The Brighton/Sussex +£4 a Pint Thread of Shame

[Safeway]

i have nver understood bottle drinkers and their acceptance of paying same price as pint or more for only half-2/3 a pint. people know what it costs as they buy exactly the same thing in the super market for £10 a dozen or 18 (so 50-85p bottle). at least draft can pretend/claim to be a better taste. buy a half instead.

Draught wasn't an option, it was bottles only. They didn't have the prices displayed either and, although I probably wouldn't have ordered one had I known in advance, it's a bit pikey to then refuse to pay.

 

[Yoda]

Got a pint of San Miguel at Worthing Leisure Centre last night after training, only to find it's gone up from £2.85 to £3.05.

A rise of 2.5% VAT should ony be 6p, that's SIX PENCE, so where's the other 14p going?

 

[jcdenton08]

That’s still reasonable compared to what you pay in New York. $8 (about £5.40 at current exchange rate) and more is not uncommon in mid-town bars and remember the US pint is smaller.

As a regular NYC visitor I have struggled to find any regular bars charging as much as $8 - the only time we pay around that mark is comedy clubs/jazz bars etc. - Dinosaur restaurant in Harlem has an incredible range of beers on draught - no more than $5/6...

 

[Spun Cuppa]

thats largly bollocks. how many pubs charge £3.50 and dont have sky or music? quite alot. £2k is the cost of Sky and if you dont draw in the dozen punters to cover that on a dozen game days a month, then dont have it - simple economics. staffing in a typical boozer is 3 or 4 verses maybe 5 or 6 in the wetherspoons. when it comes to buying power, they cant get it cheaper than the breweries themselves could provide to their tied houses. in fact its pretty common for tied pubs to be more expensive than non tied in my experience, showing that the buying power is false arguement. the spoonies is also probaly a much larger premises and therefore higher rent, rates and maintainence costs. they are just well run and target a market apparently shunned by many other pubs.

its simply down to greed of the pub and bar owners (as in the freeholders). the market bears is so they carry on - again simple economics. except all those pubs where they cant and they would rather just shut to sell the land as pointed out (though i think thats more a pubco issue than breweries). often those a ropey pubs where the drinkers would just as happily sit at home. sadly we lose a few good pubs along the way.

thats all beside the point. Wetherspoons shows the sort of prices that are viable for a business, that a good yard stick to say what prices should be at.

I don't think it's bollocks tbh. 2k works out to forty quid a week, which if you work out the increase in trade having Sky Sports would bring, ALL pubs would have it. As an example, on a Sunday lunch, I can go in Spoons and pay £2.40 for a pint of lager with no Sky Sports, or go over the road to Yates and pay £3.20 for a comparative pint of lager and get Sky Sports. And regarding pubs charging £3.50 a pint and not showing Sky Sports, the simple answer is not to go in them and find one that has it

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

More to the point, will Falmer be added to this thread?