A couple of friends of mine from Adrassan which is about 4 hours drive on the coast road toward Antalya, came for a couple of days visit this Thursday.
When I commented on an expensive 9TL beer. He said that Calis is the cheapest place for food and beer that he has been to.
He also said that the majority of food in our restaurants here put other places (in the same price bracket) to shame.
When I visited them, we went into Kemer and had fish and chips in one place at 18TL, the portions were small and the quality was pathetic. Beer was 13TL.
We stopped at one place and the guy said beer was 12TL, I refused to pay saying it was between 7 to 8TL in Fethiye, he said that we could pay 8TL (the place was empty at 1400hrs), that was early last year. My friends still go to the same place and still pay 8TL.
Being ex retail myself I know all about costing's, mark-up's, taxes and running costs and fully understand and have sympathy with the people in the trade here. They have a short time to make their money and if the food is good, I am more than willing to pay their prices.
If the food is bad or they are making big mistakes like lettuce leaves under steak and kidney pie,( this actually happened to me in Calis) then I tell them.
If the food is good I also tell them.
The tax on beer keeps going up and they cannot keep absorbing that tax, they have to pass it on to the customers
Do not forget, the cost of living goes up here as well as UK, and the restaurant owners have to get that extra cash from somewhere, the gov't isn't going to step in and give them money.
I apologise for any ramblings or deviation of topic, but old age and disappearing of brain cells says I am allowed.
