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So there's this nice little brew pub that I haven't been to in a while, but it was blustery with fallness (finally) and I popped in to have a bowl of chile for lunch. I'm washing it down with this nice red ale that they do and I see a freight train lumbering by.
"Sweet!" I thinks to myself, 'cause this brewhouse has a great promo - if you're drinking one of their in house beers and a train goes by, they give you a freebie. Makes sense - it encourages people to drink their beers instead of the big boy's bottles, and makes a customer happy on the cheap.
Well, you wouldn't be reading this if that were so for all customers. Previously when I'd lucked into a train passing, the waitrons would swing into action and start dropping off pints. Not so today. So I asked if they still did it. Both the bartenders looked a little dour and said "We don't do that anymore, it's 'problematic' says management."
A little gentle prying (over my second beer - equally tasty, free or not) reveals that customers WERE FUSSING OVER THE FREE BEER!!! Whining if they didn't get a second one if two trains went by while they were there. Apparently the rule is one free beer per in house drinking customer per visit. Fine by me - it's your beer, give away as much or as little as you want. Or whining when the freebie didn't apply to happy hour in the bar. That's right, they are already getting one free with every one they purchased (double bubble, buy one get one, whatever you want to call it) but here comes the whaaaambulance because they don't get yet ANOTHER free beer
And apparently this happened long enough and often enough that management finally said "Ok, if it is a hassle to give away beer, we'll stop doing it."
Thanks mass of sucky customers for ruining it for everybody.
Dipwads.
"Sweet!" I thinks to myself, 'cause this brewhouse has a great promo - if you're drinking one of their in house beers and a train goes by, they give you a freebie. Makes sense - it encourages people to drink their beers instead of the big boy's bottles, and makes a customer happy on the cheap.
Well, you wouldn't be reading this if that were so for all customers. Previously when I'd lucked into a train passing, the waitrons would swing into action and start dropping off pints. Not so today. So I asked if they still did it. Both the bartenders looked a little dour and said "We don't do that anymore, it's 'problematic' says management."
A little gentle prying (over my second beer - equally tasty, free or not) reveals that customers WERE FUSSING OVER THE FREE BEER!!! Whining if they didn't get a second one if two trains went by while they were there. Apparently the rule is one free beer per in house drinking customer per visit. Fine by me - it's your beer, give away as much or as little as you want. Or whining when the freebie didn't apply to happy hour in the bar. That's right, they are already getting one free with every one they purchased (double bubble, buy one get one, whatever you want to call it) but here comes the whaaaambulance because they don't get yet ANOTHER free beer
And apparently this happened long enough and often enough that management finally said "Ok, if it is a hassle to give away beer, we'll stop doing it."
Thanks mass of sucky customers for ruining it for everybody.
Dipwads.
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