Carling is pretty efficient though, most pubs operate a refill system straight from the urinals.
The absolute state of pubs these days
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Billionaire owner able to keep prices low and destroying local small businesses, not a great situation.
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I was paying between £2-3 for a pint Prague in December, mad prices over here.
A lot of it is the breweries pricing pubs out.
It's one of the biggest scandals in the UK.
They demand that X amount of customers come in per day and that the pub sells a certain amount too. If they don't then the prices go up. So they eventually price themselves out of business.
The landlords/ladies can be either staff who are moved around, or people who have invested in the pub. But sooner or later they realise the pricing model can't survive.
I've heard the same breweries are undercutting their own pubs by selling to the supermarkets.
General trends these days is that not as many people drink. Apparently 1 in 4 Gen Z'ers have drank a pint. The party culture seems to have gone.
Most of the pubs I drank in the 90's early 00's have gone.
One time I visited a pub at Rochdale football ground for an event there, and the price of a pint was quite high (can't remember the exact price). Then the week after I noticed the pub was shut. About a month later I was in Rochdale again at another pub and the the same landlord from the other place was at this other pub. He said pubs just can't survive because of the constant targets they are being forced to meet.
It's one of the biggest scandals in the UK.
They demand that X amount of customers come in per day and that the pub sells a certain amount too. If they don't then the prices go up. So they eventually price themselves out of business.
The landlords/ladies can be either staff who are moved around, or people who have invested in the pub. But sooner or later they realise the pricing model can't survive.
I've heard the same breweries are undercutting their own pubs by selling to the supermarkets.
General trends these days is that not as many people drink. Apparently 1 in 4 Gen Z'ers have drank a pint. The party culture seems to have gone.
Most of the pubs I drank in the 90's early 00's have gone.
One time I visited a pub at Rochdale football ground for an event there, and the price of a pint was quite high (can't remember the exact price). Then the week after I noticed the pub was shut. About a month later I was in Rochdale again at another pub and the the same landlord from the other place was at this other pub. He said pubs just can't survive because of the constant targets they are being forced to meet.
Yep, then once the smaller places are gone and there's no choice, the prices go up...
Yeah, I went into a place last week and it was heaving. Same place this week, same night, I was the only one there. I ordered one pint and left, then they shut.
Compared to the damage wreaked by some of the big brewers on the pub industry with tied houses, Weatherspoons is literally small beer.
I think that there is a lot of gripe about him and his politics but most of his houses are well run, clean and reasonably priced for food and drink. If there is a university nearby, they tend to be packed with students during term time.
Sure they have an impact too, but look at price difference in the post I quoted, says it all. You say his prices are reasonably priced, I say small businesses can't compete, both statements are true.
That's business. At the end of the day, convenience and price will always win out.
That's why so many of us use Amazon. We know it's exploitative and that they treat their warehouse workers like ****, but we still use it.
True, although Amazon do take the ****.
I think my promoting on Wetherspoons is becoming a bit of a running theme on the forums but I genuinely enjoy our local one.
I think there are vast differences between the pubs though, obviously the food drink etc are going to be much the same, but the cleanliness and atmosphere.
For example my local Wetherspoons (Whittlesey, Cambs) is as they go really quite nice, it's in the site of a very old hotel many hundreds on years old, pretty clean in there toilets etc ok, and the staff are friendly.
When I was going to Wales in the summer we stopped off at one in Leominster, which seemed quite nice.
Then another one I occasionally go to is Southgate in North London and that one isn't so great.
Montague Pike up from Leicester Square is another, again a bit average......
So it does vary.
Ah yes, the Montague Pike! Been a while.
I know what you mean, it obviously depends on management. Some are very decent, some not. The Postal Order in Crystal Palace always used to have toothless vagrants outside it asking for money... turns out it was the customers.
You’ll probably find that most coke sold on the street contains at best 10% cocaine if your lucky.
I wouldn’t recommend substituting a drinking habit for a coke habit though, far more better drugs for you such as the sweet herb.
I think he was talking about Coca Cola...
Ah my bad I saw a post earlier and mistakenly thought it was a reply to that
Must put down the doobie… if only I could remember where I put it.
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That's another thing. I was going to do dry January but a coke in my local is £3.50 so I thought sod it might as well pay 30p more for a Carling.
I guess it's the same business pricing strategy as wanting a 4080 and thinking bugger it I'll buy a 4090 for £400 more
I guess it's the same business pricing strategy as wanting a 4080 and thinking bugger it I'll buy a 4090 for £400 more
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Thing is I was buying crates of Bud last year and over the World Cup at it worked out 50p a bottle.
I’ll pay for a pint if I’m in a pub but the desire to actually want to go to one is just not their.