Your plan to use tokens to speed customer flow and reduce cash points at your forthcoming
Cider Festival is a good idea, however, with your current stock of tokens,
you are only allowing about 4 drinks per person, some people will want more than this.
They are cheap to get printed – 50,000 would cost about £100 and worthless for any other purpose.
At our last festival, we had 70,000 halfpint tokens printed and threw away some 15,000 at the end.
It is a false economy to re-use tokens and can lead to abuse if they are not discarded at the bar.

Gary Hinson
Branch Treasurer
CAMRA T & N

We are organising a Cider Festival at our local cricket club for the first time in two weeks and are planning to run a token system for drinks to cut down on the amount of places where money is changing hands and speed up service. I’ve seen on your website that you run a similar system and was wondering how many tokens you had available for the day. We have 800-850 people attending and have 3,500 tokens available as things stand. Essentially we have no idea if that is enough to not run out even if we are recycling them throughout the day.

Any pointers you could give us having done this sort of thing before would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Joe Tarring

I’m personally seeing Anarchy Brew Co tomorrow, so I’ll check about Grin and Bare It for you – I think it’s a natural beer, off the top of my head.

It’s not a feature we can easily support on the website at this very late stage, as we’d need to obtain the information from over 70 different breweries, and write some automation logic to handle it and display that data. However, we have made a note of it, and we’ll be discussing how we can go about providing this information next year.

Cheers,
Matt Dinnery,
Webmaster & Social Media – http://www.nclbcf.com
Branch Social Media Officer – Tyneside & Northumberland CAMRA