penny off a pint fantastic news -----

[big-all]

--------well not really
at £2 a pint its £400 for a free pint
at £3 its £900
at £4 its £1600

take the cost off the pint and multiply by that number to gets the cost as in £2.78x 278 is 772.84p

[moderator6]

Yeah but on the plus side it'll save BillyGoat a tenner on his average night out

[Colour Republic]

[big-all]

Yeah but on the plus side it'll save BillyGoat a tenner on his average night out

3k on a night out ---
---that would keep me going for around 6 years

[joinerjohn]

Seriously, how many establishments are going to pass this (supposed) saving on to us punters??
I reckon none, will pass it on (and even if one establishment plays the game, it will go up within a fortnight, blaming the increase on the price of fuel/barley/hops/water/electricity/gas/ bread/spam/tobacco. )

[big-all]

Seriously, how many establishments are going to pass this (supposed) saving on to us punters??
I reckon none, will pass it on (and even if one establishment plays the game, it will go up within a fortnight, blaming the increase on the price of fuel/barley/hops/water/electricity/gas/ bread/spam/tobacco. )

to be honest the best publicity would be for a pub to say 10 or 20p of as in 10 or 20 times better than the chancellor can offer

[northwales4u]

There was an article on BBC Breakfast this morning saying the important point wasn't the 1p off the pint but the differential between the chancellor's original proposal of adding 8-10p per pint then doing a U-turn and knocking 1p off instead so in real terms punters are saving 9-11p per pint. Thats what they said on the TV not my views.

To me it's hard trying to imagine saving 9-11p per pint on something that never happened. The main competitor to pubs is cheap booze from the supermarkets (which also benefit from the 1p cut) so I can't see how it can help the pub. I rarely go to the pub anymore but its not the prices its that the nearest one if too far away and it takes me ages zig zagging trying to walk home

[BillyGoat]

I had a bit of banter with the missis about this today. She said they should pass the penny on, I said they should NOT.

She said, why??

The way I see it, a penny might save me a 10'er a night, but most people will never see any benefit (other than the feel good factor of something finally going down). Now, take everything else going up:

- Electric to keep the pub lit up, TV on, music playing
- Heating - got to keep us warm
- Rates - everything is going up here too
- PL insurance for all the idiots that get pissed, fall over and sue the chain

Now, take all those pennies over the year and put them into the coffers. They way I see it allows them to use the collective amount to offset the other bills coming in. THAT right there is what's going to keep your pint the same price that extra bit longer. THAT is what might keep that local pub/bar open that little bit longer.

Those are my thoughts, anyhow, however right or wrong they may be!

BG

[kellys_eye]

Revoke the smoking ban - that'll get the pubs back on their feet.

[BillyGoat]

Revoke the smoking ban - that'll get the pubs back on their feet.

the most annoying thing about the smoking ban is that they all congregate at the doors to welcome you in or out or in the gardens.

Rather than being a few outside, there are masses smoking the place out!!

[Mooncat]

I don't go into pubs very often, but if smoking in them comes back, I'll patronise them even less.

PS: it's a 5 mile walk to the nearest pub anyway.

[northwales4u]

An old gent I knew, pre-smoking ban, would just go to Wetherspoons because they had a non-smoking section (even though he never sat in it) and would meet his other old cronie mates 4 times a week. He would always go on about how he couldnt wait for the no smoking ban to come into effect. Once it did he had a moan that all his old cronie mates weren't meeting up because now they were going to their local pubs now that they are all smoke free (can't win them all)

PS My local pub is about 3 miles away there and a 10 miles meander back