re: Chimes East beer menu

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Worked in a beer bar.

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The Chimes is NOT a beer bar... it is a full service bar and restaurant. They should have goddamn printed menus if people want them.

The best beer bars I have ever been to (Torst in NYC for example) updated their PRINTED beer menus each time a keg kicked. Granted they have far fewer taps, but they kept on top of it. There's nothing worse than telling a customer they are SOL because they don't have a smart phone to check an online menu.

This policy is one of the more perplexing things I've noticed about the chimes. Let's do the math: say a toner cartridge that prints 10,000 pages costs 150 bucks. paper costs a penny per page. if they printed 50x 5 page menus per day, they would use 91250 pages. That's 900 bucks worth of paper and $1400 in toner. that's 2300 bucks total for a year of printing. Pay some schlub barback to print and staple this shite minimum wage for 15 minutes per day and that's another 800 bucks for the year. TOTAL investment approx. $3000/year.....

Now, tell me why a place that charges $10 for a pint of beer can't afford $3k/yr to print me a goddamn menu if I ask.