Tuesday, July 3, 2012

City Beer Hall - where the pizzas are as "free" as a Chinese dissident

I've never encountered a more flawed yet apparently successful business model than at the City Beer Hall.



So, you want a beer?  They have arguably the best selection in the Cap-D.  On top of that, the food menu is awesome (its the guy from the Wine-n-Diner.)  Yea the music sucks, and bull is cheesy, but hey - at least they're trying.  That's not what I have a problem with.  My problem is the pizza.

If you've never been there, they give you a ticket for a "free" pizza when you order a beer.  The pizza is small, really it's just the size of one slice.  A round slice.  Now in order to get your "FREE" round slice, you have to bring your little ticket over the kitchen area, wait in line, and ask for it.  Then you have to stand there like a dick and wait there for it.  So already your *free!* pizza is costing you valuable minutes of your life.  Not to mention your personal fucking dignity.



Then there's the fact that in order to get your !!FREE!! pizza, you have to pay on average 7 bucks for a pint.

Geniuses at the City Beer Hall:  "Well actually the cost of the round slice is included in the price, so it's quite fair. But we have this super rad and totally unoriginal bull!"

So tell me, geniuses, what if for some crazy random reason I actually want to partake in MORE THAN ONE of your stupid expensive beers?

Geniuses at the City Beer Hall:  "Then you will keep getting tickets for pizza with every beer you order, until eventually you won't want to eat them anymore.  At that point you will essentially be paying for pizza (included in the price of the beer) that you are not eating, and you will go home with several completely useless tickets in your pocket (where your money used to be).  Have you seen the bull???"

I see.  And what if I want to order beer AND something from the menu?   

Geniuses at the City Beer Hall: "You will get pizza tickets with your beer and also you will get your food, but you won't eat the pizza, which you are paying for, because the price is AHHH fuck it.  Ok, YEA you are getting raped by our high beer prices because w know you will never eat the godamm pizza.  Are you happy???  And guess what - you'll be back!  They all will!!  Now go watch a drunk chick's tits jiggle on the mechanical bull, for fuck's sake.  What do you want from me!?!?!"

Damn - he's got a point.

CONCLUSION:  Go to the City Beer Hall for lunch (1 beer & a round slice should hold you over for a few hours, fat ass), or for one beer.  Any more than that and you're an asshole.

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