I was in a local pub (more interested in food than drink) and I politely asked where the price list was.
The barmaid explained that there wasn't one because the new one (with price amendments) had not been put up yet.
I reminded her that it was illegal.
I'm finding it harder to find price lists these days. Is it really worth reporting and who to?
As the local city (or district) council is responsible for licensing matters I would guess they would be the chappies to complain to.
Different department - local Trading Standards. Contact phone numbers are usually in the phone book.
Unless I thought they were doing it to intentionally deceive, then I would probably leave it with just letting them know that its the law to have it displayed.
Exactly the same happened to me today. There is a consipracy to lie in these cases. The assistant manager of the pub said exactly the same thing to me [there wasn't one because the new one (with price amendments) had not been put up yet]. Clearly that was a patent lie.
Soon after the manager of the pub came up to me and asked me to leave, claiming wrongfully I was being too aggressive. I was not aggressive, merely reminding these people that they were breaking the law. I have now reported them to my local trading standards office, but I would suggest a more appropriate strategy would be to waste the bar staff's time.
If there is no price list visible from the bar ask the price of every drink you can see from the bar - all the liquors, all the beers, lagers, bottled beers, soft drinks, and spend 5 seonds writing down the price of each on a piece of paper. They will soon get fed up after about 5 drinks if they are busy.
Do this for every pub you go into which doesn't have a price list.
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