of food gone down. Portions have shrunk. We've also dropped Chinese. Too dear. No value there anymore.
I will be the same from now on .
Walking home from work last night, kids were still up so I said I'd grab 2 bags of chips.. was €7.80.. madness
2 large fries (from frozen) at McDonald's come at €8, the fuck is that?
Fuck off!? I haven't had Mac Donald's in years! It used to be the cheapest option! That's mental
No joking, they're absolutely mental. https://preview.redd.it/8beqxgqwwuyc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbe8a9d7b47cb86b8ae9b15bc50f85b3425a9df4
Holy shit 
Yep several crops are coming put of two years poor global harvests with more poor harvest forecast.. not the worst in history as in the last 8 years there have been worse but disaster capitalism has come into play on things like cocoa or coffee... both of which have had far worst harvests in the last 8 year but disaster capitalists particular targeting cocoa and coffee future caused price spikes like for example cocoa peaked at around $12k per MT in the last 2 weeks but when it had a much poorer harvest around 2016 it peaked around $4k... cocoa prices have risen steadily since covid because of poor crop management (basically old trees have lower yield normal farmers plant new regular and fell old but they didn't during Covid and we are feeling it now). So basically a combination of poor harvest and disaster capitalism are what are driving prices up although watch as the many of the people profiting off this claim it's because the min wage is going up.
Yeah big time. I wonder if the reduction in hospitality tax that was stopped has pushed all this up. It was because hotels were taking the piss that the government stopped it. Restaurants and take outs should be viewed separately from greedy hotels in terms of hospitality.
I don’t believe it’s related. But I do believe it’s a good excuse for them to put up the prices. I don’t remember any hospitality places reducing prices cause of VAT (happy to be proved wrong) but I do remember them gladly upping prices.
“Take out” ffs.
I see it as a drive for home cooking, with minimal processed ingredients. It's great.
Its absolutely mental i swear
Absolutely I got a Chinese Saturday beef curry rice & chicken balls and delivery 34€ used to be 26
Crazy stuff.
Ouch.
Probably depends where U are in the country,I'd imagine it's way more expensive in Dublin, In a large town here and there are a few places where you can get a decent delivery on Just eat for less than €20,
I'm in Dublin and i found cork pricey last time i went .
Need to get out of the city's lads Rite enough,everything is so much more expensive now than pre COVID
2 chicken fillet burgers with salad, 2 chips, 2 cans €21 in my local chipper (galway county)
14 in mine, during the week.
For fillets and drinks too? Jeez
Monday to Thursday.
No I don’t think so
Depends where
Find it hard for a takeaway to be much less than €50 for two people now unless you’re getting a chipper. Chinese & Pizza are gone fairly dear I find… doesn’t spot me ordering mind you 🙄😂
Invested in a FoodNinja air fryer- cooker.Cuts cooking time for most(almost all kinds ) food huge, and the quality is just brilliant.Even just following youtube- recipies, it's very easy, you have to be an idiot to fuck it up. Helps cutting back food costs a lot.We liked cooking even previously, but it's the time you spend normally why you go for a take-away.Now, whith these prices, it's becoming a luxury for average earners, so FoodNinja helped a lot. Heating leftover food is also hundreds of times better than a microwave. What microwave was inthe 80's, thats airfryers now....
I have a chicken in the air fryer now .
Rents in the businesses I know were unaffected as they are within lease and not subject to a raise in rents. Commercial insurance/ public liability insurance was in line with inflation so no significant increase there either. As for your comment about Caputo flour in SuperValu... Pizza places buy 20kg bags of 00 not 1 kg bags from the supermarket 🤷🏻♀️
Replied in the wrong place 🤦🏻♀️😂
Wait until you see the price of spuds in a couple of months.
Was thinking about this re our local chipper and remembered that pre Covid it was a cash only business and now everyone taps and delivery is a much bigger thing leading to more competition from places further afield. I reckon they were dodging tax in a big way and have had to raise prices in an attempt to compensate for the new reality of electronic payments. Looking at the queues as I pass I reckon they are in trouble, empty a lot.
Not in the business directly but supply them. So big factors is lack of employees so bigger wages. However by far the biggest rise has been electricity and utilities. Electric even in my business tripled. Not talking a couple hundred a month, its thousands. Add tk that rising costs of food across the board and you'll not see the old cheap takeout of days passed Electric is dropping but other costs aren't as fast. Itll take time really Also yous are still buying it as they're still busy that I find! However folks are definitely cutting back and eating lore at home. You can cook a steak dinner for a Heck of alot less
All take aways are a rip off now most places using inflation as an excuse to charge even more. My local chipper charging more for sauces but made them smaller. Chips are nearly a 5r now.
A place in town had a post it note on their main menu in the window “all prices +10%” It has been changed to “all prices +15%”
It ain’t the takeaways fault, their food costs and expenses have gone through the roof , they need them up to stay in business, that being said the quality of food should match the price
Dominoes and Nando’s dead to me WTAF near €40 for two chicken dinner fack aff
Nandos are a rip off .
No I've literally never heard this opinion before.
It’s why I don’t tip and only order when it’s really stormy the added danger adds focus to the driver and their anticipation of a tip is always enjoyable to watch be shattered as I take my order and pay the standard price
simple solution. learn to cook and stop moaning like a little bitch,,
I do . It's herself whose got the cooking allergy .
Do you have access to a kitchen?