Bridgwater club boss defends £1-a-drink promo (From Bridgwater Mercury)
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Bridgwater club boss defends £1-a-drink promo
7:00pm Wednesday 18th July 2012 in News
The Palace
THE owner of a Bridgwater nightclub has defended its £1-per-drink student night promotion.
The Palace, in Penel Orlieu, changed its Wednesday night student promotion a fortnight ago. Customers can now get £1 drinks all night, having paid a £5 entry fee.
Under the previous student night promotion, drinks were priced £1.50 all night, but entry was free to holders of the student NUS card.
The move is aimed at younger drinkers, but it has come under fire from 19-year-old Rebecca Andrew, from Bridgwater.
She said she and many of her friends feel pricing drinks at £1 promotes irresponsible drinking.
She told the Mercury: “It’s encouraging binge drinking and I think it’s ridiculous. There has to be some sort of law that says drinks cannot be sold at a certain price.”
Rebecca told the Mercury she has been to The Palace once, but would never go back.
However, Clive Lilley, owner of The Palace, said his staff make sure people who have had too much to drink are not served more alcohol.
He said: “I’m not one of those people who doesn’t care what goes on inside.
“We run it professionally; it’s not a free-for-all.”
Mr Lilley, who also runs The Gallery pub in Bridgwater High Street, which offers £1.50 drinks on Friday and Saturday nights, said the promotions had been introduced because of the huge competition he faced from other alcohol sellers, including supermarkets.
He said: “We are trying, in a very hard environment, to stay in business. I don’t think people realise how hard it is.”
Comments(12)
Brightspark85
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5:13pm Thu 19 Jul 12
sheldoncooper
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7:16pm Thu 19 Jul 12
BaldCarl2
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11:37pm Thu 19 Jul 12
Brightspark85 wrote:So do Tescos and co have to provide security for the general public when they do alcohol promotions/discounts
I agree, Cheap drink promotions at any nightclub will always be a problem! There will always be people that can't handle there drinks sometimes (me being one of them) but that doesn't make up for the way some of the doorman at palace think they can talk and treat people sometimes.. ITS DISGUSTING! For this promotion to work security needs to be improved. Rant Over!!
rich1973
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9:03am Fri 20 Jul 12
Bridgwatered
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1:48pm Fri 20 Jul 12
DannyDyersChocolateHomunculus
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4:35pm Fri 20 Jul 12
the voice of common sense
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10:33pm Fri 20 Jul 12
andelain
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9:41am Tue 24 Jul 12
*Flick*
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10:26am Tue 24 Jul 12
sheldoncooper wrote:So true!
I'd like to know who exactly it is that drags these unwilling students into the palace and forces them to binge drink against their will !
Do students and young people these days not have the nouse to know when they have had enough? No-one makes them go and order more drinks.
£1 drinks can make for a cheap night out - if the punters act responsibly.
Everyone has had too much to drink at some point, but really we can only blame ourselves for the state we get in.
This Rebecca Andrew seems to just want to have a moan about something in a desperate bid for a bit of attention. Perhaps I will write in to the Mercury about my opinions on something for my 5 minutes, and have a nice little article written.... ;)
MINIME2
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9:15pm Tue 24 Jul 12
Brightspark85
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4:55am Sat 28 Jul 12
File Yer Own Bleedin Teeth says...
11:30pm Wed 18 Jul 12