Thread: Cost of a Beer

You're missing the major component..

You like making $40+ an hour..

Well bar staff get $30-$40 an hour now.

Means your beer/wine/spirit is served for a price.

Yep and that is pretty much why we don't drink out much any more. Just to expensive. You get say 6 of you go out and it is common now to cost $60-$100 for a round and it always seems the ones not paying want to drink top shelf beer or spirits.
I fully agree, how can you charge $7 say for a Carlton Dry when a carton can be bought for $35 low and $40 high at a bottle shop so the pubs would be getting it for this or less. So $1-50 - $1-80. They cant use refrigeration as a reason as you can buy cold cartons. Yes I understand costs such as staff etc but $5-50 to $9-50 mark up, really? Same with spirits pre mixed.

Originally Posted by jimr1

Hi Craig , yes your right about the cost of alcohol at any Casino , I suppose every business has a right to make a profit . and I don't have a problem with that . I expect It in smaller country pubs , that don't have big turnovers to charge a bit more , lots of them need to . In the case of the big boy's were the turnover is huge , It makes me wonder why they crank It up . I also except that we have a chose , No one forces anyone to go to a Casino , and no one says you have to buy a drink . I have been lucky I travel overseas usually twice a year , and have been doing so for many years . One of the things I like to do when away is have a beer . Here in Oz we pay so much more than many country's , but like so many other things here we have sold all our big Brewery's to overseas corporations , and I'm starting to wonder if that is having any bearing on cost , plus of course the Tax man wants his little bit !!.. cheers Jim .