Brewhouse and Kitchen in Nottingham --AVOID, Scammer Alert

beamerguy

Brewhouse and Kitchen in Nottingham --AVOID, Scammer Alert

By having a drink can cost you an extra £100 ?
Another Parking Eye tale of woe

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5128239/Woman-49-fined-leaving-car-pub-carpark.html

bargepole

It's hardly a scam.

This is a pub with 27 spaces in the car park, and close to Notts Forest FC and Trent Bridge Cricket ground.

There are signs outside and inside telling patrons to input their reg. no. into a terminal so they don't get a ticket, and even if they forget to do so, they can get the charge cancelled upon proof that they were a customer.

If they didn't have a scheme like this, genuine pub users would have trouble finding a space. Seems fair enough to me.

beamerguy

bargepole wrote: »

It's hardly a scam.

This is a pub with 27 spaces in the car park, and close to Notts Forest FC and Trent Bridge Cricket ground.

There are signs outside and inside telling patrons to input their reg. no. into a terminal so they don't get a ticket, and even if they forget to do so, they can get the charge cancelled upon proof that they were a customer.

If they didn't have a scheme like this, genuine pub users would have trouble finding a space. Seems fair enough to me.

Whoo BP, have you changed sides ??

If they really want to stop the unwanted, a simple barrier
with a ticket and upon paying the bill, they get a token
to exit

Why on earth would anyone who misread, were not told
by staff then have to go to the effort of proving themselves.
And .. we all know about the problems about entering
a reg number ?

Amazed though that PE are doing mini car parks now

Get all that sorted and it might not be a scam

Redx

plenty of pubs near major attractions or beauty spots have similar issues and machines with redemption inside

there is a place called Hollingworth Lake near Saddleworth with a pub called THE BEACH that has a similar system of payment and refund at the bar and its been that way for a few years now

I cannot remember which PPC it is but its not PE or EXCEL etc

if they did not have a system like this it would be rammed 24/7 with people going sailing or just taking country walks around the man made lake

so I can sympathise with some landowners trying to run a business who have an attractively located car park

beamerguy

Redx wrote: »

so I can sympathise with some landowners trying to run a business who have an attractively located car park

I agree but think it out first, do their homework with one thing
in mind that a PPC is only operating to make money which
will in turn mean losing money when customers get burned.
The great British public are not known for complaining, it
just means they never return

As said many times on here ... "google is your / their best friend"

The_Deep

Dan Kelly, operations manager for the North at Brewhouse, said the scheme is to ensure 'genuine customers' always have a space to park.

Good old DM, but this article alone will probably cost the pub £££s in lost custom. Is that what they want, what they really really want?

Guys_Dad

The_Deep wrote: »

Dan Kelly, operations manager for the North at Brewhouse, said the scheme is to ensure 'genuine customers' always have a space to park.

Good old DM, but this article alone will probably cost the pub £££s in lost custom. Is that what they want, what they really really want?

But would a car park full of football supporters not using pub not mean more lost custom? Needs a Risk Analysis, obviously.