What would you do to help the pub industry?

Sky Sports/TNT/Amazon Prime/Kerry Packer's World Series etc. is hugely prohibitive for pubs. My geographical local is probably no bigger than the main room in Mary D's, Sky alone want £5,300 per year for the privilege. That's a lot of pints on a medium sized housing estate where no fucker is going out on a Monday night to watch Leeds v Everton.
 
TinFoilHat said:
Bring back pub theme nights such as Steak and Tits.

Craft and Cock for the ladies.

The "woke" pubs could balance it out with Puffs and a Pint.

All bases covered.
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What about the "furries" and LGBTQXYZ's? It was only 10 years ago I met a girl (early/mid 20s) in the taxi queue clutching a bottle of cheap champagne for being best in class in getting her charms out in a fun pub...on a Thursday night no less.
 
C90 said:
What about the "furries" and LGBTQXYZ's? It was only 10 years ago I met a girl (early/mid 20s) in the taxi queue clutching a bottle of cheap champagne for being best in class in getting her charms out in a fun pub...on a Thursday night no less.
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Pics ?
 
1. Make draught Bass compulsory in all pubs.
2. Knit & Natter sessions in the day (or Stitch & Bitch as those in the know refer to it).
3. Bingo on a Tuesday, but put up the coffee and tea prices for the night, cos most of em only buy one flippin drink and make it last all night
4. On that note, put some really salty sausages and other nibbles on the bar to parch the punters.
5. Convert the back room to a cinema night once a week, showing a series of 18 certificate classics.
6. Show the footy.
7. Pub quiz, but two different ones, not just one to cater for geriatrics all about 60s music and 70s tv.
8. Offer Guinness and Murphy’s
8. Restrict food/restaurant to one room (if you can get a decent chef that is), and charge enough to subsidise other aspects of the pub.
10. Have I mentioned Bass?
 
chesterbells said:
1. Make draught Bass compulsory in all pubs.
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At last a sensible suggestion.

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chesterbells said:
1. Make draught Bass compulsory in all pubs.
2. Knit & Natter sessions in the day (or Stitch & Bitch as those in the know refer to it).
3. Bingo on a Tuesday, but put up the coffee and tea prices for the night, cos most of em only buy one flippin drink and make it last all night
4. On that note, put some really salty sausages and other nibbles on the bar to parch the punters.
5. Convert the back room to a cinema night once a week, showing a series of 18 certificate classics.
6. Show the footy.
7. Pub quiz, but two different ones, not just one to cater for geriatrics all about 60s music and 70s tv.
8. Offer Guinness and Murphy’s
8. Restrict food/restaurant to one room (if you can get a decent chef that is), and charge enough to subsidise other aspects of the pub.
10. Have I mentioned Bass?
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Can I have Estrella Damm compulsory as the Lager choice please - that f**kin Madri red sh*te thats popped up (which no-one in Spain has EVER heard of) is f**king everywhere now, rag supporting bastards!.
Coffee needs to be barred unless its Nescafe and the hot water straight out of a Qooker Tap or an old fashioned Urn - I can't stand having to wait whilst the one member of staff waits for the melt dweeb decides if they want oat milk or mocha or caramel of some other girly concoction which should be just straight red-carded!
 
C90 said:
What about the "furries" and LGBTQXYZ's? It was only 10 years ago I met a girl (early/mid 20s) in the taxi queue clutching a bottle of cheap champagne for being best in class in getting her charms out in a fun pub...on a Thursday night no less.
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I was struggling with this.

I'm friends with some Pups players and will ask them what they'd recommend.
 
Grassland Blue said:
My plan would be to tax the beer which is sold in supermarkets more highly than that sold in pubs. I would hope that that such a measure would discourage the drink at home brigade in favour of those going out for a pint or three.
Thoughts?
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That’s definitely a good start.

The demise of the pub was also greatly exacerbated by Monopolies and Mergers Commission’s ‘Beer Orders’ getting rid of tied houses in the 90s. The original intent was laudable, the big brewers couldn’t own and operate the biggest and best pubs and tie them to their beers. But the unintended consequence was that it meant loads of huge boozers ended up in the hands of real estate and venture capital sharks who were only interested in a quick profit and a great many, formerly grand, boozers got asset-stripped and eventually shut down.
 
roman totale said:
That’s definitely a good start.

The demise of the pub was also greatly exacerbated by Monopolies and Mergers Commission’s ‘Beer Orders’ getting rid of tied houses in the 90s. The original intent was laudable, the big brewers couldn’t own and operate the biggest and best pubs and tie them to their beers. But the unintended consequence was that it meant loads of huge boozers ended up in the hands of real estate and venture capital sharks who were only interested in a quick profit and a great many, formerly grand, boozers got asset-stripped and eventually shut down.
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A repeated story in so many areas these days. It's a problem in most developed countries. When there are no more easy gains, investment stops being about growing something and starts being about extracting existing wealth. Investors become leeches instead of, well, investors.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
A repeated story in so many areas these days. It's a problem in most developed countries. When there are no more easy gains, investment stops being about growing something and starts being about extracting existing wealth. Investors become leeches instead of, well, investors.
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Yep. I worked for one of those big brewers back then and we told them that’s exactly what would happen, but it fell on deaf ears. Too many Tories rubbing their hands…
 
Drink more but only in the summer months I like to hibernate in winter being a foc.
 
dickie davies said:
I'm of an age and financial security that I should be saying to the Mrs, "let's go out for an early doors beer"
But I'm very fucking reluctant to pay £14 for two drinks
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That is me exactly. We have no kids and I used to drag her down to the pub 6 nights a week when we were younger.
Now it’s once a week to go to a random pub with no affinity to and a load of kids running around which has definitely increased since the smoking ban and we then invariably pick up a rubbish takeaway.
It tends to be midweek and no change out of about £60 for what usually is a very average night.
I have also weaned myself off real ale to the chemical waste stuff that is called Lager, where there is very little difference between tinned and draft. .
Kronenberg at 80p a can poured by my good self , a lovely garden with no kids running about and a nice tea in the oven whilst we have a chat over how the day has gone…. and no nominated driver required, a bit of a no brainer as to which is the best night.
 
Dogs need banning. I was in a wine bar in Uton. Knob heads sat there watching their beloved spaniel sit on the table licking it's arse. They finish their drinks and leave.
Young couple come in and order a massive charcuterie board and a bottle of wine. Waiter comes out and puts the food down on the shitty arse spaniel table and they tucked in.
I left
 
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