£7.50p a pint. That’s it I’m out

[Master Bean]

I paid £4.30 for half a pint of ipa in Swindon last week.

[kingston12]

Alickadoo said:

kingston12 said:

Shnozz said:

The Mrs and I met for a post work drink last Friday in leeds.

2 glasses of wine for her - £24. 3 pints for me was the same. £4.50 for a handful of olives and the added service charge meant £60 for a quick hour.

Won’t be heading back anytime soon.

The service charge is the final nail in the coffin. Probably 12.5 or 15% at a place like that as well, so your £8 pint is actually more than £9.

We occasionally do similar in a local bar. before going for dinner. It's full service so I don't mind the service charges per se, but when you come out £60 lighter from just having a couple of early drinks, it's not something we do that often any more.

Then Wetherspoons is one answer. Not the only answer, but certainly one of them.

Actually, around here it probably is the only answer! There's one within half a mile of the bar I mentioned, totally different experience of course, but probably less than a third of the price for the same drinks/snacks that we had when you take into account the lack of service charge.

All of the other local pubs and bars are much closer to the price of the original one, albeit without the service charge.

I'm happy to have all of the options available, although appreciate that the more expensive ones might not be for long if people stop going so often.

[Driver101]

A lot of people are happy to pay a good premium to avoid Wetherspoons.

There are plenty of options for everyone.

[sutoka]

Went to a new microbrewery/ tap room the other week with the missus , all very hipster etc

Pint was £6.50 for a regular IPA up to £12 for a ten percentage 2/3

My biggest gripe was when it came to paying it tried to add 10% service charge onto the price and then the cheek to prompt if you wanted to add a 10%,15% or 20% tip. This is a pub with someone putting a glass to the pump it takes 10 seconds.

We are quite into spreadsheets and worked out if we both had 4 pints each of th cheapest ale over the course of the night we’d have spent £12.50 on tips and service . We both worked in drinks trade and still think it’s ridiculous.

Even more so considering this place brews all its own beer

[konark]

sutoka said:

Went to a new microbrewery/ tap room the other week with the missus , all very hipster etc

Pint was £6.50 for a regular IPA up to £12 for a ten percentage 2/3

My biggest gripe was when it came to paying it tried to add 10% service charge onto the price and then the cheek to prompt if you wanted to add a 10%,15% or 20% tip. This is a pub with someone putting a glass to the pump it takes 10 seconds.

We are quite into spreadsheets and worked out if we both had 4 pints each of th cheapest ale over the course of the night we’d have spent £12.50 on tips and service . We both worked in drinks trade and still think it’s ridiculous.

Even more so considering this place brews all its own beer

That's hipster tax.

[tamore]

sutoka said:

Went to a new microbrewery/ tap room the other week with the missus , all very hipster etc

Pint was £6.50 for a regular IPA up to £12 for a ten percentage 2/3

My biggest gripe was when it came to paying it tried to add 10% service charge onto the price and then the cheek to prompt if you wanted to add a 10%,15% or 20% tip. This is a pub with someone putting a glass to the pump it takes 10 seconds.

We are quite into spreadsheets and worked out if we both had 4 pints each of th cheapest ale over the course of the night we’d have spent £12.50 on tips and service . We both worked in drinks trade and still think it’s ridiculous.

Even more so considering this place brews all its own beer

how busy was it?

[Cats_pyjamas]

We went out last night, consistently £6.50 to £7 a pint now. I must be getting old.

[Tango13]

Cats_pyjamas said:

We went out last night, consistently £6.50 to £7 a pint now. I must be getting old.

That's just life in general though, when I first got into motorbikes a new bike was between £4k~£5.5k depending on what you bought and exotica like the RC30 or OW01 were £10k~£12k so that's what I still think bikes should cost.

I've not bought a new bike in 16yrs and got a very healthy discount on that too. 35 years later and there's a Yamaha I liked the look of and my reaction was 'twelve fking grand for an average mid-range motorbike? I'm not paying that for a fking bike!!'

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but we're all getting old

[mwstewart]

Tango13 said:

Cats_pyjamas said:

We went out last night, consistently £6.50 to £7 a pint now. I must be getting old.

That's just life in general though, when I first got into motorbikes a new bike was between £4k~£5.5k depending on what you bought and exotica like the RC30 or OW01 were £10k~£12k so that's what I still think bikes should cost.

I've not bought a new bike in 16yrs and got a very healthy discount on that too. 35 years later and there's a Yamaha I liked the look of and my reaction was 'twelve fking grand for an average mid-range motorbike? I'm not paying that for a fking bike!!'

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but we're all getting old

Get yer sen to Spoons

[snuffy]

sutoka said:

We are quite into spreadsheets and worked out if we both had 4 pints each of th cheapest ale over the course of the night we’d have spent £12.50 on tips and service . We both worked in drinks trade and still think it’s ridiculous.

Even more so considering this place brews all its own beer

6.5 x 2 x4 x 25%, and you needed a spreadsheet to work that out?

[Tango13]

mwstewart said:

Get yer sen to Spoons

The 'Council' thread is that way --> -->

[mwstewart]

Tango13 said:

mwstewart said:

Get yer sen to Spoons

The 'Council' thread is that way --> -->

[Cotty]

sutoka said:

My biggest gripe was when it came to paying it tried to add 10% service charge onto the price and then the cheek to prompt if you wanted to add a 10%,15% or 20% tip. This is a pub with someone putting a glass to the pump it takes 10 seconds.

I went to a carvery where you serve yourself, I tipped myself a couple of quid

[Stan the Bat]

Spoons are always pretty big places , so you dont have to sit near the other people if you dont want to.

I like em.

[sutoka]

tamore said:

sutoka said:

Went to a new microbrewery/ tap room the other week with the missus , all very hipster etc

Pint was £6.50 for a regular IPA up to £12 for a ten percentage 2/3

My biggest gripe was when it came to paying it tried to add 10% service charge onto the price and then the cheek to prompt if you wanted to add a 10%,15% or 20% tip. This is a pub with someone putting a glass to the pump it takes 10 seconds.

We are quite into spreadsheets and worked out if we both had 4 pints each of th cheapest ale over the course of the night we’d have spent £12.50 on tips and service . We both worked in drinks trade and still think it’s ridiculous.

Even more so considering this place brews all its own beer

how busy was it?

It was fairly busy we are both mid to late 30's and I guess it was mostly late 20's probably folk that can't remember when a 4 pint pitcher was a fiver and to be honest their bog IPA tastes no better.

[devnull]

Lester H said:

Adam. said:

I went to a Wetherspoons for I think the first time in my life, can someone explain to me how they make a profit?


It’s wasn’t as terrible as I thought it might be though the clientele were a bit ropey. Me and my mates are seriously considering kicking evenings off there

I suspect that the answer is volume of sales. I posted earlier that £5 a pint is my limit in a non- food led pub but Wetherspoons sell so much that they must have great clout when it comes to price negotiation. Why don’t more of the posher pubs where you would take your wife, girlfriend or mistress ( maybe all 3) see this relationship between price and sales? As this is PH readers will know that Henry Ford ( later, Lord Austin and Wm. Morris ) knew this a century ago.

Late reply to this, I was part of an infrastructure tender with them a few years ago and their procurement tactics were relentless - basically asking for 90% off the price, reminding us that this is how they get their cost of pint low.

[tamore]

devnull said:

Late reply to this, I was part of an infrastructure tender with them a few years ago and their procurement tactics were relentless - basically asking for 90% off the price, reminding us that this is how they get their cost of pint low.

as the owner of a brewery, they are same with their product procurement too.

[Alickadoo]

tamore said:

devnull said:

Late reply to this, I was part of an infrastructure tender with them a few years ago and their procurement tactics were relentless - basically asking for 90% off the price, reminding us that this is how they get their cost of pint low.

as the owner of a brewery, they are same with their product procurement too.

And you can always say no and sell your beer/service etc to someone else.

Back in the days when I had a property maintenance company, I was chasing one company for payment after a month and they told me they were going over to 60 days credit.

Without me.

[mcflurry]

sutoka said:

My biggest gripe was when it came to paying it tried to add 10% service charge onto the price and then the cheek to prompt if you wanted to add a 10%,15% or 20% tip. This is a pub with someone putting a glass to the pump it takes 10 seconds.

That annoys me too.
Nowadays I press "other" then select either zero or round it to the next £1

[tamore]

Alickadoo said:

tamore said:

devnull said:

Late reply to this, I was part of an infrastructure tender with them a few years ago and their procurement tactics were relentless - basically asking for 90% off the price, reminding us that this is how they get their cost of pint low.

as the owner of a brewery, they are same with their product procurement too.

And you can always say no and sell your beer/service etc to someone else.

Back in the days when I had a property maintenance company, I was chasing one company for payment after a month and they told me they were going over to 60 days credit.

Without me.

i did. was a very short conversation with them explaining why i should sell beer in at a loss and me laughing at that assertion.