O'Briens Sandwich Bar

moneygrower said:
The guy who set up O'Briens can't think of his name, did a lecture in the Ilac on starting your own business. He's a very honest entertaining guy and he explained how basically he started making money when he tarted up the sandwiches e.g. thicker bread, and charging much more. There was no market for budget coffee and cheap sandwiches. Incidentially he does alot for charity. Brody Sweeny is his name
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He's also a (wannabe) politician. So not all good, eh?
 
Having seen what he's done for the Christina Noble foundation's properties in Vietnam I can only admire Brody Sweeney. Her HCM base has the facilities any school or hospital in Ireland can only dream of!
 
gravitygirl said:
Carpedeum, there is usually the same caffeine / hit in an americano as a latte/cappucino - they are just topped up with milk / froth rather than water :)
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Gravitygirl, I always feel that by by adding hot water to the espresso it is undiluted and goes quicker to my smaller male brain. Deep down being a very shallow person, I was always a sucker for a placebo!:)
 
I didn't say it had to be a pint of an alcoholic drink Happy Girl :D

Aw carpedeum, I didn't mean to stir up quite so much seld-deprecation! Forgive me :)
 
So presumably you complained and asked them to take the food back and not charge you for something that was inedible? If not - why not?
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On this occassion no, I did not complain, as I usually would, and the reason why not is as follows:

Our family had a horrible Christmas as my Dad collapsed with a heart attack on the Friday night/Saturday morning before Christmas. Had an operation on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day was spent in Tallaght hospital, as was St. Stephen's Day and the day after that. And so on. Because my niece, who is five, or my sister had not much of a Christmas either, we decided to bring the child to the play on the Friday(as much for ourselves to get a break from the stress,as the child) and hence we ended up in Thunder Road Cafe.

The food was not nice(to say the least) and expensive. However, on this occassion, because anyone(especially me) could not cope with anymore stress/hassle/griping/moaning just at that particular point in time, so we just made a decision to pay(not to leave a tip) and never return.


By pointing this out on AAM, I was telling other people to beware. So they would not get caught. Thats all.
 
Indeed Clubman, though while some places display their prices, some are not as clearly/obviously displayed as others. In this case, I was pointing out that they do tend to make it easy enough to calculate the price of your mean before deciding to buy it.
 
Just FYI, the cafe in Ranalagh where we had breakfast this morning had a note on the bottom of the menu along the lines of "No changes/substitutions allowed to menu - under the Retail Prices Order, we can only serve that which we have displayed prices for".

Does the legislation really stop a restaurant from being flexible and allowing substitutions to the menu?
 
Can't see that the law explicitly precludes substitutions but maybe a very anal reading of it would lead one to such a conclusion? Seems odd to me to rule out substitutions mutually agreed with or explicitly requested by the consumer. I don't recall seeing such a notice on any other price display in the past. Maybe it makes their life easier or something and they decided to cite the law so people would not hassle them?
 
Perhaps. Perhaps they feel it's good value or a reasonable price. Until they make their point it's impossible to second guess their intentions.
 
I don't know why everyone is jumping on ClubMan's back. The prices are always clearly displayed in O' Briens so it should have been no surprise when you got the final bill. If you wanted a cheap snack, you should have just taken the kids to McDonald's. A hamburger, fries and soft drink for €3.

Total bill for four people, €12.
 
My apologies for not stating the fact that I felt that this was a very expensive burger (as I had expected that it would for the price €7.50 per burger have included fries)

Bedlam
 
Bedlam said:
My apologies for not stating the fact that I felt that this was a very expensive burger
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So why did you purchase it when the prices were presumably on display for you to see before making a purchase?
(as I had expected that it would for the price €7.50 per burger have included fries)
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Why would you assume that when most (all?) burger joints charge separately for each item (burger, chips, drink, sometimes even condiments etc.) and the price list presumably said burger = €x, chips = €y etc.

ubiquitous said:
Really? Not since the 1980s...
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Nope - Raskolnikov is correct:

eurosaver hamburger meal (burger, fries, drink) €3
 
ClubMan said:
Perhaps. Perhaps they feel it's good value or a reasonable price. Until they make their point it's impossible to second guess their intentions.
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But how do you know its value for money before you in, sit down, order the food and try it.

Just because a price is stated doesn't show value for money. Seeing and trying it does.

Only afterwards can you think it was a rip off or good value. Just to say every time....the price was there......isn't always right to say.

Just my thoughts.
 
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