Hi

heres a thought

a Can of Beer basically fills a Pint Glass and costs 80p-£1

The same Pint of Beer from a pump in a Pub costs £2-2.50

If you asked for a pint of fosters and they got a can out of the fridge and filled your pint glass with it we would be in uproar as you can get that can for X amount from the shop..................

Diet coke 1.20 for a cans worth in a pub from the nice pump

if they filled it out of a 2 litre £1.40 bottle
and charged you £1.20 for a glass youd probably moan

its no different to the pump stuff basically though is it.....................

Just goes to show how much of a proffit the pubs/bars are actually making doesnt it!!!

The fact that they are buying in bulk means that they are porberably paying less than the supermarket price that you pay in the first place

Such is life!

under weights and measures act , they cant get away with it , unless people are drunk enough to buy it .

if theyre selling a pint you should get a pint , take it back and ask them to fill it up .

one of our local pubs sold ale out of an automatic dispenser , always got loads of head , i refused to pay for it , or fill it up - i ended up walking out .

Except that a pub has big overheads, provides entertainment and has to wash your glass etc.
Also your local corner shop has probably bought the stuff off some bloke who does the Calais Run!
You can always sit at home like Billy no-mates!



[Edited on 2/4/2007 by nitram38]

or bring your own cans

The price you pay in a pub reflects the cost of the rent on the premises plus heating and lighting, The cost of the bar staff and the kid who cleans the glasses ...

The can / bottle that you open in your house doesn't. Add to this that supermarkets buy from the manufacturer wheras pubs buy coke and things from a wholesale middleman and its no wonder.

Pubs make a huge markup, especially on soft drinks, but the cost of running them eats much of that profit.

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Originally posted by Volvorsport
under weights and measures act , they cant get away with it , unless people are drunk enough to buy it .

if theyre selling a pint you should get a pint , take it back and ask them to fill it up .

one of our local pubs sold ale out of an automatic dispenser , always got loads of head , i refused to pay for it , or fill it up - i ended up walking out .

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This is precisly why I drink in the local social club. Nice atmosphere, pool table with plenty of room and Guiness is £2.10 a pint. Hooky's even cheaper at £1.80. Or just get some mates round, buy in the beer and pizza and you're done for £10 each. And you can't get kicked out for being drunk or ill in the corner!

Tied pubs have to pay well over the odds for the beer, soft drinks and spirits from the brewery they are tied to. Its not just the landlord who is screwing you mthe breweries are as well! Free houses fare a little better as they can set one brewery off against another but still they are probably paying more a pint than you can get it in the supermarket. Real Ale at a pub is a totally different product to that found in cans and bottles and is probably worth it. Fizzy ale, lager and guiness however are the same stuff blown out with CO2 and the real rip off!

Caber

You will actually find that if you buy Coke or similar it actually only costs the pub a few pence as they buy a syrup and water it down - soft drinks are very profitable for pubs and restaurants when they buy like this. Another area is Resaurants and bottles of wine - typically the price is 3 times the shop price, but if the restaurant charge less than this the inland revenue will question their profit margins.

Overall though, the comments about the overheads are very valid - sure, we pay more, but running a pub is not cheap. Go and ask your local landlord what the percentage profit is after covering all costs. Alternatively if you think they rip you off, buy a pub and sell the beer and coke for supermarket prices - once we have all visited your Locost pub you will not even have £250 left to build a car with

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i used to drink lager and lime and my local started charging 40p for a dash. the whold bottle of cordial probably didn't cost that much

Im not on about profits Im on about how we think as people

the can is the same stuff as the pull

but if they poured our pint out of a can we would look on in disbelief

I know what I mean

Only very few tinned lagers taste as good as on draught (the little tins of Bud I have dound are an exception) as for brown beers D.Diamond is the only tinned version that comes close IMHO.

Bottles are quite acceptable though infact people a premium.

Now youve made me thirsty

- Jim

£1.50 a pint of Carlsburg cold at my local or £2 for a guinness/stella

i miss being back up north, remember the days of £1.80 pints of guiness extra cold and £1.20 pints of foster............

i always wonder what is the salary in the UK?

Here in spain i think its arround 900euro's per 40hours week.

sow in UK pounds that would be 600Pounds.. Due to the fact that the UK has higher prices i think you will earn more

how much? is the unanswered question..

Tks

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Originally posted by tks
i always wonder what is the salary in the UK?

Here in spain i think its arround 900euro's per 40hours month.

sow in UK pounds that would be 600Pounds.. Due to the fact that the UK has higher prices i think you will earn more

how much? is the unanswered question..

Tks

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My local landlord (free house) says he pays a little under £70 for a firkin of bitter (GK IPA)
so by the time he's pulled it through that's a pound a pint.

My only gripe is that shandy is the same price as beer.

Draught lemonade has got to cost about 10p a pint.

And they have the cheek to say Gordon should reduce the taxes.

Must go. A couple of hours in the garage then I'm off down the pub.

Paul G

As they say round here when they get a short pint, "Is there room for a whiskey in there?" If the answer's yes fill it up with beer. The wife and I got fed up of going to the pub, all the trouble and fights. We stay in and fight now. When the local supermarket had lemonade at 15p a bottle all the landlords were coming out of the place with trolleys full of the stuff to keep in the cellar, tied or not.

Yes and when I worked in a tied house we did runs to the cheapest offy to get whiskey and voddy for filling up the optics, mostly to replace the freebies handed out by the over generous manager and drunk by his over consuming wife

Caber

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Originally posted by zxrlocost
Im not on about profits Im on about how we think as people

the can is the same stuff as the pull

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