Restaurants introduce new value menu

RESTAURANT owners last night hit back at reports of customers being ripped off as they launched a value menu scheme.

Irish Restaurants' Association of Ireland president Aidan MacManus said restaurant owners have been served up unfair publicity in recent weeks.

Mr MacManus, who runs the high-profile King Sitric specialist fish restaurant in Howth, Co Dublin, said: "There are hundreds of thousands of people eating out every day here in Ireland but all we hear about is the very small minority who have had a recent bad experience.