Funky Buddha lost 191 glasses last night.

Damnit man thats a lot of pint/snifters.

 

Jesus. They might go to plastic cups after a loss like that.

 

Can you elaborate ? Share a link perhaps on what exactly transpired ?

 

Just out of curiosity, what kind of glasses?

 

12oz sniffers with red letters. I'm heading over to the buddha in a bit, hopefully some more glasses have been returned.

 

That's a terrible shame. I'd guess that each of those glasses cost at least the same as the profit they'd make off one beer (and possibly more). So it's basically the same as them giving away at least 200 beers, or 200 people ordering a beer and then walking out on their tab. Great job supporting an awesome brewery everyone who took one!

 

That's terrible news. It was such a well run event and the bar staff couldn't have done a better job coordinating the madness. I couldn't believe that they were still using glassware at one point later in the night. My buddy and I were actually discussing how much of a pain that would have been keeping up. I can see how those might have walked, they are really cool snifters. I have bought many from the lounge and sent them off as extras to good trading partners. The fact that people stole them though is very shameful, especially since the Buddah staff went out of their way to make sure that it was a classy event. Sad to hear.

 

Were they serving in logo glasses? If so, I'm sorry to say they should have seen it coming, especially since they aren't new to the business. Not that it justifies the theft, but any bar that serves regularly in logo glassware is going to lose a lot more than one that uses plain glasses. Hell, I've seen people try to steal salt shakers and pizza serving racks. drunks will steal dumb shit they have absolutely no use for and anything as attractive as logo glassware is just asking to be nicked. I know of brewers that will order logo glassware to sell and then order the exact same glasses without the logo to serve in because it saves on theft. Even the plain glasses will walk away more than they should, but at a much lower rate then custom logo glasses.

 

thats a lot of glasses

 

Not saying it's ok to steal ever but aren't glasses cheap as fuck?

 

I believe each glass is $3

 

That's way more than I expect. Is that what they charge or is that what they pay? I imagine it's cheaper since they buy in bulk.

 

These are branded snifters. There is no way they would charge $3 if they were selling them, and there is little chance that they could buy them any cheaper than that in the kind of numbers that they would purchase.

 

Printed libby brand snifters and pints are just under $3 when bought by the palette, thats a shame FB got jacked.

 

I guess it goes to show how nice breweries are when they give you a free glass with a tour. Thanks CCB!

 

My buddy who has spent the last three days at the Buddha heard from Ryan that they will simply stop using branded glasses except for members because of this bullshit.