The Halcyon Bar Division Street

[Hook 10]

Originally posted by goldenfleece

Agree. bars are NOT night clubs....why charge at all? Deterrent to riff-raff? Hardly.....Selective door policy? Hardly....

Making more money? Er...yes we have hit the nail on the head Mr Bar Manager Sir......GREED!!!!

 

Again, PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT and fleecing as many people as possible.

 

I don't think it's nessecerily profit.

 

At somewhere I used to work we charged on the door when we had a live band on, because it cost us money to pay the band - therefore it cost us more to open on that night. In order to ensure that our costs on drinks, food etc remained the same no matter what night, or what was going on we elected to charge on the door.

 

We thought, and when we reevalulated a few months on, it was the right thing to do, that people would rather pay £2 on the door, than have to pay and extra 25p on every vodka and coke they bought, or every pint... etc etc.

[Tony 10]

It isn't the bars that have come up with the ideas of charging.

 

It was once the bright idea of the licencing magistrates to require bars to charge people to get in if they were to grant a late licence. From memory you are also required to have a ticket booth, a dance floor and food.

 

The new law isn't so prescriptive, but I'm a bit behind in how it is being implemented.

[genesiscouch 10]

Why is the different strokes for different folks...tiered pricing/exclusivity concept so hard to grasp?

 

If you don't like a £3.70 G&T simply don't go to Halcyon. Some people think that £4 a drink is too much and therefore they stick to their local or where ever is offering 2 shooters for £1 or some such. Some people think that £4 a drink is good value because it's got quality ingredients, fair enough. Some people think that £10 a drink is good value because it keeps out the riff raff.

 

The point is at the end of the day you don't see track suits in a bar where the cosmo is £15 and you don't see suits in a bar where they sell distilled through old socks vodka.

 

Trying to justify value in a drink (from either end of the spectrum) is mad.