So we can stand around at the bar for twenty minutes being overlooked whilst gasping for a drink? No thanks.
A pub I go into encourages people to not form queues, that’d be great if the staff could keep track of who is to be served next. Which they don’t. So people queue and do so in a way sociopaths can’t skip it.
This makes a lot of sense. Essentially this will only happen in a bar that has bad bartenders that can’t do their job very well.
If the bars don’t want it happening, they need to have better service.
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I wonder if designating like 8 lines would help the issue. Portland Oregon (US) has this same lining up at the bar issue.
This is the first time I’ve heard of this fake outrage. Literally no-one does this in any of the pubs I drink at.
I’ve seen it happen occasionally—generally I’ll ignore the queue and walk up to the bar anyway. Had someone kick off at me about it once
Shit food pubs….like Marstons and Greenking. It happens in them.
Is that faint, faraway noise I hear the sound of Jon Richardson screaming?
Not British. How does this work? Do you order, and receive your order while remaining queued (Subway style)? Or do you order, leave, and get called when your order is done (Starbucks style)? Ot do you order, move to the side, and mill about till your order’s up (McDonalds)?
Look around for openings at the bar where you can stand to order. It’s customary to queue up behind the people already waiting, even if there are small gaps between groups. Don’t try to squeeze into a small space or reach around people to get the barstaff’s attention but do fill the full space of the bar where it isn’t awkward to do so.
People are served in the order they arrived at the bar. The barstaff keep track of who has been waiting the longest. It’s polite to allow people who arrived before you to order first, even if you end up at the front of the bar. If the barstaff try to take your order before someone who arrived first, just gesture to that person and say something like “I think they were next”.
If it is busy once you have your drink step away from the bar so the next person can take your place. Cheers!
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Usually queue is for food that is brought out. For drinks they will make your drinks while you wait and then you take them with you
I haven’t seen this anywhere recently (I’ve since covid) - slow news day at LBC?
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Numbered ticket dispenser is another option allowing crowding the bar yet orderly sequencing.
But that’s already how it’s done in a post office.
But that’s already how it’s done in a post office.
They should have a designated queue area, but still maintain those sitting at the bar. Alternate, one order for the seated, one for the queue. If you want to get fancy, replace the queue area with a cubby system and an app. Order from the app, pay, and get a QR code and a cubby number when your drink is ready. QR unlocked your drink cubby. The cubbies can be see through. I should invent this.
(Edit: should specify this is aimed at the phones and qr codes system!) That would absolutely ruin the atmosphere for me though, the character of a bar is the bustle and people standing around as well as the chatter you get sometimes.
Removing all that and just having people tap away at their phones while the bar staff silently make drinks, then people walking to a box to grab theirs honestly sounds uninviting.
Nice concept on paper but it’d ruin a bar for me.
People tap on their phones all the time anyways. Many people don’t mind getting their drinks faster and being able to spend time with the people they actually came to to the bar to see instead of having to jockey for a drink. Having an alert tell you when your drink is ready is efficient. Paying from your phone means you’ll buy more because it’s easy. People who don’t want to use their phones can sit and order at the bar.
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Was in a Spoons once and managed to miss the bar queue that was down the side of the bar, where there was a board separating customer and staff side, but like a metre down. Let’s not do that.
I haven’t seen this myself, but yeah, would not be a fan. Totally takes the social aspect out of it.
the youth these days, refusing to mob up. you know they are all thinking about online ordering and droid delivery solutions. how are you supposed to pickpocket or molest anyone anymore?
I’ve never once seen this happen 🤣
That has to be a Starbucks.
