In my mid thirties and don’t know a single person our age going to the pub.
They’re dreary, depressing, overpriced, miles from anywhere, you can’t drink and drive, and filled with weird old men.
The concept is just dead now. There’s so many better things to do with free time which either cost less / don’t actively destroy your liver.
If just two of you go to the pub it’s over a tenner every single time you go to the bar. It’s obviously not going to survive at that price when 4 cans are 6 quid.
Breweries need to bring their prices down. A keg of bear is around 50 pints probably less with wastage. Some of those kegs are £200 a barrel. They have to be stored in a cooled cellar and served by a minimum wage staff member in a pub that’s got to be warm and clean.
The pub itself is likely making about £2 if that on each pint.
Cocktails on the other hand can be upwards of a 700% margin. A lot of what you’re drinking is water in some cases.
That’s where most of your money goes and pubs still struggle.
Mark up on food is even worse. And sometimes breweries will take an extra percentage from any profits from the booze you buy from them in rent.
Fact is you can get a group of 4 adults high for an entire evening for just £5 smoking weed. No hangover either you wake up in the morning fine and have a whole Sunday free.
At a pub you’d all be spending £30+ per head just to get people similarly high. You either need to find taxis (more cost) or have a nominated driver (shit time) to get home. You’ll also feel crappy all Sunday.
This is a large part of the reason pubs are dying out. Young people are finding better, cheaper drugs.
They should get on and legalise weed. Missing out on a fortune in untaxed drugs moving on the black market. Plenty of people would prefer the less hassle route of buying it legally.
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In my mid thirties and don’t know a single person our age going to the pub.
They’re dreary, depressing, overpriced, miles from anywhere, you can’t drink and drive, and filled with weird old men.
The concept is just dead now. There’s so many better things to do with free time which either cost less / don’t actively destroy your liver.
If just two of you go to the pub it’s over a tenner every single time you go to the bar. It’s obviously not going to survive at that price when 4 cans are 6 quid.
Breweries need to bring their prices down. A keg of bear is around 50 pints probably less with wastage. Some of those kegs are £200 a barrel. They have to be stored in a cooled cellar and served by a minimum wage staff member in a pub that’s got to be warm and clean.
The pub itself is likely making about £2 if that on each pint.
Cocktails on the other hand can be upwards of a 700% margin. A lot of what you’re drinking is water in some cases.
That’s where most of your money goes and pubs still struggle.
Mark up on food is even worse. And sometimes breweries will take an extra percentage from any profits from the booze you buy from them in rent.
Fact is you can get a group of 4 adults high for an entire evening for just £5 smoking weed. No hangover either you wake up in the morning fine and have a whole Sunday free.
At a pub you’d all be spending £30+ per head just to get people similarly high. You either need to find taxis (more cost) or have a nominated driver (shit time) to get home. You’ll also feel crappy all Sunday.
This is a large part of the reason pubs are dying out. Young people are finding better, cheaper drugs.
They should get on and legalise weed. Missing out on a fortune in untaxed drugs moving on the black market. Plenty of people would prefer the less hassle route of buying it legally.