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On 24 Apr 2006, wrote:

"Christian McArdle" wrote in
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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.

A few years ago there was a multi-filter system on the market for
restaurants which filtered ordinary tap water so the restuarant could
then sell it as premium water.

I think the law was fussy about the exact terms used to describe such
water but the law still allowed it to be called some very misleading
nonsense.

The cost of tap water is next to nothing (even allowing for all sorts of
overheads) but the cost to the diner is, I would guess, be something
like a couple of quid.