Shameless ripoff.
This is how it goes. Bottles have no cash value. Bottlers give them away to distributors, who sell them to you, you drink the contents, and when its time to get some more beer, you take the bottle back, and they sell you a full one. Then the bottler picks up the empty cases, takes out the chipped ones, washes and cleans the surviving ones, and fills them again for as long as the bottle can hold.
Some brands have "no-retornable" versions, but most are returnable. If you walk up to a 7-11 or a corner store, and have no empty bottles, you will have to buy no retornables, or leave a deposit for the bottle, which you supposedly get back when you return the bottle. (Which no one does) All the non-locally produced brands are non returnable, as its not worth the expense for a distributor to send a truck back just for empty bottles.
Casually, (or not) some of the traditional big industries in Monterrey are beer, glass, stamped steel and cardboard.
However, bars, and particularly small bars, are not charged for the bottles. Brewers know that as long as people are drinking your product, business is good, so they give bars a lot of perks, such as beer at a considerable discount (bars make more proportionally more money on beer than any other drink) and freebies like tables, chairs, ornaments, coolers, etc. One of those perks is not making a fuss for broken bottles. As long as your bar keeps selling our beer, they will keep the cases flowing in.
So no bar gives a fuck if a bottle breaks. One particular bar where I used to pick up chicks even went as far as just throwing them in a trash can at cleanup (one busboy pushed one of those trash trolleys on wheels around, while another just picked glass bottles and threw them it it)
So, a bar claiming that you have to pay for a broken bottle is a rip off. But as Roosh says, its not worth to loose your cool over $4. Just tell the waitress thats ok, heres $5 bring me a cold one. Tip is optional, but recommended.
This is how it goes. Bottles have no cash value. Bottlers give them away to distributors, who sell them to you, you drink the contents, and when its time to get some more beer, you take the bottle back, and they sell you a full one. Then the bottler picks up the empty cases, takes out the chipped ones, washes and cleans the surviving ones, and fills them again for as long as the bottle can hold.
Some brands have "no-retornable" versions, but most are returnable. If you walk up to a 7-11 or a corner store, and have no empty bottles, you will have to buy no retornables, or leave a deposit for the bottle, which you supposedly get back when you return the bottle. (Which no one does) All the non-locally produced brands are non returnable, as its not worth the expense for a distributor to send a truck back just for empty bottles.
Casually, (or not) some of the traditional big industries in Monterrey are beer, glass, stamped steel and cardboard.
However, bars, and particularly small bars, are not charged for the bottles. Brewers know that as long as people are drinking your product, business is good, so they give bars a lot of perks, such as beer at a considerable discount (bars make more proportionally more money on beer than any other drink) and freebies like tables, chairs, ornaments, coolers, etc. One of those perks is not making a fuss for broken bottles. As long as your bar keeps selling our beer, they will keep the cases flowing in.
So no bar gives a fuck if a bottle breaks. One particular bar where I used to pick up chicks even went as far as just throwing them in a trash can at cleanup (one busboy pushed one of those trash trolleys on wheels around, while another just picked glass bottles and threw them it it)
So, a bar claiming that you have to pay for a broken bottle is a rip off. But as Roosh says, its not worth to loose your cool over $4. Just tell the waitress thats ok, heres $5 bring me a cold one. Tip is optional, but recommended.