Quote from: thewobbler on March 27, 2024, 11:15:01 AMQuote from: Tony Baloney on March 27, 2024, 10:31:23 AMQuote from: toby47 on March 27, 2024, 09:06:54 AMSo a 7 quid pint has a fiver going to the publican - 440 for a keg. Obviously that doesn't take into account the many overheads a business owner has, but it's mad that small places operating at low volumes can charge much less and still keep going.Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on March 26, 2024, 07:33:32 PMWhat are pubs paying Diageo per pint nowadays? Couldn't be much over £2?
Yeah nearly £2 on the button.
The traditional pub model was a ratio of 3:1 on purchases i.e if a drink sold at £3, roughly £1 was for the wholesaler, £1 was for cost of business (staff, heat, light, insurance, tv, etc), and £1 was profit/loan repayments/reinvestment.
Diageo (and other brewers) have made this model unsustainable in recent years, as bars attempting to charge £6 for a pint when the same core product is available in off sales for around £1, should put themselves out of business.
When I say should, Belfast city centre's pub scene is effectively a cartel and they got together during Covid to agree minimum pricing i.e. a return to 3:1 ratios on pints.
Which as a move I suppose I'd support in general, except those shower of profiteering c***ts are now using a baseline 3:1, and are charging upwards on 8:1 ratios for mixed drinks and "premium" bottled beers.
Then they appear in the press every few weeks claiming poverty.
No harm to any of them. If they're converting £12 bottles of Smirnoff into £120 cash on repeat, and still claiming poverty, then they're on the take.
A massive bug bear of mine.
If you're going to gouge consumers and they're happy to come back for a gouging time and time again, well fair play to you. Fill yer boots.
But not content with that, the city centre cartels feel they need a slice out of the tax/rate payer also.
Greedy cnuts, fronted by the insufferable Colin Neill