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Post by nantwichstokie on Feb 7, 2018 15:04:53 GMT
having been a publican for over 30 years, love and respect the trade, and been in Cambridge for all that time, it saddens me that you have a licence. I think I can gather why you've said this, but elaborate. I think I know as well but can't be certain until we have full disclosure...
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Post by xnfourt on Feb 7, 2018 17:00:13 GMT
Can we have glass glasses...not plastic..Please
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Post by chamberlain on Feb 7, 2018 17:51:22 GMT
Maybe the pubs would be more popular if they let the punters sniff the pipe cleaning fluid? I love pubs but pipe cleaning doesn’t concern me
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Post by elystokie on Feb 7, 2018 18:09:24 GMT
Maybe the pubs would be more popular if they let the punters sniff the pipe cleaning fluid? I love pubs but pipe cleaning doesn’t concern me It was a (admittedly a bit obscure) reference to the possible state of mind of one of the posters on this thread. Coat, hat, umbrella all fully utilised
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Post by chamberlain on Feb 7, 2018 19:32:31 GMT
I love pubs but pipe cleaning doesn’t concern me It was a (admittedly a bit obscure) reference to the possible state of mind of one of the posters on this thread. Coat, hat, umbrella all fully utilised I know mate
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Post by charmainejacey on Feb 8, 2018 11:22:38 GMT
Can we have glass glasses...not plastic..Please Liciencing has made the pub use plastic glasses on a match day at home 2 hours before and after the game for a 6 month period we are into the 6th month now i have worked my magic contacting liciencing im awaiting a answer today or tommorow to give the green light for Saturday worst case senario it will be plastic from 1pm but im expecting to be able to use glasses all day and night just to remind you the dj will be starting from 11am thank you
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Post by christhepotter on Feb 8, 2018 11:45:34 GMT
Isn’t it Georgia Brown bodes well if u can’t get the name right 😱🤣🤣
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Post by wrightspies on Feb 8, 2018 11:49:44 GMT
I'll be in Stoke all day. Might pop in if it looks half decent.
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Post by stantheman on Feb 8, 2018 16:31:31 GMT
For those who are not familiar with where you are located, can you give an address?
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Post by werrington on Feb 8, 2018 16:42:53 GMT
For those who are not familiar with where you are located, can you give an address? It’s jyst above the old greys corner mate as the road bends around to split for either Bucknall or hartshill
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2018 16:43:45 GMT
123-127 Church St, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1DB
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Post by boshinthekipper on Feb 9, 2018 20:12:53 GMT
Will you have the football on pal?
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Post by entropy92 on Feb 9, 2018 21:28:11 GMT
Will you have the football on pal? Read the original post, he says it has all the sports channels on. If your asking if the Stoke game is being shown illegally, then wakeup.
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Post by boshinthekipper on Feb 9, 2018 21:46:54 GMT
Will you have the football on pal? Read the original post, he says it has all the sports channels on. If your asking if the Stoke game is being shown illegally, then wakeup. Wake up. It says Stoke dvds.
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Post by entropy92 on Feb 9, 2018 21:50:43 GMT
Read the original post, he says it has all the sports channels on. If your asking if the Stoke game is being shown illegally, then wakeup. Wake up. It says Stoke dvds. You wake up, and learn to read! For before the Brighton game the pub also has all sports channels if there is a big game before or after stoke thank you
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Post by GeneralFaye on Feb 9, 2018 21:54:50 GMT
Why the hostility?! Fucking hell.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Feb 9, 2018 22:01:51 GMT
There really are some nasty, aggressive pricks around.
Good luck mate.
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Post by entropy92 on Feb 9, 2018 22:04:43 GMT
If thats aimed at me then i dont know why? I wasnt being aggressive. Some people are just thick
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Post by woza40 on Feb 9, 2018 22:11:24 GMT
Children welcome pub in stoke town,brilliant! I will be there with three of my kids before the match. Hope you've got some fruit shoots Danny?
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Post by boshinthekipper on Feb 9, 2018 22:21:02 GMT
Wake up. It says Stoke dvds. You wake up, and learn to read! For before the Brighton game the pub also has all sports channels if there is a big game before or after stoke thank you and it does. Well done. Nice 1.
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Post by woodstein on Feb 9, 2018 22:31:20 GMT
having been a publican for over 30 years, love and respect the trade, and been in Cambridge for all that time, it saddens me that you have a licence. What beers do you keep I also spent my working life in the licensed trade I think anybody trying to improve a failing pub deserves a bit of appreciation Especially as the pub appears close to a spoons pub which has done more damage to the trade then anything in the last 20 years I agreed with you at first but to blame Wetherspoons for other pubs failing is unfair. The pubco's have ruined the traditionally run pub and prices put the drinkers off. If Spoons do good ale/drink at good prices and put a bit of history back into a premises that's not bad. It works in some areas as other pubs lower their prices and then do better
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Post by wagsastokie on Feb 10, 2018 5:14:54 GMT
What beers do you keep I also spent my working life in the licensed trade I think anybody trying to improve a failing pub deserves a bit of appreciation Especially as the pub appears close to a spoons pub which has done more damage to the trade then anything in the last 20 years I agreed with you at first but to blame Wetherspoons for other pubs failing is unfair. The pubco's have ruined the traditionally run pub and prices put the drinkers off. If Spoons do good ale/drink at good prices and put a bit of history back into a premises that's not bad. It works in some areas as other pubs lower their prices and then do better Maybe I should not blame spoons but the system But that is not easy If you had seen hard working people lose their livelihood their house sometimes there family There only crime only being allowed to buy their beer at the price spoons sell it for You may find that it may colour your judgement slightly As for in some areas in makes other pubs drop there prices it often leads to pub closures leading to as many job losses as they allegedly create And just to clarify I’m not a victim of the for said organisation
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 9:27:53 GMT
What beers do you keep I also spent my working life in the licensed trade I think anybody trying to improve a failing pub deserves a bit of appreciation Especially as the pub appears close to a spoons pub which has done more damage to the trade then anything in the last 20 years I agreed with you at first but to blame Wetherspoons for other pubs failing is unfair. The pubco's have ruined the traditionally run pub and prices put the drinkers off. If Spoons do good ale/drink at good prices and put a bit of history back into a premises that's not bad. It works in some areas as other pubs lower their prices and then do better The pub chains have to shoulder blame but it's not solely their fault. I managed a pub in the early 2000s. We sold Stella at £2.45 a pint. Costings worked out it was costing nearly £2 to put it on the bar. 45p profit is no way to make money. Minimum wage has increased since then to the point where employing someone over 24 means selling pints at £4-5 to make a quid or less in profit. There is just no money in pub drinking anymore. You always needed to sell volume, prices put people off, supermarkets sell it cheap...people stopped drinking in pubs
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Post by samwidge on Feb 10, 2018 9:56:01 GMT
Good luck mate. Hope its full and everyone has a great time and behaves 👍
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Post by entropy92 on Feb 10, 2018 9:59:20 GMT
I agreed with you at first but to blame Wetherspoons for other pubs failing is unfair. The pubco's have ruined the traditionally run pub and prices put the drinkers off. If Spoons do good ale/drink at good prices and put a bit of history back into a premises that's not bad. It works in some areas as other pubs lower their prices and then do better The pub chains have to shoulder blame but it's not solely their fault. I managed a pub in the early 2000s. We sold Stella at £2.45 a pint. Costings worked out it was costing nearly £2 to put it on the bar. 45p profit is no way to make money. Minimum wage has increased since then to the point where employing someone over 24 means selling pints at £4-5 to make a quid or less in profit. There is just no money in pub drinking anymore. You always needed to sell volume, prices put people off, supermarkets sell it cheap...people stopped drinking in pubs I always wondered what the margins were so thanks for that. Im guilty of stopping drinking in pubs myself because of the cost. I used to go in my local 2 or 3 times a week untill a few years ago. Now its more like once a month. Like you say, supermarkets sell it so cheap these days its hard to ignore when u can get 4 half decent cans of lager from aldi for under 3 quid and a bottle of vodka for a tenner. Add to that the ability to be able to watch every Stoke match from your arm chair it only becomes a difficult choice if you know your mates are going to the pub. Not like before when you would just turn up at a pub on the off chance there might be people you know in there.
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Post by wagsastokie on Feb 10, 2018 10:15:08 GMT
The pub The original social media you learnt the local news you chatted to your mates Made new mates If ever you needed a tool or a part or a job doing down to your local somebody could get hold of almost anything
Lost your job Friday down the pub 9 times out of 10 you would have a start Monday
Now peoples lives are conducted online and they can live there life from the arm chair Progress it’s called
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Post by GeneralFaye on Feb 10, 2018 10:53:08 GMT
Will the Spurs v Arsenal game be on?.. if so I'll pop in.
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Post by elystokie on Feb 10, 2018 12:30:59 GMT
The pub chains have to shoulder blame but it's not solely their fault. I managed a pub in the early 2000s. We sold Stella at £2.45 a pint. Costings worked out it was costing nearly £2 to put it on the bar. 45p profit is no way to make money. Minimum wage has increased since then to the point where employing someone over 24 means selling pints at £4-5 to make a quid or less in profit. There is just no money in pub drinking anymore. You always needed to sell volume, prices put people off, supermarkets sell it cheap...people stopped drinking in pubs I always wondered what the margins were so thanks for that. Im guilty of stopping drinking in pubs myself because of the cost. I used to go in my local 2 or 3 times a week untill a few years ago. Now its more like once a month. Like you say, supermarkets sell it so cheap these days its hard to ignore when u can get 4 half decent cans of lager from aldi for under 3 quid and a bottle of vodka for a tenner. Add to that the ability to be able to watch every Stoke match from your arm chair it only becomes a difficult choice if you know your mates are going to the pub. Not like before when you would just turn up at a pub on the off chance there might be people you know in there. Its all very sad, think my Dad's generation had the best of it, he was out with crib, dominoes, seeing mates etc 3 or 4 times a week for many years. Cheap supermarket booze has had a major impact but the smoking ban, a million telly channels, social media and it's going to take summat huge to turn it around I know a bloke who was in a band that used to play pubs and clubs around the Stoke area, reckoned the smoking ban just killed it stone dead.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2018 12:58:59 GMT
The pub chains have to shoulder blame but it's not solely their fault. I managed a pub in the early 2000s. We sold Stella at £2.45 a pint. Costings worked out it was costing nearly £2 to put it on the bar. 45p profit is no way to make money. Minimum wage has increased since then to the point where employing someone over 24 means selling pints at £4-5 to make a quid or less in profit. There is just no money in pub drinking anymore. You always needed to sell volume, prices put people off, supermarkets sell it cheap...people stopped drinking in pubs I always wondered what the margins were so thanks for that. Im guilty of stopping drinking in pubs myself because of the cost. I used to go in my local 2 or 3 times a week untill a few years ago. Now its more like once a month. Like you say, supermarkets sell it so cheap these days its hard to ignore when u can get 4 half decent cans of lager from aldi for under 3 quid and a bottle of vodka for a tenner. Add to that the ability to be able to watch every Stoke match from your arm chair it only becomes a difficult choice if you know your mates are going to the pub. Not like before when you would just turn up at a pub on the off chance there might be people you know in there. Me to. As mentioned above the smoking ban didn't help. As an aside draught soft drinks were the worst. You were tied generally to buying your bag in box syrup (bibs) from the brewery. You'd be lucky to make 10p selling a pint of Pepsi for 2 quid.
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Post by Squeekster on Feb 10, 2018 19:15:29 GMT
It was the same as usual today a bit quiet apart from the kids getting arrested by the police.
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