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.
Whole good bar staff should be able to do this, there’s a degree of etiquette from the punters that’s always been in play too, if you know someone was up the ramp before you, you tell the bar staff if they try and serve you first.
I wonder if designating like 8 lines would help the issue. Portland Oregon (US) has this same lining up at the bar issue.
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.
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.
Shit food pubs….like Marstons and Greenking. It happens in them.
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)?
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.
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.
If people don’t want to form a line do you think they’ll download an app? I can already hear the boomers raging on FB about it.
I’m a millennial and there’s 0% chance I’m downloading an app riddled with trackers and adverts just to order a drink.
Numbered ticket dispenser is another option allowing crowding the bar yet orderly sequencing.
