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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:26 am
by Kharhaz
shanks72 wrote:Don't go out that much now as prefer a quiet night indoors but when I do I don't tend to spend more than £15

Me too. I have worked in pubs and hotels and so know how they work.

In the hotel we had 4 bars. I was the Cellarman at the time. In the bar we would charge for a pint of lager £1.80. In the Lounge we would charge £2.00 and in the function rooms we would charge £2.20. If people paid for a function room they would pay over the odds. Well over £100. Those rooms were not being used, we could have given it away, but we charged over the odds as people paid it. Most of the time they wanted a buffet so again over £80 pound was charged for that privelage and a small portion of that was spent on cheap food, Tescos at a push, market or nettos otherwise. The biggest trick to sell the buffet was to place a fresh dead fish on a mirror like tray and frame it with lemon and orange wedges, it worked a treat, it was the focal point for anyone approaching the buffet table. If they discounted that and looked at the buffet itself, they would question where the £80 odd went, but they didnt.

A drink of coke in a pub is the biggest rip off. Its a box of syrup, fed through a cooler and then dispensed with water. All pubs charge the earth for this. A box of coke syrup costs the pubs next to nothing, and yet a small fortune is charged. And yet again, people pay it, not only that, they request ice. Ice does water it down. You dont need it. The cooler does the job, the coke is cold enough, you dont need ice.

And the grand finale, the ones who are drunk who ask for a vodka and coke. A single house vodka and coke rather than the smirnoff, and charge full whack (a double smirnoff and half a coke) the drunks pay it every time.

Which is why I will buy beer to drink at home and take out £20 or less. So many people think "that beer was watered down". It wasnt, it was a barrel bought at the cheapest place available, lager that isnt known to anyone but ran through a "carling" pump so you know its lager at least.

People who spend more than this have probably been robbed so many times, they have been too drunk to notice.

PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:50 pm
by RED BEERGOGGLES
Kharhaz wrote:
shanks72 wrote:Don't go out that much now as prefer a quiet night indoors but when I do I don't tend to spend more than £15

Me too. I have worked in pubs and hotels and so know how they work.

In the hotel we had 4 bars. I was the Cellarman at the time. In the bar we would charge for a pint of lager £1.80. In the Lounge we would charge £2.00 and in the function rooms we would charge £2.20. If people paid for a function room they would pay over the odds. Well over £100. Those rooms were not being used, we could have given it away, but we charged over the odds as people paid it. Most of the time they wanted a buffet so again over £80 pound was charged for that privelage and a small portion of that was spent on cheap food, Tescos at a push, market or nettos otherwise. The biggest trick to sell the buffet was to place a fresh dead fish on a mirror like tray and frame it with lemon and orange wedges, it worked a treat, it was the focal point for anyone approaching the buffet table. If they discounted that and looked at the buffet itself, they would question where the £80 odd went, but they didnt.

A drink of coke in a pub is the biggest rip off. Its a box of syrup, fed through a cooler and then dispensed with water. All pubs charge the earth for this. A box of coke syrup costs the pubs next to nothing, and yet a small fortune is charged. And yet again, people pay it, not only that, they request ice. Ice does water it down. You dont need it. The cooler does the job, the coke is cold enough, you dont need ice.

And the grand finale, the ones who are drunk who ask for a vodka and coke. A single house vodka and coke rather than the smirnoff, and charge full whack (a double smirnoff and half a coke) the drunks pay it every time.

Which is why I will buy beer to drink at home and take out £20 or less. So many people think "that beer was watered down". It wasnt, it was a barrel bought at the cheapest place available, lager that isnt known to anyone but ran through a "carling" pump so you know its lager at least.

People who spend more than this have probably been robbed so many times, they have been too drunk to notice.

Cheers Lad that's just about every scam the pub trade can throw blown out the water ( especially the Coke syrup ) when the kids were young I must have blown a small fortune on cokes in pub restaurants .....

PostPosted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 5:32 am
by In and Out
It depends. Alot of the spending I do now is with the missess which usually includes a slap up meal plus a few drinks and if she's feeling lucky we'll head to the casino. That would usually cost 100 to 150 quid. If we do well at the casino a night out can be as little as 30 quid.

When I used to go out with me mates (back in the day) that would cost me waaaay more. If we went on a bender and got charged up I'd easily spend a couple of hundred quid and usually those sessions would run into the next day where another ton would be spent.

Back then money was spent for fun whereas today it's spent a little more practically.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:14 pm
by Redx
Hats off to some of you guys.. 30 to 40 euros for 2 of us in Spain..

PostPosted: Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:52 pm
by therocket147
70 to 80 pounds easily

PostPosted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:06 pm
by Big Niall
dawson99 wrote:Just wondering.
Just going out for beers yesterday, not a real heavy one but a good long days/nights drinking, got through £100 easy.

Usually when out i'll take a ton and have the card just in case, just wondering what the norm is

(and this wasn't money getting into a club or anything)

How much is "a ton"? - is it 100? no idea how you spend that much.

I spend about 40 euro if I am on a real booze up. lots of bars are a mix of bar and nightclub here so no need to pay to get into some place.

Last bus home is a fiver, never really into fast food after drinking a skinfull and don't smoke so not too expensive.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 4:03 pm
by dawson99
100 is easy. 10 on travel, 5 on cigs, then 4 a drink, 10 a cocktail, add food and hookers...

PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:15 pm
by worcester_red
Gerrard30391 wrote:Im a student, and a normal night out £80 - £100. Special occasion i.e. Birthday, End of semester et.c you can add half again, at least.

Bloody hell, how do you spend that much in a student union???

PostPosted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:56 pm
by damjan193
5 - 10 :D. People here earn about 200 pounds a month :D so prices are a bit lower :).

PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:29 pm
by metalhead
100 +

I only go to the classiest places.. where a drink cost 80 quid :talktothehand

PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:09 pm
by worcester_red
Big Niall wrote:
dawson99 wrote:Just wondering.
Just going out for beers yesterday, not a real heavy one but a good long days/nights drinking, got through £100 easy.

Usually when out i'll take a ton and have the card just in case, just wondering what the norm is

(and this wasn't money getting into a club or anything)

How much is "a ton"? - is it 100? no idea how you spend that much.

I spend about 40 euro if I am on a real booze up. lots of bars are a mix of bar and nightclub here so no need to pay to get into some place.

Last bus home is a fiver, never really into fast food after drinking a skinfull and don't smoke so not too expensive.

40€ that would only buy you about 6 pints in Ireland, or most parts of Europe, not saying anything but I'm thinking light.  :D

On a proper :censored: up I'll easily rip through £80, an average night out will be £50-60

PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 2:26 pm
by metalhead
classless :no




I'm kidding :D

PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:06 pm
by dawson99
wanna see my latest...bar

Image

well you cant... link dont work lol

its groovy wonderland... multicoloured floor, waitresses on roller skates who serve you cocktails in coconuts... awesome, but kinda expensive

PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:25 pm
by metalhead
No black and white checkered floor I hope? I don't want any of this satanic stuff in a bar

:D

PostPosted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 10:46 pm
by dawson99
metalhead wrote:No black and white checkered floor I hope? I don't want any of this satanic stuff in a bar

:D

its called groovy wonderland dude, its mental... its downstairs from a bar called the maber bar, which looks pretty posh... its class though. good crowd, 5-8 happy hour and some nice birds