Drink Prices at the Keepmoat

by **yorkie64red** Thu 26 Jul - 20:26:13

Looks like they have finished with the £2.50 a pint ...its gonna be £3.40 a pint for Lager or Bitter.. Shocked

http://www.doncasterroversfc.co.uk/news/article/tasty-style-off-the-field-for-rovers-266477.aspx?pageValue=2

by pkt_drfc Thu 26 Jul - 21:45:13

Price of that food looks like i will be sticking to my KFC and bringing a bottle of tap water in

by Upwind Thu 26 Jul - 22:05:28

It doesn't exactly look like 'excellent' value to me, so I'm glad it's an "on-going process".

I would have thought they would have made the prices very competitive - at least to start with - so they increase the overall sales and attract people to buy at the ground. I agree that quality comes into it - but when you can buy a pie from Asda for less than a quid, £3 to buy one at the ground does seem a bit steep - it had better be a fooking good pie for that price...............

by **LEEDSLAD/03/01/2010** Thu 26 Jul - 22:19:25

£2.50 was really fucking good tbf

by VixDRFC Thu 26 Jul - 22:42:09

pkt_drfc wrote:Price of that food looks like i will be sticking to my KFC and bringing a bottle of tap water in

You're welcome to join us round town first for burger and a pint, much better value than KFC Wink

by **LEEDSLAD/03/01/2010** Thu 26 Jul - 22:47:44

Upwind wrote:It doesn't exactly look like 'excellent' value to me, so I'm glad it's an "on-going process".

I would have thought they would have made the prices very competitive - at least to start with - so they increase the overall sales and attract people to buy at the ground. I agree that quality comes into it - but when you can buy a pie from Asda for less than a quid, £3 to buy one at the ground does seem a bit steep - it had better be a fooking good pie for that price...............

should see our pie and a pint offer for £6.50

OFFER

by pkt_drfc Thu 26 Jul - 22:55:13

VixDRFC wrote:

You're welcome to join us round town first for burger and a pint, much better value than KFC

Ah but you see i am not much of a drinker to be honest Shocked

by VixDRFC Thu 26 Jul - 23:02:45

pkt_drfc wrote:

Ah but you see i am not much of a drinker to be honest

Yeah right! Anyway, you can always get a pint of coke with the burger

by Silent Majority Fri 27 Jul - 18:19:09

The £5 pie and a pint offer is still on, the £2.50 per bottle offer is still on and the kiddies lunch box offer is still on.

by **yorkie64red** Fri 27 Jul - 18:34:08

Silent Majority wrote:The £5 pie and a pint offer is still on, the £2.50 per bottle offer is still on and the kiddies lunch box offer is still on.

Trouble is it was the £2.50 a pint offer that would get us into the bar...not interested in bottles i'm afraid we drink pints and i'm not paying almost £7 for two pints of Carlsberg which i can get in town for aroud £3 for two..shame as i would love to support the bar but the way things are i want value for money..and i'm not alone in that i know a few people who drink John Smiths which you can't get in bottles who will have to use the Premier inn lakeside bar or Cheswolds..

by **yorkie64red** Fri 27 Jul - 18:41:33

I would also like to add i don't expect wetherspoons or Goose prices but i do expect them to be competitive with pubs in the area and for me i won't pay over £3 a pint full stop wherever it is..

by Silent Majority Fri 27 Jul - 20:44:43

I do understand. But we have to start somewhere and then we take it on to the face-to-face and on-line forums for the resolution to this under our 'In Rovers We Trust' campaign.

Don't forget we choose the items we want to see changed not the club.

by Filo Fri 27 Jul - 21:11:49

A good start would be to make the Beer prices competitive with the local pubs, and recoup to money on other things, I think beer gets a lot of people into the concourses, if the beer prices are not competitive then folk will stay in a pub and probably have a bite to eat there

by **yorkie64red** Fri 27 Jul - 21:16:10

Filo wrote:A good start would be to make the Beer prices competitive with the local pubs, and recoup to money on other things, I think beer gets a lot of people into the concourses, if the beer prices are not competitive then folk will stay in a pub and probably have a bite to eat there

Thats right...people didn't use the keepmoat bar before because of the prices...they were lowered and people used it so for the club on the eve of taking over the ground to put those prices back up to a sky high price is for me an own goal...i love to support the club in anyway i can but i hate been ripped off...but thats just my opinion..time will tell soon enough if people start to use it or not..

by Silent Majority Fri 27 Jul - 21:30:18

Yes we know all of that, and I've told them umpteen times, but the response is always the same, pubs are open 7 days a week and 12 hours a day. The Keepmoat is open once a fortnight for a couple of hours before kick-off and for 10 minutes at half time.

And as for sky high prices, have you been to a pub in London recently? £6 a pint there. Evil or Very Mad

by Upwind Fri 27 Jul - 21:48:51

Silent Majority wrote:Yes we know all of that, and I've told them umpteen times, but the response is always the same, pubs are open 7 days a week and 12 hours a day. The Keepmoat is open once a fortnight for a couple of hours before kick-off and for 10 minutes at half time.
And as for sky high prices, have you been to a pub in London recently? £6 a pint there.

Not sure what difference this makes if they don't sell fook all during the once an fortnight for two hours 10 minutes that they are open............. May as well take the beer away and cut their losses altogether - why not just revamp some of the old pie wagons from Belle View and be done with it.

Alternatively........ we could reduce the cost of the ale and get more people using the bar facility – which would encourage sales of the grub as well....................... just seems nonsensical to me.

Last time I looked Doncaster wasn't near to Londres.............at me Dad's WMC it costs £2.00 - £2.50 a pint.

by Silent Majority Fri 27 Jul - 21:50:14

I give in!

by Upwind Fri 27 Jul - 21:51:30

Silent Majority wrote:I give in!

In which case you probably know how many of the fans think..........

by Silent Majority Fri 27 Jul - 21:52:41

You know I spend hours upon hours trying to improve things for Rovers fans and do you know how much support I get, yep thats right fook all!

by Upwind Fri 27 Jul - 21:55:40

Silent Majority wrote:You know I spend hours upon hours trying to improve things for Rovers fans and do you know how much support I get, yep thats right fook all!

I don't think anyone is directly critcising you; however, if we can't make a resonable point, on a forum, about how we feel then what......................... ??

by Silent Majority Fri 27 Jul - 21:57:43

Your posts certainly looked like personal criticism.

by Filo Fri 27 Jul - 22:02:17

Martin, you`re taking things to heart, no one is criticising you, in fact I`m sure everyone on this thread so far acknowledges the fine work you are doing, it`s a sensible discussion about the price of the beer in comparison to pubs in Doncaster

by VixDRFC Fri 27 Jul - 22:04:43

Silent Majority wrote:Yes we know all of that, and I've told them umpteen times, but the response is always the same, pubs are open 7 days a week and 12 hours a day. The Keepmoat is open once a fortnight for a couple of hours before kick-off and for 10 minutes at half time.

And as for sky high prices, have you been to a pub in London recently? £6 a pint there.

Last time we were in London was for the West Ham game and we certainly didn't pay £6 a pint not even in Covent Garden. In fact if you go in one of the numerous "chain" pubs prices aren't that much more than in the same chains in Doncaster.

We all know that there are expensive places to drink in any town or city but the Keepmoat bar isn't a trendy bar that can command those prices. It doesn't even have a"captive" audience with the Lakeside pub 5 minutes walk away and the Cheswold not much further

I'd drink at the Keepmoat bar if the prices were in line with local pubs to support the club but after paying for season ticket, new shirt, lottery, Alliance I'm damned if I'm going to pay at least 50p more a pint as well.

by Upwind Fri 27 Jul - 22:07:34

Silent Majority wrote:Your posts certainly looked like personal criticism.

Nothing personal about it and if it was taken that way I apologise. TBF, I do understand (to a degree) the clubs position; however, if they don't attract people to the bar areas (because of price) the're overheads etc do not make the operation an feasible option - paying staff to stand around is not cost effective. If they sell 3/4 pints to somebody pre-match rather than perhaps 1 pint (or a coffee) then that surely has to be the way ahead - and in order to do this (IMO) is to make the price count.

Again, nothing personal meant.........

by VixDRFC Fri 27 Jul - 22:09:29

Its not a personal criticism unless you personally set the beer prices! Its a debate about the fact we feel we're being ripped off

Maybe we should have just kept quiet, drank somewhere else and waited for the offers to return because the bar has lost a lot of users Shocked

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