Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

I was charged 9TL for a 0.75 ltr of water in carpenters

If you were at home - YES! If you were in the Savoy - NO! Now, lets do the expat thing. Where were you? Did you complain???? Were you satisfied with the cost???

What is it you are trying to find out or complain about or say?

What always upsets me is my wife's cola is nearly as expensive as my Carlsberg, I keep trying to get her to drink Carlsberg instead ..Lol

Lurcher wrote:I was charged a whopping 6tl for a very small lime and soda and 12 TL for a small bottle of Corona last night. Is this excessive ?

Corona is between 10TL and 12TL in bars...

It's their business and their right to set the prices if you don't like it drink somewhere else and as for soft drinks they have always been expensive even in the uk. I can never understand complaints about prices ask when you arrive for a price list if you don't like the prices go elsewhere. Or go to lemur and drink at home.where you pay for electric heating rent and the alcohol.

Not a know it all Lurcher but having been in the leisure trade for 35 years know a little about overheads. You decide your price and sell. You have to publish your prices and assess your overheads. Some of these bars pay ridiculous rents so it's not like for like. Look at the price and decide if you want to pay it. As you rightly said you will not return. But I find so many people drink all day at home then come out for the last hour and want to stay till 2 am. Most of the experts in how to run a pub are on the other side of the bar to the working side.oh and incidentally you did ask for advice if you were paying too much.

terry2366 wrote:Not a know it all Lurcher but having been in the leisure trade for 35 years know a little about overheads. You decide your price and sell. You have to publish your prices and assess your overheads. Some of these bars pay ridiculous rents so it's not like for like. Look at the price and decide if you want to pay it. As you rightly said you will not return. But I find so many people drink all day at home then come out for the last hour and want to stay till 2 am. Most of the experts in how to run a pub are on the other side of the bar to the working side.oh and incidentally you did ask for advice if you were paying too much.

spot on no one ever thinks about the following
staff wages, work permits for the staff, business permits and licenses, tax, electric, heating in winter,rent plus the rising purchase costs of the items to sell

You get overheads in shops as well. Their mark up is nothing like some of the bars. I tend to find popular bars have reasonable prices, and some have happy hours. It's a difficult business to be in here and it should be a case of simple economics, supply and demand, but often, if some are not making enough money, they put the prices up, douh!!