If it weren’t apparent from The Gang’s perpetual get-rich-quick schemes — and their perpetually empty bar — Paddy’s Pub is far from a profitable business. In fact, as one mathematically minded Redditor discovered, Paddy’s Pub is so beyond breaking even that it’s actively losing millions of dollars.
Always Sunny fan lil_santa headed to the show’s subreddit this week with an elaborate dive into The Gang’s finances, crunching the numbers to determine just how much money Paddy’s Pub has pissed away during the show’s first 16 seasons.
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Using a $230,000 annual “base loss” representing a “poorly run Philadelphia bar with minimal patrons” and taking into account the rare wild night (underage drinking is bad, but their money is still good, I guess), lil_santa found that adjusting for inflation, The Gang has managed to squander roughly $4,102,878 over the last two decades.
“It’s always been obvious their bar doesn’t make money, but while watching the other day I realized not only is this bar not making money — they have to be netting pretty substantial financial losses every year,” lil_santa wrote of their methodology. “So I did some napkin math and estimated they likely sustain an average net loss of around $230,000 per year based on cost factors like mortgage, utilities, expenses, inventory, etc. coupled with a general lack of patronage, mismanagement and frequent inventory use.”
The post quickly went viral on Reddit, prompting praise for lil_santa and inspiring questions about whether Frank’s ownership of Paddy’s Pub would impact these figures, and speculation on the true price of success for “The Worst Bar in Philadelphia.” “Frank would just use it as write-offs for his broader income, the losses on the business,” one fan wrote, arguing that the famously wealthy Wolf Cola overlord “would have filed to get every penny of PPP loans he could have gotten in 2020.”
Another, however, took a more 4D-chess approach, arguing that while Paddy’s endless failures may suck for The Gang, it’s more than worth it for the entertainment value. “I don’t think it would make for good TV if we were watching them successfully deal with a Friday or Saturday evening rush,” they added, noting that the show largely “revolves around weekdays where they wouldn’t have as many customers.”
Not to mention, the basement gambling ring. Maybe not $230,000, but that has to count for something, right?
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