When is a tuesday like a thursday?

Last night in Cava I really wondered where the recession had gone. Not that we are out of the water by any stretch of the imagination (one swallow does not make a summer nor does one Tapas fill you up), but in all fairest, last night we had people waiting (yes, I said waiting) for tables. If this continues, we might just be alright!

I mean it.

How can a restaurant as popular and successful as Cava be in problems?

Overheads, I tell you.

While rent, vat, wages, and electricity are the biggest users of cash coming in.

And while housing prices and stuff in supermarkets has fallen, very little in the restaurant trade has gone down in price.

So in a sense, there is no recession. Things are just as expensive as they were a year ago, and somethings had actually gone up, like wine.

Did you know I came across Sirloin steak in Tesco for €12.95 a kg. This is a scandal. The restaurant buys its meat from Collerans and its sirloin is about €16-17 euro a kilo. A good price, I assure you. But when Tesco (this big, useless non-Irish monster) comes to town and starts ridding farmers for all its milk and meat, then something has to be done.

I suggest to boycott Tesco, becasue if you do buy milk or meat there [or veg] (even if its Irish) you can be assure the farmer is getting fucked (pardon my English).

I could not say enough about this.

Bastards.

But anyway.

Back to last night.

It was great.

Really what its all about.

Food and drink flowing and customers enjoying all and if it keeps us as I said above we might just survive the winter and make it until next summer.

When is the summer the winter?

In Ireland, I suppose.

But look outisde.

It's septemeber.

And its sunny!

Jp