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Bar saves staff backs by moving beer kegs by zip line
A zip line has been introduced for beer delivery at a Cornish bar in a bid to stop its team needing to carry heavy kegs.
The bar, based at Lusty Glaze Beach in Newquay and simply named Lusty Glaze Beach Bar and Restaurant, is located in a secluded cove but has 133 steps to and from the bar for beer distributors to access.
According to reports via the BBC, the beach bar’s new pulley system operated zip line has now been installed above the cove to circumnavigate the need for the heft involved in moving beer kegs.
The BBC detailed how the heavy-lifting job often meant that the bar’s team would need to commit to spending an entire day moving the kegs up and down on stretchers in what had previously become a back-breaking effort.
Lusty Glaze Beach Bar and Restaurant events manager Robin Parris, revealed: “Everything used to go up and down by hand, including the kegs. The big ones, two people at a time, on a stretcher in the old days, but now things are a little bit quicker.”
Staff member Morgan Perkins explained: “Normally carrying these kegs down would take all day to take this amount of kegs down, because it’s normally a two-person lift these big ones.”
Perkins added: “It makes it so much easier, we could get down about 20 kegs in about two hours.”
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