The staff should be paid a good rate. The staff should be properly paid because the prices people pay are very high. I have heard capitalists say that a market finds its own level, if that is true then something has to happen. Exploiting the workforce in order to squeeze a marginal profit whilst alienating customers seems to be a poor version of capitalism…unless you have a monopoly or a captive market.
It finds it`s level when people stop buying. I amazed when I see how many young people out on Thursday night through to Saturday night here in Peckham, and drink and food are not cheap in the majority of places, and always say to my friends no sign of inflation here. We are probably looking at mass unemployment again unfortunately before things change, back to the days of the eighties when we had 15% unemployment.
The staff should be paid a good rate. The staff should be properly paid because the prices people pay are very high. I have heard capitalists say that a market finds its own level, if that is true then something has to happen. Exploiting the workforce in order to squeeze a marginal profit whilst alienating customers seems to be a poor version of capitalism…unless you have a monopoly or a captive market.
I assume they are paid minimum wage or very marginally only a little better.
I doubt any government will materially change that rate.
In this case I think really the issue is training / familiarity and that can only be down to the third party outsourced provider.
Supply and demand will ultimately apply and mean custom is limited but practically I think it’s just another example of how poor a choice food and drink is inside football grounds and indeed any comparable venue. I make you right in your observation that chips from the local chip shop are better value.
Maybe I'm getting old, but eating out is now getting pricey. I went to a warehouse type bar in trendy Kelham Island in Sheffield on Friday night. We wanted a bite to eat and the burgers were £14, fries £7.50. Two of us were being cheap so went hungry but one mate gave in to his hunger. The burger was OK and better than a McDonald's one, but the fries were actually served in a mug, hence not the biggest portion I've ever seen. Also a non alcohol beer £4.50.
You've only just come to the conclusion?
Eating out for the past 18months to 2 years has been akin Rolex watch shopping!
I suppose this is a reflection of the price of food generally going up a lot in the last two years.
Korean chicken burger at the Sky bar Eltham yesterday. £15
Right, but your really paying for the views of Eltham’s world famous skyline!
I think that people in general are so used to being bent over, that there is now a society wide amnesia in regard to pricing for goods and services in general.
Particularly after all this "we are all in it together" force fed bullshit during and after the pandemic. I have no doubt future historians will write papers on how the whole population of the UK were right royally shafted by the big corporations and then some in the 2020's.
However I believe it truly started when the peanut seller at The Valley upped his prices to a Tanner a bag!
We've been wondering why they don't pre-pour beers for at least 10 years or more. Has there ever been an official answer?
I might be the problem. I ask for a fresh pint and not a pre-poured one. No way am I paying £7.40 for a flat pint!
£7.40!! Wow
It was £6.60 no ?
£7.40 in bartrams
I don’t think anywhere in the ground charges £7.40 a pint (of beer anyway!).
Sit in the North Lower. It's £7.40 for a Peroni or 2 pint glass for £14.40. Bargain!
Have to have a drink problem to part with money like that surely.
I parted with £7.40 for an East Stand open air pint of Peroni in a plastic glass given the glorious weather but that wasn't the biggest shock - that was my son's £2.80 bottle of water!
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We are probably looking at mass unemployment again unfortunately before things change, back to the days of the eighties when we had 15% unemployment.
That’s absolutely shocking.
Particularly after all this "we are all in it together" force fed bullshit during and after the pandemic. I have no doubt future historians will write papers on how the whole population of the UK were right royally shafted by the big corporations and then some in the 2020's.
However I believe it truly started when the peanut seller at The Valley upped his prices to a Tanner a bag!