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and we can't really raise our prices as fast as they do said Tom Van Dyke, manager of The Pub, 39 N. Court St.G Schectman said.
Down the street from Skipper's, at The Union Bar and Grill, bartenders plan to avoid increasing prices at least until the end of summer, but we hear it's coming down the line
said bartender Sean Collins.
The same holds true for Pawpurr's Bar on Court Street. There, beer prices change only after the owners do some serious number-crunching and analyze the profits, which are still doing well for now, manager Matt Lawson said.
Students who opt for backyard partying instead of bar-hopping might also see increases during the next year as local wholesalers eye a keg deposit increase to deter renters and metal thieves from reselling the steel drums to scrap yards for small profits.
It's a huge problem (in Athens County)
and on a national scale
it's even worse
said Kurt Strickmaker, marketing manager for Kerr Distributing Co. in Athens. They're stealing kegs to go make an extra $10. He declined to say exactly how many keg thefts the company has experienced.
Such theft has become a significant concern in Ohio, especially for the manufacturers that stand to lose the most from keg thefts, said Bob Tenenbaum, a spokesman for the Wholesale Beer and Wine Association of Ohio.
As a distributor, Kerr charges a $10 deposit for each keg to cover a similar deposit it pays to the manufacturing companies that own the keg. When a keg is stolen or sold for scrap, the renter loses his $10, but the manufacturer loses the cost of the keg, which can be $100 to $150, Strickmaker said.
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he said, and beer is really an affordable luxury.
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