Bar Has Creative Solution To Frequent Theft Of Glasses
“[The glasses] are quite expensive because we have them made especially.”
By Admin on March 15, 2018
Several bars in Belgium have grown tired of people stealing their beer glasses. Those things aren’t cheap ya know.
The Guardian reports, “In Bruges, Philip Maes, the landlord at the Bruges Beerwall cafe, overlooking the city’s central Groenerei canal, has invested in security alarms which are attached to the stem of each of his glasses. “We have lost at least 4,000 [glasses] every year,” Maes said. “Especially the tourists liked to walk with them. For some reason, some customers think that when they pay for something to drink, they get the glass as a present.”
Well here is the thing…the alarms aren’t working.
The Guardian continues, “Further to the east of the country, in Ghent, the Dulle Griet, a bar offering 500 different types of beer, has gone one step further to guarantee the safety of its most prized glasses. “Anyone who drinks our house beer must hand over his shoe,” Alex Devriendt told the Belgian daily newspaper the Nieuwsblad. “We then put them in a basket that we pull up against the ceiling. The basket has now become an attraction, but for us it remains a guarantee. [The glasses] are quite expensive because we have them made especially.”
