According to this video, a large beer costs $1.25 more than a small beer at Qwest Field. This video suggests that you might not be getting your buck-and-a-quarter’s worth out of that deal:

I have calls out to Qwest Field officials and a representative from Levy Restaurants. I’ll let you know when they get back to me.

(Thanks to Slog tippers Gregory and Hajo.)

29 replies on ““Hold it, CALL THE COPS!””

  2. I would comment with some thoughts but, I don’t want to end up on the wrong end of any potential waiting list for Seattle Sounders season tickets. So I will say that I adore Qwest Field, and the management of the facility, and of the Seahawks and the Sounders, and know that everything they do in the both the ergonomic and structural design of their various liquid containers, and is done with an eye toward the overall betterment of humanity.

  3. Well, I don’t give a shit about any season tickets, etc., so I’m gonna say call the cops too! Come one, liquor control board, where are you when we need you?? (Or does anon @1 know something about this that we don’t?)

  5. This is of course assuming you can get a beer vendor to fill your cup all the way to the top in the first place. IME, about an inch and a half of foam, with roughly a quarter inch unfilled at the brim seems to be the norm.

  11. Apparently they are only supposed to fill the small one to the line, which would make it a good deal less than the large one, but in practice they tend to just fill till the foam hits the top and it spills.

  18. Of course no one seems to bat an eye when at Top Foods they offer specials like “SALE: 2 Artichokes for $3. Individual price, $1.50”.

  19. After drinking some beer I decided my 4oz estimate was way off. I bet there’s an extra 2oz to be had at the top though.

    $9 / 16oz
    .56250000000000000000
    $10.25 / 18oz
    .56944444444444444444

    still getting fucked though.

  20. Derek Zumsteg over at USS Mariner ran the numbers for Safeco, admittedly way back in 2003, and came to the conclusion that the regular-size draft Budweiser was the cheapest way to get alcohol. See the bottom of this page:

    http://ussmariner.com/features/safeco_dr…

    I should run it for Qwest. Though I don’t really care, myself; I drink the microbrews, damn the cost, which only come in the smaller cup. Because I am a yuppie dickhead.

  21. There is definitely some space at the top of the large beer. If you pour a beer bottle into a pint glass, it comes deceptively close to the top of the glass. The volume of the empty space at the top of a tapered glass can be very surprising.

    There’s also a comment on the youtube video about fill lines that probably has more to do with it.

  23. We go to McCoy’s Firehouse before Sounders games for $17 pitchers of Manny’s and rarely have a beer at Qwest. What a rip off!

  25. Restaurants are infamous for a similar rip-off: the cup vs. the premium- priced bowl of soup. Often the same amount of soup in each, sometimes the cup holds more than the bowl.

  26. true, @ 25 – that was definitely the case at the diner where i used to work. a few spoonfuls more was all, and about $2 more for a bowl. also it was true of the orange juice. (maybe not $2 more for a large orange juice, but it was a lot more than the small).

    i think the reason why this seems so egregious is the exorbitant cost of the “smaller” beer in the first place.

  27. I had the opportunity to work for the Levy Restaurants’ American Airlines Center franchise in Dallas for several weeks.

    They subjected me to a one on two interview (one interviewer interviewing two prospects simultaneously).

    It was raining the night of my orientation (indoctrination). I arrived soaking wet. I intentionally arrived early so I could change. They proceeded to keep me in a freezing stairwell for forty minutes.

    When it came time to process IDs, it took over an hour, not because there was a line or anything, but because the idiot working the computer couldn’t figure out how to feed the badges into the printer.

    I showed up on time every shift and was fired for failing my pre-employment drug screen.

    One of the worst working experiences of my life.

  28. Geez, and I thought the prices at Coors Field were a ripoff. Well, then again beer @ Coors Field was something like $4 in 1997, and when I moved to Seattle that year, it was more like $6 at the Kingdome, so I guess it’s always been a worse screwjob in Seattle.

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