DCBeer on pay-to-play market in Washington DC
Flying Dog rep, Tommy Hunter, re-surfaced the payola issue and got the conversation started. DC Beer takes it further with a special report. No one speaks on the record but some interesting stuff here nonetheless…
A restaurateur close to opening in Washington, DC, whose business plans on focusing on craft beer across a number of draft lines approached another distributor, who shared this information with DCBeer, asking for a beer dispensing system for free because that’s what the restaurateur expected of the DC market. The distributor told this person that the costs of installing a draft system would be borne by a macro, thus a certain percentage of the tap lines would have to carry a macro brewer’s products. At this point, the restaurateur balked.
Full report this way >> DC Beer.
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