HOW TO TWO-FOR-ONE

What do lab.oratory, Monster Ronsons and Barbie Deinhoffs have in common? Answer: very dumb bar policies. Click the headline to read on and find out why. Last night team damaged went on a tour of East Kreuzberg around Schlesisches Tor. First we went to Monster Ronsons and then to Barbie Deinhoff's.

Monster Ronsons was quiet and empty at 10pm. That was because all the Karaoke booths were full of people singing their hearts out. But heck it was 2-4-1 night so, even though we weren't singing, we stopped for a cheap beer. We all like different drinks, so we order different drinks. What happens? I get two bottles of Berliner for the price of one and my friend gets two Weiss beers, for the price of one. Great. So by the time we have drunk the first beer the second, free, one is warm and going flat and we want to chuck it out. We ask the bar lady why we couldn't get our second beers later. She says, "It would be too complicated". What? We were the only people in the bar! Where had she left her brain?

We went on to Barbie Deinhoff's and it was 2-4-1 there as well. This time the small bar was overflowing on to the street, but they still had the same policy with the resulting warm flat beers. They had the same excuse. "It's too complicated". It's the same in lab.oratory, but worse, because there you are naked or semi naked wandering around a maze with a bottle of beer in each hand. Sexy.

NOT ROCKET SCIENCE
Well, it's not too complicated for Tom's Bar, Murschmann's or the low budget Tramps. Here's how it works in the first two: You buy a beer and pay. They give you the drink and a till receipt. You drink your beer. You go to the bar with your till receipt and get a free beer. They take the till receipt from you. Even Tramps, who have a cash box not a till, can work it out. Instead of a till receipt they use a little ticket with the price of the drink you bought written on it.

Please pay attention bar-staff and managers of these said bars. It's not rocket science!

Comments

[xerxys]

Hear, hear! Absolutely HATE Lab's 2-4-1 policy. I mean, for god's sake they have the most convoluted payment system at the end of the night, having you run back and forth between cloakroom and till with various tags and receipts, yet they can't print off a receipt a la Tom's for every second drink? That ludicrous Friday night entry price not giving you enough profit margin to buy adequate paper for the till? Having to 'buddy up' just so you won't have a useless second beer is pathetic, and never works as a pick-up line anyway...