File photo Image: Shutterstock/Mikhail_Kayl File photo Image: Shutterstock/Mikhail_Kayl MANY BUSINESSES ARE struggling or have been forced to close due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
An adviser to the Central Bank has said that supplementary charges – such as €10 on the cost of a meal or €1 on a pint – could help restaurants and pubs post-crisis. Economist Alan Ahearne told the Irish Examiner it will take “a long time” for the tourism sector to recover after the pandemic and that businesses may need extra support to stay open.Poll Results:
Definitely no, we will all have to chip in as tax payers to pay the pandemic emergency payments now. I'm sure everyone will end up paying higher tax on something government is going to give us a bill for that. It's not free. and adding a separate payment like that is a joke.
No it's expensive already
Does this mean that I'll have to pay €14.99 for a happy meal?
Yes without hesitation.
No I wouldn’t
We'll be all broke by then. Might not be able to afford Supermac's.
They have been overcharging for years so the idea of paying them these prices is a joke. The smell of home cooking now is so new! So people may forget about overspending in restaurants if / when Virus is arrested
No
Absolutely
Sure I would but I would go out less as it would be more expensive 😏😏
Eh no is the short answer, I would be up for tipping an extra tenner if I knew it was going straight to the staff. I have worked as a chef in a lot of different places and staff are criminally underpaid, some places take a cut of the tips. I’m looking at you The Ivy but plenty do
No ! I don’t think adding €10 for a meal is going to draw in the crowds , considering how many of us are going to be struggling to get back on our feet!!!
Would this be €10 per head? If it is it would certainly put families off, it would add an extra €60 to our bill. I doubt I'd be eating out too often if at all if that was the case.
No
Yes, if we want business to recover, and tax,s paid. €10 extra is not outrageous in these circumstances.
Don't think everyone will be in a rush to sit in crowded restaurant or pub too soon
How about all the restrauants who shafted small independent suppliers and refused to pay their bills cough up what they owe first, just remember the wheel always turns!
Let them go bust , more fun drinking at home these days anyway. Cheaper too ☺️🍻
No
Ahhh god no!!!!!!!
What sort of economist thinks that higher prices will not lead to falling demand? After this I do intend to go out more to my favourite cafes and restaurants for a while to give them a boost, but if prices go up I will have to scale back.
I would if I was back at work full time and back to full wages. We'll all have to help out after this.
What about the rest of us small businesses, they are not the only ones having it hard, besides the only publicans I know are millionaires...
Of course , sure we're all going to get a pay rise to meet the increase in the cost of living .
Nope.
Nope
If this was to happen the price would never reduce, the €10 extra would become the normal price. Government/Banks/Landlords need to protect the businesses. Outside of mortgage, rent, rates the other overheads have been wiped out.
Many restaurants charge ridiculous prices as is, why should they be given extra? Imagine paying between €50 and €200 for a meal that cost a small fraction of the price to make and then having thejournal ask if you'd pay more! 😂 The answer is no!
If there was an option to pay and a sliding scale. But yeah! I wouldn’t mind. As long as it was for a limited time.
injtokyo Why do people not think about the shops also.
No
Not a hope.
Too many restaurants. If foreigners went home & we stopped making Ireland walk the worldwide economic tightrope propping up elites we'd have the true number required in Eire & less owners driving flashy cars driving by poor who's dining table is the pavement. Never support greed
Ask the landlords to reduce the rent
Ask bertie ahern for it seeing as he f’ked the country up the arsehole before 😄😄😄😄
Only if it was for staff other than that not a god dam hope
A sure way to ensure people holiday in Spain or Portugal
It would very much depend on the meal. If the expected bill was to top €100 then possibly but as ours rarely does, then no!
Gov can reduce VAT instead
No.
Yes
Why should we
If there are rent cuts then sure, as that's where most of my wages go. I would spend more in the local economy if my living expenses were reduced.
No. Ireland is already ridiculously expensive for dining out. If eating out were more reasonably priced people might eat out more frequently & those who currently cannot afford to might start doing so.
Will insurance companies and car tax be refunded or frozen since we can't use our cars in weeks or months
How could we. Everything in this country so expensive as is.
An end to usury would make things much easier.
realistically, no. Better to get more money moving around than adding costs...
Yes
I doubt if most people will have the money for going out after this crisis. The extra 10 euro will only make it an easy decision to not eat out..
No, but I would go out more often and support them.
not viable, most couldn't afford it, I think we need government to charge rent for all commercially exploited land seas and resources and pay dividend to all citizens as individual owners and shareholders of the country who elect its governing body, that's honest Capitalism!
No, most of them are to dear anyway, everybody has less money in there pockets anyway .
Only if it goes directly to low paid staff and not to profit owners who may try to cut their wages to save themselves
For god sick fu.k no!
Why not start at reducing the rates the pubs and restaurants have to pay every month also reducing tax's on theses places would help they could then be able to have a cash reserve that could help in these hard times
After this, we will all pay dearly......just to survive, we are NOT all in this together, if we were, all utility bills would be frozen, all insurance bills would be frozen, fter this, eating out will be a luxury, so that would be a big, NO !!!!
But no tip
For a limited period.. Yes
No
Fuck no!! But I will give€10 to a homeless person.
This was the dinger of an idea by an economist to help pubs when this is all over........why unemployment will be over 10% at a minimum 🤦♂️
No.
No. We will not be in the financial position to do so.
Yes why not there such hard workers.
No way, they had it too good all along...👎
No
Absolutely not
Yes
The problem with business applying extra costs on goods and services is greed inevitably kicks in and they rarely remove the extra costing
Hardly.
We bailed out banks after the financial crash. Now we have to bail out all other buisiness's after this crisis? Is it not the turn of the financial sector to bail someone out?
If by ‘Supporting Restaurants’ you actually mean killing off the restaurant industry in Ireland, then, no, I would probably not be for that. Restaurants are nice, they can be expensive, but are still nice. A €10 surcharge and I’d never visit a restaurant in Ireland again.
Costs were high before the lockdown compared to rest of Europe. They need to come down not up.
Maybe but not for a long time and there was a Vaccine . I just wouldn't be complacent enough to go back to normal
I would for some but not all....
The real issue is that this adviser is on a substantial state salary to churn out this crap.
No
No
They can piss off. I would rather give it to charity. Food banks need it,& were here before COVIDー19
How about they reduce the prices. That way more people will afford to go and enjoy a pint and a meal. Cheaper prices= more customers= more profit
No. They already charge too much. The government should support them
That's a silly question. We are all gonna come out of this with less money in our pockets. So adding prices to good and services is ridiculous. It should be the total opposite. Get people out! Get people buying! NOT Burden them!!
Not a hope!
A tenner is a bit steep, c'mon that's nearly an 80-100% mark up on most items.
Restaurants and pubs are done
No
Food tax
No, would a pub let ye off a ten for two pints, would a restaurant? Don think so.
Do restaurants support the regular person in normal times
And the stupid question of the day goes to....
This advisor is also suggesting adding a euro to the price of a pint. Maybe rather than asking the public to take a hit and cover any losses, perhaps the govt should consider reducing excise duties and leave the hard suffering customer alone?
Why not cook your own food
Did restaurants think of their staff and their staff's families, mortgages etc and as a result pay their staff's salaries during the pandemic? Did restaurant owners offer cut price meals to the unemployed during the crash? If either answer is yes then yes I would pay €10 extra.
No, I'm living off rice and potatoes
Nope
No
Unfortunately no, the Dominoes effect of covid19 has impacted everybody's in all ways, specially economically. However inflation is around the corner while the economy still plunging, it's just a matter of time. Sit and watch, because we will be paying 'extra' for everything.
The day our politicians take a pay cut. Funny how it’s always the people that are asked to carry the can.
Eh......NO.
Basically to support profits and capitalism again? That tener will go to the top and not the lower paid workers. Eating out is expensive as it is.
How about if a restaurant / bar / family run Irish hotel can show a potential for survival and can show that the accumulation of loans and loses on their books then a revenue break that would be double the time they were closed would be viable and worth it.
No
Not a chance in hell, everyone is struggling. It's unrealistic, no one could afford that.
Is this guy for deal? All are suffering losses. Tough it out like everyone else. They were always over expensive already. NO!
Yes
Thought it’d be cheaper 🤦🏽♂️
How about the government reduce our Car tax Vat on cars Property tax etc Tax on fuel The we can spend more!
Nope!
Think it will be a long time before I step foot in a restaurant or pub.. ask again when the vaccine is out a while
No.. they already had rip off prices .
Nah....but I will visit more regularly
So after months of people not being able to go to pubs and restaurants, when they eventually do open, this clown wants people to pay an additional supplement? You would think they would be grateful for the business.
Nope.
Irelandchas always been super expensive to eat out compared to other countries, so fuck no.
The loss that restaurant etc will be rent utility bills etc. Not stock or the cost of employees. So no but I will still go to them but not at an extra cost.
No.
Never ever.
No...after the pandemic,everyone should be able to feed four for €10.
People tend to vote with wallets.