Beer-o-nomics

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr much!

 

The Brooklyn AF one? I agree! And about the venue, my favourite place atm, just wished I lived a bit closer and i could go to more gigs there. Superchunk last month were ace.

 

WHAAAAAT?! That's absolutely outrageous.

 

On the subject of beeronomics, the first pint I bought in a pub (The Number 7 in Tarn) in about 1972 was 10p....

 

The proof will be in the pudding when we play Stevenage. I want it to work, I want the stadium full. If we have more than 12,000 home fans in though, I'd be surprised.

 

i would say one offs never work. We do a random game the crowds don’t go up so we shrug. You need a long term approach to reduced pricing to make it work. Bradford have shown you can do it but it’s a long term commitment not a short term one.

 

I'm all for decreasing profit margins for increased turnover, especially when it comes to booze

 

Captive market as been mentioned. The 2 pint servings were I think £17 each and then £12.50 per double rum and coke. Got a face like thunder from the server when I asked for her to top up the beer as well, was well under the 2 pint marker. Its a complete nonsense as you say - equivalent of 6 drinks for £60.

 

I find it easy not paying those prices for a beer. I can never afford the tickets to get in a place where they charge so much.

 

I think that's the one. Couldn't recall the name.

 

The two pint glasses there were £17 on my last visit there earlier in the year, so that would make sense overall.

 

I'm far from a big drinker, but that post has just made me teetotal.

 

One of my first big nights out was a 6th form trip to Rooftops in Wakefield for 10p per pint night (late 80s). My rugby playing mate spent £2.50 and was thrown out around 10pm - the bus back left at 2am...

 

I guess it goes back to the discussion we had yesterday though. Bradford's season tickets are slightly more than a third cheaper than ours, but their average attendance is about a third higher. It's only just got back to that level too btw, they've had a drop off of attendances since the pandemic and being relegated to league 2. If the aim of the club, as you suggested yesterday, is to make money, dropping season ticket prices is one hell of a gamble if the only example to use is Bradford, who are no better off financially as a result. Obviously it would be better to have 17,000 in the stadium instead of 11,500 but there's no guarantee it'd happen. I'm not saying I agree with it, just that I can see why they'd offer these mid season offers instead. Try to capitalise on the casual fan, as I think the die hards are there regardless.

 

Having been in the trade for over 30 years I can tell you the supermarket is more often than not the cheapest place to buy beers, wines and spirits for a bar. We bought Fosters on draught direct from the brewery, at times Tesco retailed the canned version at half the price per litre we were charged for the keg version. Even buying wines and spirits by the case was more expensive than going to the supermarket.

 

I get why people might think the COVID card is being played excessively, but for a bit of balance the ongoing cost to me in the form of debt repayments is somewhere north of £3.5k a month at the moment, years later - most of the support given to hospitality still needs to be paid back. Pair that with the fact that venues of all kinds are simply seeing fewer customers and you begin to see why the profiteering accusation niggles a bit!

That doesn't excuse some of the more egregious examples in this thread though, of course. I like going to the cricket, but I can't justify drinking beer there any more. I generally look at price, quality and convenience when it comes to food and drink - one of those has to be pretty much outstanding for me to be tempted nowadays. I'll happily queue all day for something good, and I spend far too much on eating out, but standing waiting in a line for the privilege of paying £8 for a plastic pot of generic lager? No thanks!

 

We moan about beer, but wine is worse, in that it fluctuates ridiculously. Lager just gasses me up so I'll usually have Doombar/Landlords or if theres anything real ale wi twigs in it, then that'll do, ranges from £3 - £5 a pint. The missus will have a large sauvignon and that can vary from £4.50 - £12 a glass! I've even seen a pub pouring Aldi's own Pinot (£4.39 a bottle in the shop) for £8.80 for a 250cl, the equivalent of £26.40 a bottle, that's some mark up!

 

Works at Bradford.

 

We deal with deliveries to and from the Burton and Tadcaster breweries, and various others as well.

It reminds me of being able to buy a pint of beer/lager for the first time when I turned 18, and it was just £1 then.

 

I remember when I moved to Cardiff, early '88 and had to pay a pound a pint, rip off big city prices!