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Two diet cokes cost £5.63, how does that happen? Blog Discussion

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We don't have automatic tills at work, and have to work out the drinks prices in our heads.... it's funny when some of the noobs start grabbing random prices out of the air and quoting odd numbers for a pair of drinks :rotfl:
These posh places have to keep out the riff raff doncha know and at those prices this I am sure they do.
Anyone posted this yet, info on London pubs/clubs etc.
http://www.london-drinking.com/131.htm
Is the place listed, just curious.
From what I can remember, the pub selects the amount of syrup, water and magical ingredients to add and its mixed. If the pub wanted to make its stock last longer and make more profit I would reduce the amount of syrup and up the water levels but this would reduce the taste and overall quality, It is kind of like a real life game of Theme Park.
The initial expenditure on all raw products might have been large, but offset against the stupid price of all soft drinks the profit outweigh the initial cost.
Standard rounding policy (for example when calculating VAT) is 1.000000p to 1.499999999p rounded down to 1p and 1.5000000 to 1.999999999p rounded up to 2p.
Each drink cost 250p. Add the 12.5% charge and that makes it 281.25p
One of these is 281.25p, rounded down to 285p
Two of these is 562.50p, rounded up to 563p
Mathematically, this is exactly what I would expect.
What would annoy me MUCH more is the automatic 12.5% charge!