Irish people should consider why restaurant prices are high, according to a restaurateur. “We profit-shame food establishments, but we don’t profit-shame companies that make smartphones.'
he doesn’t understand why Irish people are “obsessed” with food prices specifically.“[But] we all have smartphones, we spend crazy amounts on designer stuff like sunglasses which are marked up about 1,000%.”
“The profit on that is astronomical and the profit on food is so little, but sometimes I wonder why we are obsessed.”Energy and wages Mr McMahon said people should stop thinking about paying “X amount for a coffee, X for a chicken sandwich” and consider why food costs a certain amount.He said energy and wage prices have increased since COVID, and “the only way to get money is to raise the price of food”.“We profit-shame food establishments, but we don’t profit-shame companies that make smartphones,” he said. “We should ask why it’s ‘not good’ to make a profit on food and why we have that attitude.
“It's not as simple as ‘food should be cheap’, because if we go down that road, and we end up with mass produced foods that I don't think it's very good for us.” He said too many people think the price of food in restaurants should match the price of ingredients in supermarkets.Mr McMahon said Irish people should consider the prices in restaurants abroad, such as Copenhagen, where restaurants are “double the price”.
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