"Christian McArdle" wrote in message
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But pubs do make a much larger margin on soft drinks than
they do on alcoholic drinks.

I think it is justifiable, though. You can't drink many pints of Coke in
the
same way you can with beer. I bet that statistically, a soft drinker will
spend a lot longer in the pub for one drink that the average beer drinker.

Rubbish.
I can drink pint for pint Pepsi Max with a beer drinker.
And I don't get drunk and smash the place up either.

Therefore, soft drinks need to have a larger mark up to get a fairer share
of the fixed costs.

Its just profitering, nothing to do with increased costs.