Britain to ban happy hour discounts?

Whilst I can certainly sympathise with pub owners getting screwed ever tighter by more regulation, I think that in some scottish towns people have just got sick of the behaviour of drunks. Whilst some of them may be drinking take aways from off licenses and supermarkets, the majority of them are coming out of pubs. The law is supposed to be that you don't serve people who are visibly drunk - how any of these happy hour and BOGOF promotions fit with that is a mystery. They might be not that drunk when they buy them, but they soon will be after 10 vodka red bulls at a pound each. I feel irresponsible pub owners have themselves to blame for these regulations.

our first happy hour is tonight... vodka cokes for £1. oops.

that said, i've only introduced it since i was fully updated on the new laws; i figure, we've got 6 months to raise some hell (and some cash) :D

Good luck with it. I don't personally have a problem with Happy Hours - I've been to plenty. I guess it's just a question of managing behaviour of people who are encouraged to drink as much as they can before the price goes back up.

yes and no, our prices are pretty cheap anyway and that doesnt always work.
i guess one of the bigger differences is that if people get too drunk and try and cause trouble, its IN the hostel, rather than out in public. hell, our bar is open till 5am on weekends, everything open to the public is closed by 3 (except in august and over hogmanay), so we're already almost a law unto ourselves.

it could be an interesting weekend here in the bar - last weekend resulted in nudity, tequila being poured into peoples mouths, dancing on the tables and bar. we're as full as we were last weekend, happy hour up and running, its one of the spanish girls birthdays so she's throwing a party in the bar and one of our cleaners is DJing (he's actually really good, travels about once a month to various parts of europe to play).

should be fun :eek: