Some Montrealers Are Getting Scammed When They Order A Beer!
When CBC gets involved, you know something is going on
If there’s one thing we all know, it’s that you don’t mess with people’s beer. Montrealers love their food and booze, and if something threatens either of those… let’s just say that a lot of stuff will go down until the situation is fixed. That’s exactly what happened when someone noticed he was served less beer than advertised on the menu, causing him to contact CBC News.
The customer noticed the unfortunate incident at two Sports Station which made CBC conduct their own investigation on 4 bars owned by the same owner, Peter Sergakis. They ordered 5 pitchers of 20 oz only to find out that the average of beer served was around 15 oz. Obviously, when it comes to liquids and what is advertised on the menu, a margin of error is accepted, but in that case, it was largely exceeded. The margin is 0.5 oz, whereas here it could go up to 7 oz.
After questioning CBC’s approach and method, Peter Sergakis sent them a revised menu only displaying pitcher sizes, and no volume. He said that the menu never meant that the beer served would be equivalent to 20 oz, only the size of the glass.
You think it would stop here, but the investigation went a little deeper when Measurement Canada stated that the glass itself can’t even hold 20 oz. In the light of all this, Peter Sergakis announced that all the menus in his establishments have been changed to avoid any future confusion.
The whole story raises an interesting point though. How many bars pretend to give customers a “good deal” from a volume-to-price perspective, and end up short-serving them…
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