Queue lines in pubs.

lolwray said:

Getting served in a crowded bar on a weekend down the OKR was a right of passage ..a bit like passing exams,driving test getting to 9th base etc 

9th base?

ElfsborgAddick said:

valleynick66 said:

All joking aside I really don’t understand the dislike by some towards Wetherspoons. 

They have a successful business model and are popular. Likewise doing more than most to keep the high street alive. 

(More) affordable beer than many other pubs. 

Are they really any worse than a longstanding local pub that makes newbies feel unwelcome because they aren’t regulars?

Their app is excellent and makes ordering very easy. 

The world has simply moved on. 

Please enter Spoons snob extraordinaire @Radostanradical

Nothing wrong with spoons per se just its clientle and food.

Eithrr single parents with 7 kids all called some derivative of kenzie or brexit voters complaining about the country.

Arsenetatters said:

EugenesAxe said:

lolwray said:

Getting served in a crowded bar on a weekend down the OKR was a right of passage ..a bit like passing exams,driving test getting to 9th base etc 

9th base?

Oh god it’s probably another deviant sexual practice I’ll find out when I Google.

Well we all know what 4th is, so 9th must be quite a bit further...

Radostanradical said:

R0TW said:

You just can’t leave it alone can you?

I was @ and my comments are firmly tounge in cheek, I go in spoons occassionally. Dont be a snowflake.

When you need a pint at 8am?

Had this ridiculous scenario in the new barrack tavern before the Wednesday game last season. A proper boozer! Not a spoons! I asked an old boy about it while queuing and he was like "its jus how we do it now". Some geezer cut the line and my man said "mind you, you always get a few dickheads". Made me chuckle...

SuedeAdidas said:

golfaddick said:

I never envy bar staff who have to decide who to serve next. 

Many moons ago, I was in NY and watching WC qualifier games in Nevada Smith’s bar in Manhattan. 

It was absolutely mobbed. The bar was run by a team of 4/5 Irish guys. 

They somehow managed to not only keep track of who was next but even remembered when it was their turn to buy the drink for the punter (was something like buy 3 then they buy 1). 

They were incredible and shows what can be done with smart, motivated bat staff. 

The difference is that bar work can be a proper, well paid (with tips) career in some places whereas in the UK this is hardly ever the case. 

I was in a bar near Times Square a couple of years back and the owner told me that (with tips) they had some bar staff earning $80-100k a year. 

I'd be pissed off if wages and tips came to $80pa.  I'd prefer to be at the $100k end of that scale.

Arsenetatters said:

Being 5 foot 2 is a sure way to not get served.

Low cut top.

YTS1978 said:

Had this ridiculous scenario in the new barrack tavern before the Wednesday game last season. A proper boozer! Not a spoons! I asked an old boy about it while queuing and he was like "its jus how we do it now". Some geezer cut the line and my man said "mind you, you always get a few dickheads". Made me chuckle...

First time I ever witnessed this was in the now closed Wetherspoons at Forest Hill.

A member of the bar staff and a door man were actually telling people not to do it, but it carried on. 

valleynick66 said:

jose said:

Dick waving rite of passage or not I have always dislike bar scrum melee, and would prefer some kind of accepted queuing system.
Looks like I am in a tiny minority again.

I think the logic of a queue is sound in the absence of good bar staff who are scanning the room and have a good idea of who is next. If they know then the clientale don’t need ‘to push in’ and will wait their turn. 

But I think it’s more to do with layout / design. A queue that snakes in to the seating / standing area is far from ideal. Horses for courses I guess. 

Horses for bars

Its why they are so long, nothing dick wavy about it. If bar staff lose that skill of clocking who is next and it is an imperfect science then we can sack another tranche of skilled service sector employees and skip straight to queuing for a vending machine for a can of fizzy shit. Isn't like the economy matters or anything or pubs are anything more than slosh houses as opposed to key community hubs where human interaction is vital to the whole thing 

I know its not your view either @valleynick66

Addickted2TheReds said:

I’ve noticed loads of it going on this year at work, mostly young English. 

One example:

“1 mojito please”.

I go and make it which maybe takes one minute. 

I then charge the girl and then ask the person next to her what she’d like. 

“1 mojito please”….

I then realise they’re a big group all together and I asked them “please could you let me know what you’re all having so I can make them quicker for you”

…………….

”9 mojitos please” 

😳

'Can we all pay separately '

Addickted2TheReds said:

O-Randy-Hunt said:

Addickted2TheReds said:

I’ve noticed loads of it going on this year at work, mostly young English. 

One example:

“1 mojito please”.

I go and make it which maybe takes one minute. 

I then charge the girl and then ask the person next to her what she’d like. 

“1 mojito please”….

I then realise they’re a big group all together and I asked them “please could you let me know what you’re all having so I can make them quicker for you”

…………….

”9 mojitos please” 

😳

'Can we all pay separately '

I don’t mind that so much, or more that I’m getting used to it. 

Easier to stick 2 card machines infront of 9 people and go down the line rather than making 1 drink at a time and then charging, especially cocktails. 

That said, had a group of nice lads probably about 19/20 that I educated after day 3 of their holiday to do rounds though… it was revolutionary to them! 

In fairness, i do understand if you’re from that Covid generation and this is your first time going on a lads/girls holiday or going out for World Cup games that you might not “get it”.

...and then as you give them their Mojitos,"and 5 guinness please"