Sunday, March 23, 2025

Cafe at Beaumont Hospital charges €4.25 for a cappuccino

People often complain about the parking fees that hospitals charge. And everything about it looks and sounds mean. It’s catching people at a vulnerable time. On the other hand it helps finance the hospital. Are parking fees at hospitals cheaper than the going rate?

But that a public hospital, indeed, any hospital charge over the going-rate for a cup of coffee looks, sounds and is obscene. 

A cappuccino in Beaumont Hospital costs €4.25. It must be the most expensive cappuccino in Dublin City.

It’s extortion, it’s an abuse, and what a way to treat patients and visitors. Patients, who are able, like to be brought down to the cafe with their visitors.

Management at Beaumont Hospital should immediately talk to the franchisee and see to it that patients and visitors are not being fleeced. Overcharging vulnerable people is invidious. Please stop this abuse now.

 

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