Spurs Beer Taps

Not sure what this is for. Looks like a daft expensive gimmick to me. Yes it might fill slightly quicker, but it's lager, so it could be pre poured as at many stadia.

Presumably specialised glasses. More expense. Why?!

 

I've seen them before and they improve productivity behind the bar. It looks like they should get the basics right first though and invest in a cloth or some bluroll. @Loko the Tyke would have a fit if the bar in Redfearn's was that messy.

 

Bottoms up dispense was only invented around five years ago and brought to the UK for the first time three years ago. Three stadiums have them installed (think Liverpool were the first). Similar things exist but not pouring from the bottom up.

 

My first thought was the bar top was an absolute joke when all your beer is being poured for you. All those North London hipsters that were out the night before and waking up with the shakes.

 

Lots of reasons.

You don’t need pre-poured if a machine is pouring for you as someone orders, so far quicker and requires less people behind the bar.

Zero wastage. Massive for high volume sites and saves you a fortune.

Looks innovative. Which is what your fancy new stadium with it’s own micro brewery is trying to portray.

You don’t need to train people how to pour a pint. So staff turnover doesn’t matter. They just need to push down on the top of the pint glass. Literally a ten second explanation at the start of your first shift.

 

New to the UK though. I was one of the first people to install it in the UK c. three or four years ago just before Anfield took it. Because you've seen it and remembered it doesn't make it any less exciting when it suddenly hits the mainstream.

There's a video on my Instagram of one of the first units to ever make it over to this country and that's not way old.

 

Cheers for the info. A bit worried about the lessening of training of staff thing though. As you know it's a real annoyance to me. Most staff in pubs nowadays are absolutely shocking. No clue how to serve, always there with the cop-out "who's next please?" statement, rather than knowing themselves. Eating their lunch on the end of the bar, when their are customers waiting to be served, two or three members of staff trying to sort one problem, ignoring the rest of the customers in line; staff continuing conversations whilst customers wait. It's just sloppy. You can imagine the fun conversations me and my sister have when we're out!! (Redfearns staff are excluded from this!).

 

You're talking about a fairly transient place though in terms of a Football Club. This isn't a pub and the sole aim is to take as much money as possible in that short window of opportunity. Staff turn up for games whenever they want, leave at the drop of a hat, and often only work one shift. If you can make what they have to do as easy as possible then your original objective will be made.

These machines don't exist in pubs, and in theory if they did and cut down the training hours spent on serving beer you'd use the money saved to invest in other areas of training.

All your frustrations are valid though. Never on my watch!

 

Agreed - I rarely bother getting a drink inside a ground as a) I expect it to be crap, b) I expect it to be overpriced and c) I expect the service to be poor. Hence why if I do want a drink I do it before the game.
Same applies for food. Just can't be bothered with it inside a ground.