Short measure
I do appreciate that a brim measure pint glass can`t be filled to more than about 2mm from the top unless it is scrumpy or your dishwasher has left detergent on the glasses. Apart from the gunness ruling there is no legal excuse for anything lazily excessive on the head front though

My old boss was a social club licensee and nailed people to the wall for heads of foam verbally, whichever side of the bar he was on. He never did get me one, but at a trade show he got a credit card sized "calculator" with graduations on one side and price per pint on the columns.
On getting anything other than a proper attempt at a top up he would with a flourish hold this up against a pint glass, and very loudly say how much they were trousering. Strangely enough they always became suddenly eager to top it up.
They don`t want the punters to think about it in those terms.



edit: Someone is bound to get on the head vs no head arguments. I`m not north Vs south, I will just say HEAD=LINED GLASSES!

Edit I also just posted on last edit something out of date. sorry.
(tootired Is searching for a funny sig, nothing good so far, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 17:32, 4 replies)

Quite right
Local in London charges £3.40 for a pint of Fosters, a Weatherspoons charges £2.35 for the same pint!

Any crappy bollocks about head is given short thrift with comments along the line of 'I do like head, but not on my pint' or 'do I get a flake with that, or are you going to top it up'.

Lazy staff / cheating landlords.
(Suck it and Sea, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 18:22, closed)

I will get around to making one and posting it -eventually
I did actually do the mm vs % of a pint for straight side and "bellend" staight pints (stops your hand slipping off the end) when the price of a pint went off bossgeezers card (it stopped at £2.50!).
I have the data on my old laptop somewhere, and the pennies per column and my first crap attempts at doing an updated template to laminate. It was just all the graphics formatting I got bogged down in. " call trading standards" as a red area I thought was a nice touch, when I get a free weekend....

The blatant thing is the bastards put on northern swan-necks and sparklers, ONLY for use with lined glasses.
What happened to the first new labour gov pre election pledge about introducing lined glasses? then is no argument and less spillage.
I was about to post one about that when I saw the previous entry and lost my way.

"oh it`s a bit lively"
"take the sparkler off"
"oh I can`t"
"its quite simple, it just unscrews, whatever, it`s just going to take you greedies 3 times as long to fill it and the queue is growing"
(tootired Is searching for a funny sig, nothing good so far, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 19:28, closed)

Bugger Bognor!!
I moved to Manchester a few years back (I am now back in the south)and found a local, I always insisted that the brightener was taken off and had a flat pint with little head. The landlord was pulled me a flat pint and a frothy pint put them side by side and pointing to the flat pint said "Bognor" then pointing to the frothy one said "Barbados"
(johnners hitting things with hammers until they work, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 18:52, closed)

bet it had a line and was full to it though, see above!
I love a head on a pint, but not when I`ve paid for 100% beer by measure and got less than that by a long wayin foam (90%air?)for the last 1/2"
(tootired Is searching for a funny sig, nothing good so far, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 19:33, closed)

Clearly, you and your boss drink it shit pubs.
Whenever I've asked for a pint to be topped up, there has never been a problem.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 11:08, closed)

Similar...
My local in Beckenham is owned by a chain... think of what a murcain would call a tap....
They sell their beer and expect a 110% return on a barrel.
For them that can't do the maths... if the barrel contains 100 pints, they expect to sell 110 pints from it.
The only way they can do it is to short measure.

We regularly request top ups.
The tight bastards also have no heating at all. The boilers are bust and as we now approach winter, we have our third year with no heat. Plans are in place to get the pub shut down or better still sold before then
(bof, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 13:39, closed)