O'Neills central London pub adds £2 surcharge to pints ordered after 10pm

[A380]

Oh my gosh, inflation is insane here. Food and drink especially so. That may be the main reason he won...

Friends of mine just got back from trip up the East Coast and couldn't believe the price of food in supermarkets and restaurants. There used to be a feeling here that food cost were much cheaper with yu, even when the exchange rate was bad for us. But I couldn't believe some of the prices they were taking about; and food inflation has been pretty extreme here.


Still, I'm sure when the human pumpkin expels all the people working for below minimum wage on farms, then that's going to help bring the price of groceries down....

 

[A380]

1.25

I've a feeling their fluid ozs are smaller than imperial ones as well...

 

[Gerry1time]

OK, that is WAY cheaper than here. I don't drink, but if I did, I'd be on a plane for London right now

$14US for a 16oz beer

Isn't american beer much weaker than British beer too? I remember when I was a student in New York, I found a place that sold Newcastle Brown Ale, my fuck you up juice of the time, only to discover that they shipped a weaker version of it to the US for the American market. 'Keggers' at student parties were like drinking tea at a kid's tea party too, having to pretend you were getting drunk when you really weren't. Or perhaps they all were. I wasn't, I know that much.

 

[maomao]

I've a feeling their fluid ozs are smaller than imperial ones as well...

Larger actually, which I didn't know. A UK pint is actually 1.209 US pints.

 

[bcuster]

Friends of mine just got back from trip up the East Coast and couldn't believe the price of food in supermarkets and restaurants. There used to be a feeling here that food cost were much cheaper with yu, even when the exchange rate was bad for us. But I couldn't believe some of the prices they were taking about; and food inflation has been pretty extreme here.


Still, I'm sure when the human pumpkin expels all the people working for below minimum wage on farms, then that's going to help bring the price of groceries down....

It's a bad situation, overall. May God help us...

 

[maomao]

OK, that is WAY cheaper than here. I don't drink, but if I did, I'd be on a plane for London right now

$14US for a 16oz beer

Crikey, what state are you in? The internet says I can get a US pint of fancy craft beer in a fancy central New York bar for 9-11 dollars.

BarDough NYC - Drink Menu

bardoughnyc.com

 

[bcuster]

Isn't american beer much weaker than British beer too? I remember when I was a student in New York, I found a place that sold Newcastle Brown Ale, my fuck you up juice of the time, only to discover that they shipped a weaker version of it to the US for the American market. 'Keggers' at student parties were like drinking tea at a kid's tea party too, having to pretend you were getting drunk when you really weren't. Or perhaps they all were. I wasn't, I know that much.

Like A380 said, the US mass produced beer is weak. It used to be priced cheaply. No so any more.

Craft beers and ciders are excellent, but very expensive...

 

[gosub]

Oh my gosh, inflation is insane here. Food and drink especially so. That may be the main reason he won...

Well the alternative was Dems rewriting what things went in the inflation index

 

[bcuster]

Crikey, what state are you in? The internet says I can get a US pint of fancy craft beer in a fancy central New York bar for 9-11 dollars.

BarDough NYC - Drink Menu

bardoughnyc.com

I looked at the prices at a sports stadium I was in recently.

I haven't bought a beer in a bar in years

 

[maomao]

I looked at the prices at a sports stadium I was in recently.

I haven't bought a beer in a bar in years

I'd expect to pay more for beer at a gig, I suppose a sporting event would be similar? (I don't think I've ever been to a sporting event since I was old enough to drink beer).

 

[Yossarian]

Stadium beers tend to be way more expensive than beers elsewhere, though apparently not in Ohio

The Price of a Beer at Every NFL Stadium (2024)

Curious to see how much you might pay for a beer at your team's stadium this year? Check out the price of a brew at every NFL stadium here!

vinepair.com

 

[Elpenor]

Stadium beers for the sports events I go to are usually £7-8 plus the dreaded glass deposit of £1 or £2

I rarely bother

 

[brogdale]

Well here's a pub chain I'm now going to avoid at all costs...

Central London pub adds £2 surcharge to pints ordered after 10pm

Consumer experts say this London pub is using underhand tactics to get customers to pay nearly £10 for a pint

www.independent.co.uk

I know there are a great many issues/concerns with Martin's chain, but this is the primary reason that I do use 'spoons...

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

there'll be much disgruntlement from bar staff when people order several pints each just before 10. and altho this is due to be added to pints ordered after 10pm, i don't doubt it will be added to orders completed after 10 instead. people queuing to get in a cheaper pint but not served till after 10 won't be happy either

The pragmatic view and one I remember from the last bell. 3 pints and whisky chasers and we’ll be outside to fight ya laters

 

[PTK]

So Trump kind of had a point on prices? Fuck.

Of course he had a point. I think that the outgoing US government ought to reflect on the fact that they had to have been doing very badly indeed if people would rather vote for Trump.

 

[Maggot]

The Independent and Time Out have picked up on this story.

This central London pub is charging £2 extra for pints served after 10pm

One pint costs a whopping £9.40.

www.timeout.com

Central London pub adds £2 surcharge to pints ordered after 10pm

Consumer experts say this London pub is using underhand tactics to get customers to pay nearly £10 for a pint

www.independent.co.uk

 

[newme]

So everyone bails at 10pm? Sounds like a terrible plan.

 

[Sue]

So everyone bails at 10pm? Sounds like a terrible plan.

Presumably they're banking on people being too pissed to notice or pissed enough that they can't be bothered going elsewhere.

 

[sim667]

That's almost as much as the O2. Went there for the first time last week. £9.50 per pint, lager or pale ale.

I was at Wembley arena on Friday, £8.95 a pint

 

[vinba]

Bloody Hell.. €3 for 500ml of Pilsner Urquell in my local Irish bar in Slovakia.

 

[StoneRoad]

So, this surge pricing policy aka 'rippoff your customers' totally ignores the posted prices bars are "supposed" to display ?

Remind me why I don't go out to get pissed again ...

 

[brogdale]

I suppose the fairly standard £2.79/pint 'spoons guest beer price out here in the 'burbs is one bonus of Z4 & Z5?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

So, this surge pricing policy aka 'rippoff your customers' totally ignores the posted prices bars are "supposed" to display ?

Remind me why I don't go out to get pissed again ...

Yeah, it does feel like something that just isn't legal tbh.

 

[Epona]

The - admittedly fairly awful - Montagu Pyke was mega rammed and it felt quite odd to be sat on the site of a stage that I'd played many times before.

We (me and N) found ourselves in there on our way to a night out not long ago - we went in for a bit of a nostalgia reason, but it was a fucking horrendous noisy hellhole with no free seats, and pints weren't even the cheapest we bought that night (which was actually in the 100 Club, our ultimate destination for the evening to go to a gig).

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

All they had to do was bill it as a "special offer"

 

[Dr. Furface]

The last time I went to an O'Neill's was the one on Euston Road at least 18 months ago, and they were charging £7 for a pint even then. Never again - even without surge pricing.

We (me and N) found ourselves in there on our way to a night out not long ago - we went in for a bit of a nostalgia reason, but it was a fucking horrendous noisy hellhole with no free seats, and pints weren't even the cheapest we bought that night (which was actually in the 100 Club, our ultimate destination for the evening to go to a gig).

That reminds me - last year I went to a gig at Antwerp Sportpalais and was pleasantly surprised to find the beer was cheaper than the bars in town!

 

[pbsmooth]

I thought this was going to be a 'we're doing it for people's health to stop them drinking too much' thing, which at least would give them some attempted moral high ground. marketing fail.

 

[skyscraper101]

Yet another pub I’ll be avoiding then.

I used to love going out in London for a few drinks but when a modest night out costs more than a weekly shop, I just don’t see the value in it anymore.

 

[skyscraper101]

Apparently Yates and slug and lettuce have been on the dynamic pricing thing too according to here

It's not the first time a bar has implemented dynamic pricing. In 2023, Stonegate Group (the owner of Yates and Slug & Lettuce venues) announced it would charge 20p more per drink during busy periods.

I was in a bar in Berlin a few years ago that did the whole dynamic pricing thing but instead of being a price hike to catch people out, it was done as a theme around demand and supply so the more popular beers went up in price and the less popular ones went down, stock market style. There were even live electronic pricing boards like in a stock exchange. Obvs that made it part of the appeal so it made it more of a fun experience but this is just some sort of cunt move money grab by the sound of it .

 

[Sue]

Apparently Yates and slug and lettuce have been on the dynamic pricing thing too according to here

It's shit but 20p is far from two quid.

I was in a bar in Berlin a few years ago that did the whole dynamic pricing thing but instead of being a price hike to catch people out, it was done as a theme around demand and supply so the more popular beers went up in price and the less popular ones went down, stock market style. There were even live electronic pricing boards like in a stock exchange. Obvs that made it part of the appeal so it made it more of a fun experience but this is just some sort of cunt move money grab by the sound of it .

There's a pub in Islington that does that. I've never been as it all sounds like hard work.