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[Drinking] What is your preferred way of ordering drinks in a pub/bar?
- Thread starter Bozza
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clapham_gull
Legacy Fan
- Aug 20, 2003
- 25,991
I'd find another pub if your experience drives you to create a poll.
Personally I go the pub when it isn't busy, nothing better than a cheeky pint / glass of wine "out of hours".
Personally I go the pub when it isn't busy, nothing better than a cheeky pint / glass of wine "out of hours".
I say "single file queue", but what I actually mean is the "traditional scrum at the bar" where people are aware/polite enough for everybody to more or less get served in order.
Unless I luck out massively and get served before about 20 people by pure luck of standing at the right place when the bar staff happens to look up. I'll take that every day of the week.
Unless I luck out massively and get served before about 20 people by pure luck of standing at the right place when the bar staff happens to look up. I'll take that every day of the week.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 36,065
a single file queue means you're probably somewhere awfully touristy, waiter service you're in a restaurant.
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 16,302
Get someone else to do it - and pay for them 
Cotton Socks
Skint Supporter
- Feb 20, 2017
- 2,215
Scrum at the bar. It's still a queue, good bar staff will mentally note the order of the queue. Us customers will also mentally note the order of the queue & if the staff get it wrong,, will point out the person that was before us should be served first. Especially if someone further back of the imaginary queue has tried to push in front. That's when we do the eye contact with the staff & gently nod towards the people that were actually next in he queue.
QR code & table for Spoons.
QR code & table for Spoons.
One may 'prefer' all day long but if one must go into a pub/bar then one has to take what's on offer.
If invited to advise a young entrepreneur on a new venture, I would tell them to research their market. What I prefer is neither here nor there. Becuse I won't be drinking in your pub/bar.
(My personal preference would be to be delivered my selection on a tray to my lounger, by a naked lady, with the order taken by telepathy).
If invited to advise a young entrepreneur on a new venture, I would tell them to research their market. What I prefer is neither here nor there. Becuse I won't be drinking in your pub/bar.
(My personal preference would be to be delivered my selection on a tray to my lounger, by a naked lady, with the order taken by telepathy).
schmunk
Well-used member
These real, live people providing table service - are they, perhaps, topless? 
GingerBeerMan
3-0
- Dec 29, 2011
- 8,217
Single file queue is becoming more common I've read. I haven't seen it myself but the way the UK is heading it wouldn't surprise me 
That works for me
and paid for by the owner or another patron. And a back massage with massage oils delivered by the naked lady.
- Oct 20, 2022
- 7,306
Ask a mate
The Waterside pub in Fulham before last years Chelsea game were very helpful and even though our table was 3m from the bar, they provided waiter service for drinks at our table……but added on 10% on the bill at the end for doing so without telling us. We would have paid it as a tip but that was sneaky.
The Maharajah of Sydney
Well-known member
I like the simplicity that the Spanish employ at their local markets.
Walk up to the stall, ask "who's last" ?
That person sticks their hand up, so you know you're after them.
Next person arrives at the stall, asks the question and you raise your hand and so on.
Walk up to the stall, ask "who's last" ?
That person sticks their hand up, so you know you're after them.
Next person arrives at the stall, asks the question and you raise your hand and so on.
- May 8, 2018
- 10,849
Is this a snide Wetherspoons 2 thread, getting people to reveal where they really drink?
I guessing if it doesn’t work the next poll with be, “Walking to the Toilet, how far is too far”?
I guessing if it doesn’t work the next poll with be, “Walking to the Toilet, how far is too far”?
Or, at my local Greene King pub. Albeit I think that's largely by default because the way the bar's laid out and people having to walk past it to get anywhere means people tend to join a queue from the till running along the bar rather than milling around.
Pretty sure people used to queue in single file at the Wetherspoons opposite my uni (we're talking about 10-15 years ago here). Although I say "single file", I think there used to be a separate queue for each till and if you got the line with the pissed lad trying to order about 12 cocktails then bad luck. No obvious reason why that should of been the case there, we didn't do it at any of the other pubs we went to at the time as far as I can remember.
Scrum at the bar was fine on Saturday pre match and it was a busy pub.
I must admit that when I’m in a Spoons at the airport I order on the app and it always turns up quickly.
I must admit that when I’m in a Spoons at the airport I order on the app and it always turns up quickly.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,740
I thought the table service offered by pubs in the post-lockdown period of the pandemic worked particularly well. None of the usual johnny foreigner table service nonsense of trying to catch the waiting staff's eye, both to order and to pay. They were on it, like they'd been doing it all their working lives.
Love Spoons app for table ordering, especially at an airport when travelling alone. No need to lose your table or leave your luggage, and in my experience the order always arrives in double quick time.
Hate Spoons when day-trippers unilaterally decide to form a queue. Invariably the queue breaks down into shambolic queueing at both ends of the queue and an ill-tempered fracas ensues
Love Spoons app for table ordering, especially at an airport when travelling alone. No need to lose your table or leave your luggage, and in my experience the order always arrives in double quick time.
Hate Spoons when day-trippers unilaterally decide to form a queue. Invariably the queue breaks down into shambolic queueing at both ends of the queue and an ill-tempered fracas ensues