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How much would you pay for a pint of beer? Probably $5 to $8 depending on how fancy the establishment and beer are, right? More than that and it just doesn’t seem worth it. What, did they source the ingredients from the moon? Are they heirloom grains from some tiny shanty in the middle of the woods in Wyoming? Why is one beer $12? Well, now that we’ve established a limit for beer pricing, what would you do if you ordered a beer and were charged $27? You’d probably be pretty pissed right?
Well, last summer a Brooklyn man was at New York’s LaGuardia Airport and ordered a Samuel Adams Summer Ale draft beer and was charged a staggering $27.85 for a single pint. Even the “bargain” beer on the menu, Michelob Ultra, was $13.05. To give you a little background, you can grab a whole six-pack of Samuel Adams Summer Ale at most grocery stores for around $12. It’s not generally an expensive beer.
lol at all of this, including the additional 10% “COVID Recovery Fee” that doesn’t go to workers pic.twitter.com/Bq9rHJqek7
— Cooper Lund (@cooperlund) July 7, 2021
The man, Cooper Lund, posted an image of the menu on social media. Obviously, it went viral with most people commenting on how ridiculous the price was. Apparently, his tweet and the tweets of others didn’t go unnoticed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) and an investigation was launched.
Now that the OIG has finished its investigation, it found that 25 customers were charged between $23 and $27 for beers last summer, and all were given refunds for the exorbitant fees. The OIG published 35 pages of new policy guidelines for airport concessions. And, while we don’t have time to read it, you better believe nobody will be paying close to $27 for a beer at any New York City airports any time soon.
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