Last sat. My wife & I went to an Appleby's restaurant in Mesa, Az. We always have beer with a meal. When our waiter appeared I asked him about the sizes of the draft beer. We usually have pints which are 16 oz. It turned out that their pint is 10 oz. The next size was 20 oz. I be didn't really need 20 oz but wanted more than 10 so had the 20oz glass.
On the way out I complained to the manager about their ridiculous 10oz pint & told him that we would never set foot in one of their restaurants again. The cost of my wife's 10 oz pint was 5.75 which is exhorbitant.
Thinking about that crummy excuse for a restaurant later it occurred to me that their rip-off tactics are symptomatic of the way business is done in the US.
The US economy is based on false prosperity, imo. In order to post profits companies resort to short term thinking just planning for the next quarter.
It will all come to a grinding halt in the not too distant future.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.This is bad in way too many ways. A Pint is 16 oz = 473.1765 ml. 10 OZ? Who are these imbeciles? Applebees is a chain so I infer this is the same in all their restaurants.
Remember all the stoopidity about mcdonalds, burger k,... not having a SMALL size drink. Medium, Large and Extra Large. How is that not idiotic? And thousands of restaurants and millions of people went along with it for years.
I started asking for "The smallest coke," after being told repeatedly that they did not have a SMALL drink. Fucking stooopid.
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The pint is a unit of volume or capacity in both the imperial and United States customary measurement systems. In both of those systems it is traditionally one-eighth of a gallon. The British imperial pint is about 20% larger than the American pint because the two systems are defined differently. Almost all other countries have standardized on the metric system, so the size of what may be called a pint varies depending on local custom.
JacarC
Level 8
Nov 28, 2018
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Thats a UK pint. Not everything is bigger in the US
273kelvin
Level 8
Nov 28, 2018
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Back in BC, Canada we always had 20oz pints (imperial) until a few yrs ago then some of the pubs started serving 16oz pints. I suppose they can technically call it a pint b/c it is a US pint.
But to go from 16 to 10 ozs is way too much of stretch.
From Wikipedia:
A pint glass is a form of drinkware made to hold either a British ("imperial" ) pint of 20 imperial fluid ounces (568 ml) or an American pint of 16 US fluid ounces (473 ml). These glasses are typically used to serve beer, and also often for cider.
Mofo1953
Level 9
Nov 28, 2018
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I guess your 16oz pints must be a result of your small gallons. A real pint is 20oz.
DoctorJohn
Level 5
Nov 28, 2018
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I don't like Applebees anyway. Expensive and over-rated. $84 for me and my two kids. Rubbish!
Twisted185
Level 6
Nov 27, 2018
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A pint is a fixed amount. If they sell you a pint and bring you 10oz, they are cheating you. It’s like saying “our gallon of milk is half a gallon.”
Also Applebees is terrible. You’d be appalled how much of your dinner came out of a microwave.
A2Jennifer
Level 8
Nov 27, 2018
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That's around the corner from my house.
GeorgeRocheleau
Level 8
Nov 27, 2018
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I only go there when I am looking for someplace open very late at night.
It is always about the profit, people only figure in the equation with their pocketbooks! We will need to spend our time and money, where there is some ‘soul,’ and that is getting hard to find!
Freedompath
Level 9
Nov 27, 2018
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You have absolutely nailed it.
That's the way it's been "working" for the last couple of decades.
Corporations are only interested in making as much money as they can, as quickly as they can. If they have any kind of product(s), the size of said product will decrease, as will overall quality, and the price will go up.
KKGator
Level 9
Nov 27, 2018
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I would say that's the American way, but in Britain, to make more money they have introduced the "women's" pint - actually an American pint which is less than a standard British pint.
Beowulfsfriend
Level 9
Nov 27, 2018
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That isn't true. Pints and half pints are strictly regulated and measurements are legally displayed on all 'pub' glasses.
@Amisja you are there so I'll believe you. I did read that here though.
@Beowulfsfriend There are strict laws about measurements. It might be the 'half pint' glass you refer to.
@Amisja I did check and it may have been the Australian schooner which is 400 rather than 583 standard British pint. I've been through Asia, Africa, and the Mideast, need to get to Europe next. Have a good friend in Portugal and distant family in Northern Ireland (even some caves named after my father's family). My daughter is in England monthly.
There is definitely no such thing as a ‘women's pint’ here in the UK. Apart from the regulation of alcoholic drinks volume, the very name ‘women’s pint’ would be laughed out of the pub.
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