Free CocaCola in pub

Thegalwayman · 08-12-2018 10:58am

Sure a tin a lilt costs about 25cent with the deals in the supermarkets

Del2005 · 08-12-2018 11:08am

rubadub wrote: »

It would be very rare to see it for 2euro a bottle though. It is not just VAT anymore, there is the sugar levy/tax thing too.

4.10 in 200ml bottles works out 11.64 a pint. Or at least 3 bottles to fill a pint glass, I hate this idea that 2 bottles and a rake of watering down ice is "a pint".

If I owned a pub it would be cans of coke, or a cheaper version poured from a 2L bottle, maybe still get a 200ml incase some freak wants it, but charge accordingly, likely more than the can. Might even get some own brand stuff in. Cans are 37.5cent in tesco at the moment in multipacks. These likely state "from a mulitpack not for resale individually" on them. This has no legal bearing at all. So I would stock a few legit retail singular cans too and price them accordingly, so if I do get some whinger I can give them the expensive option that they insist upon.

What I can never understand is why publicans here don't use splash guns like the USA. No bother with bottles, better for the environment and no need to buy cheap rotten cola.

Adyx · 08-12-2018 3:32pm

Del2005 wrote: »

What I can never understand is why publicans here don't use splash guns like the USA. No bother with bottles, better for the environment and no need to buy cheap rotten cola.

Splash guns need gas, cooling and a water supply. Which means they're taking up a huge amount of space in a bar or they're taking up space in the beer lines. As well as that, the carbonation is very poor quality even if you do have a quality syrup.

Snotty · 10-12-2018 12:51am

Del2005 wrote: »

What I can never understand is why publicans here don't use splash guns like the USA. No bother with bottles, better for the environment and no need to buy cheap rotten cola.

Water quality is 99% the reason, you need 100% consistant pressure and what happens if the water goes off for a few hours, which it does regularly. You are now using alot more which means bigger and more costly filtration systems, that are contracted by volume which of course is increasing.

Muahahaha · 10-12-2018 6:53pm

Adyx wrote: »

Splash guns need gas, cooling and a water supply. Which means they're taking up a huge amount of space in a bar or they're taking up space in the beer lines. As well as that, the carbonation is very poor quality even if you do have a quality syrup.

No they are not - a splash set up saves space- both on the shelves on bar by not having bottled Coke and in the store rooms. They also save a publican costs by not having the need for staff to stock shelves, take large deliveries of crates into store rooms or sort empty bottles back into their crates for collection. Publicans should realise how much effort goes into moving stock like this around the place compared to just having a couple of kegs in the cold room and gas outside it. Spash is far more efficient on labour and space than stocking individual bottles.

Plenty of pubs around the world use splash systems without problems. McDonalds have done it for decades now, Weatherspoons have it too. I doubt these companies use it if it isnt better than serving individual bottles which need to be stored, stocked and then sorted and then returned.

Snotty · 10-12-2018 8:23pm

Both huge companies, smaller independent cannot implement such a system with huge outlay.

I love the way people assume they know best and obviously the people who have worked in the industry all their lives don't know anything.

McMurphy · 10-12-2018 8:34pm

Snotty wrote: »

Both huge companies, smaller independent cannot implement such a system with huge outlay.

I love the way people assume they know best and obviously the people who have worked in the industry all their lives don't know anything.

Falling numbers actually going to their establishments attest to this in fairness.

Snotty · 10-12-2018 9:41pm

Genius, love it

Muahahaha · 10-12-2018 10:01pm

Snotty wrote: »

Both huge companies, smaller independent cannot implement such a system with huge outlay.

I love the way people assume they know best and obviously the people who have worked in the industry all their lives don't know anything.

Of course they could, Ive seen lots of pubs with splash systems for soft drinks abroad, it is not rocket science and it saves a publican labour costs over serving individual bottles as they do now.

Rubberchikken · 10-12-2018 10:07pm

wasnt the vintners assoc one if the first to come out whining when the latest drink/drive limit was passed?

Snotty · 10-12-2018 10:14pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

Of course they could, Ive seen lots of pubs with splash systems for soft drinks abroad, it is not rocket science and it saves a publican labour costs over serving individual bottles as they do now.

In fairness, you have no idea what you are talkng about. I worked in the industry for years, out of it now, we had a huge operation and I had a POC to implement a carbonated soda gun system in 3 bars, we couldn't do it due to the water quality, to compensate for that required €75k investment for each bar, this is completely separate to the actually system, that was just for a water storage and filtration system.
But of course, you know better.

mikeym · 10-12-2018 10:18pm

Del2005 wrote: »

What I can never understand is why publicans here don't use splash guns like the USA. No bother with bottles, better for the environment and no need to buy cheap rotten cola.

I had a Pepsi which was from a splash gun and it was rotten.

It was in Weatherspoons in Dun Laoghaire.

Muahahaha · 10-12-2018 10:27pm

Well now you are extrapolating your bad water problems to the whole country, that certainly isnt the case for everywhere. And if the water quality was so bad what were you serving customers who wanted a glass of water with their meal?

Free CocaCola in pub

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