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Price Structure In Spoons.

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Always amazed me supping in this chain boozer. Last week in Manc it was £ 2-89, in Huddersfield it was £ 2-15 and in Barrow it was £ 1- 69. all for the same brand of lager.

Always amazed me supping in this chain boozer. Last week in Manc it was £ 2-89, in Huddersfield it was £ 2-15 and in Barrow it was £ 1- 69. all for the same brand of lager.

and prob still the cheepest pint in that town

Suppose they have very different overheads in each location

 

Some of them are in real nice buildings, some are slightly less salubrious

Suppose they have very different overheads in each location

 

Some of them are in real nice buildings, some are slightly less salubrious

I think Whitt is closer they make themselves as cheap as they need to but no cheaper, if pub next door in Manc is charging £4 a pint why sell it for £1.80 ?

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Suppose they have very different overheads in each location

 

Some of them are in real nice buildings, some are slightly less salubrious

I agree, the one in Manchester is always full of pissheads supping ale out of plastic pots, Huddersfield was full of Bolton anyway, and in Barrow is near the station to escape the place.

Suppose they have very different overheads in each location

 

Some of them are in real nice buildings, some are slightly less salubrious

think he (martin) owns most of the buildings or he did when he started off

 

big old rundown places bingo halls old cinemas no one wanted

Good business model, decent management, another 200 new pubs planned, all in all probably a better punt than an African mining company.

think he (martin) owns most of the buildings or he did when he started off

 

big old rundown places bingo halls old cinemas no one wanted

the one in llandudno is spectacular, its in the what used to be the theatre/music hall. 

Steadiest price you'll ever find in a Spoons is 500ml bottles of Staropramen. Never been less than £2.79, but yet to see it for more than £3.09

The one in Harrogate is a nice one

The one in Harrogate is a nice one

Yep quite classy that one.

 

Cheapest one I've been in was Chorley. Some beers less than £2 a pint.

I was in the one in Todmorden last night.

 

Pendle Witch at £1.99 a pint.

Ended up in Spoons in Reading - couldn't grumble at £2.15 a pint down there.

my favourite is definitely the elephant and castle one

The one in Sandbach is a nice one.

I was in the one in Todmorden last night.

 

Pendle Witch at £1.99 a pint.

 

So that's why its so busy when I drive past from the station mid to late afternoons on a weekday. During that balmy two weeks at the end of Sept/ start of Oct, the beer garden at the back was packed.

I was in the one in Todmorden last night.

 

Pendle Witch at £1.99 a pint.

 

Same drop is £2.19 in Spoons in Wigan

 

Great drink

think one of the biggest is that big bastard in cardiff

think one of the biggest is that big bastard in cardiff

 

Manchester has the biggest.

So that's why its so busy when I drive past from the station mid to late afternoons on a weekday. During that balmy two weeks at the end of Sept/ start of Oct, the beer garden at the back was packed.

 

Trouble is the beer garden is three floors from the bar, so you end up sobering up on the walk between pints.

 

Pendle Witch is £1.65 in the George & Dragon (non Spoons) in Leigh btw. JSL.

Trouble is the beer garden is three floors from the bar, so you end up sobering up on the walk between pints.

 

 

 

It isn't.

 

There's a bar on that top level too.

i was told the pricing was dependent on whether it was classed as a city or town location and then it worked off a radius from the centre of that location outwards with a decreasing price structure with the benchmark price being always less than its competitors in the main city/town centre location.

 

Spoons in edinburgh centre are £2.95 a pint of lager go 3/4 of a mile out of the centre classified as "non city centre" and price drops to £1.99.

 

basic economics supply and demand i guess

It isn't.

 

There's a bar on that top level too.

 

That'll be the difference to my only visit being at 10am on a Saturday morning :thumbsup:

The one in walkden has been voted the best in the country

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That'll be the difference to my only visit being at 10am on a Saturday morning :thumbsup:

Ale Trail to the Shay watching Leigh. :)

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