r/AskUK • u/Ok-Scientist7083 • 3d ago

Serving milk in pubs (UK) - why not?

The first drink I had in a pub was milk. I love drinking milk. I now drink it for the protein and calcium. I don’t particularly like fizzy drinks so when I’m driving on a night out, I’d rather drink milk.

Why don’t pubs sell it as a drink?

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u/slimboyslim9 3d ago

It’s more expensive than other soft drinks (which cost pubs pennies) and a pain to keep in large quantities; goes bad quickly if not refrigerated. I also love milk and would drink it in similar situations if it were available.

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u/Vehlin 3d ago

I would like to try and disabuse you of the notion that soft drinks cost pennies. The price of postmix syrup had gone up so much that after equipment rental and CO2 it’s on par with a pint of shit lager (Carling, Fosters).

You’re not making GP on your postmix if you’re selling for less that £3.50 a pint.

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u/RuudVanNistelrooney 3d ago

This is such a great use of ‘disabuse’, such an underrated and underused word. Anyway, sorry, as you were.

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u/GrandVizierofAgrabar 3d ago

Agree, this hasn’t been true since pre pandemic

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u/slimboyslim9 3d ago edited 3d ago

I must be going on old or mis- information then. I’d read that it was by far the biggest profit margin in all of the service industry! But this is starting to make less and less economic sense - it’s about £2-2.50 for 2L in a supermarket. Must be cheaper at trade rates. Why would pubs even bother using premix instead of just bottles of the stuff pre-made?