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    Just got my copy of Wots Bruin. About 90% of the content is now meaningless. It probably went to print a week or so ago but I do wonder why they bothered mailing it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    Just got my copy of Wots Bruin. About 90% of the content is now meaningless. It probably went to print a week or so ago but I do wonder why they bothered mailing it out.
    Got mine too, there is one letter from another planet that made me splutter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    Got mine too, there is one letter from another planet that made me splutter.
    That's how I felt after reading the final part of the editorial. I'm not saying any more!!
    I thought I would easily recognise the letter you mention but couldn't. Is it about cask prices, the head on a beer or something else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
    That's how I felt after reading the final part of the editorial. I'm not saying any more!!
    I thought I would easily recognise the letter you mention but couldn't. Is it about cask prices, the head on a beer or something else?
    I thought it was probably the guy who thought a 20% mark up on a cask of beer was adequate for someone running a pub in London.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aqualung View Post
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    Is it about cask prices, ...?
    Yes, the Essex one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobyduck View Post
    I thought it was probably the guy who thought a 20% mark up on a cask of beer was adequate for someone running a pub in London.
    A guy who appears totally innocent of how much running a business costs and not just in London. A pub running on a 20% "mark up" would probably close within weeks, certainly after the first energy bill, rent or business rates demand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    A guy who appears totally innocent of how much running a business costs and not just in London. A pub running on a 20% "mark up" would probably close within weeks, certainly after the first energy bill, rent or business rates demand.
    Cuckoo land springs to mind.
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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    A guy who appears totally innocent of how much running a business costs and not just in London. A pub running on a 20% "mark up" would probably close within weeks, certainly after the first energy bill, rent or business rates demand.
    In fact a first for me, I just sent a letter (email) in reply to WB, the fellas obviously a clown, though I didn't put it in those words.
    I must be getting bored.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobyduck View Post
    I thought it was probably the guy who thought a 20% mark up on a cask of beer was adequate for someone running a pub in London.
    That's clearly wrong anywhere in the world, however he was making a valid point about the £4.90 price tag on Landlord. It's less than that in the local Bell where it's supposed to be a regular beer. Wetherspoons dropped Taylor's because they were charging so much more than other brewers. I was told way back in the 1970s by a Robinson tenant in Wales that they charged roughly three times what the beer costs.
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