Pubs open

[Petcha]

I also enjoy asking my friends in other countries to send me random drinks

 

[marty21]

The pub had a really nice system. QR code on the table took your phone to their website which had their complete menu (including beers) and you could just order there.

They had that in the new Hackney pub I went to over the weekend although I didn't see it when the told me to order via the app, and went looking for an app and not finding it, when the bar was a few feet away.

Eventually saw the code thingy on the table though, worked fine tbf.

 

[mx wcfc]

I appreciate table service is necessary but I like to take a look at the pumps to get a feel for what beers are on. Staff often forget or don't know anything about them.

My pub app has reasonable descriptions of the ales, though Sunday being a bit out of practice these days I nearly made the mistake of buying one of those camouflaged Greene King beers (it said Westgate Brewer”on the app). Fortunately I checked on the internet.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I'm loving the app system. Hopefully the days of macho dicks muscling in at the bar are behind us

I love the apps and table service. It's probably the only thing I am enjoying about pubs these days. I am hoping this will be a permanent change.

 

[Orang Utan]

I really don't like enforced table service. It is what it is but I can't wait for that rule to be gone whenever it happens.

It’s hard to get drunk too. By the time you’ve got round to ordering another drink, you’ve come down off the first on

 

[hash tag]

I am no fan of greene king pubs. never the less I have reluctantly downloaded their app - there are no cask ales showing on
my pub of choice I don't want yet more apps clogging up my phone or milking my data. I want to speak to real people,
I like speaking with real people

 

[mx wcfc]

I love the apps and table service. It's probably the only thing I am enjoying about pubs these days. I am hoping this will be a permanent change.

Talking to one of the staff at the Queen the other day, they said they loved it too. No more people waving and shouting at the bar. Just clear orders, served in order, and no old gits like me still paying cash. No messing around with card machines. The bar staff don’t get involved in payment at all. I’m “not sure I like it”.

 

[hash tag]

I guess you could be sat in a pub and ordering by app and have your drink delivered half an hour later.
Bring back real people with real beer.

 

[mx wcfc]

It’s hard to get drunk too. By the time you’ve got round to ordering another drink, you’ve come down off the first on

Just order another one when you’re half way down the first. Depending on how busy it is. I’ve been downing the last drop of one pint just as the next is presented to me on a tray. So the opposite- not even a breather between pints.

 

[Teaboy]

I think in the future (and hopefully not before long) there will be a place for both options. Order at table and order at the bar. Those that have invested in an app system will surely stay this way (as spoons were doing pre-covid anyway).

It's the places that have not not gone down the app route which likely revert back to old ways because table service is far more labour intensive that order at bar. Margins were tight enough anyway without having to pay extra front of house staff.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Bollocks to table service. At the bar you’d chat to people you wouldn’t normally be stood next to chatting. A bar chat is the pub experience for me.

 

[Orang Utan]

Bollocks to table service. At the bar you’d chat to people you wouldn’t normally be stood next to chatting. A bar chat is the pub experience for me.

Not for everyone though. I agree that flexibility is the way forward. Would make the bar less jostly for those who want the bantz

 

[hash tag]

I am not sure my elderly inlaws could download an app yet alone use it; my ma in law certainly couldn't. Age discrimination and exclusion,
thats what it is.

 

[hash tag]

Just when you thought things could not get any worse. Checking out a few places for lunch tomorrow. One of the locals
is now a brewdog thing - for goodness sake, whats the world coming to!

 

[marty21]

It’s hard to get drunk too. By the time you’ve got round to ordering another drink, you’ve come down off the first on

Order 2 at once dude !

 

[Orang Utan]

Order 2 at once dude !

D’oh!

 

[marty21]

I am not sure my elderly inlaws could download an app yet alone use it; my ma in law certainly couldn't. Age discrimination and exclusion,
thats what it is.

Tbf to my local, they have an app , I think (I haven't used it) but basically take your order & will take cash money too.

 

[William of Walworth]

I am not sure my elderly inlaws could download an app yet alone use it; my ma in law certainly couldn't. Age discrimination and exclusion,
thats what it is.

I am that elderly inlaw of yours!!!

I have no smartphone, and never have had one, and what the fuck's an "app" anyway?

 

[William of Walworth]

This evening,, at the pub table, I ordered off the barman and barmaid who went to and fro between bar and tables, and I got to have a bit of a chat as well as enjoy the beer

It helped them and me that it was far from busy today, I suppose .......

 

[5t3IIa]

No pub this evening. It is precisely 1 hour (60 minutes) until I will be swilling bucks fizz (prosecco and tropical fruit juice) on my garden bench

 

[Orang Utan]

Saw the first lot of fancy dressed wankers on a pub crawl today - all dressed as jockeys. One of the had just left the New Inn and was about to have a piss in broad daylight on someone’s house. Back to normal then. Wish I’d yelled at the cunt but was wheezing on my bike.

 

[5t3IIa]

Sun isn’t out or anything at all.

 

[Numbers]

Saw the first lot of fancy dressed wankers on a pub crawl today - all dressed as jockeys. One of the had just left the New Inn and was about to have a piss in broad daylight on someone’s house. Back to normal then. Wish I’d yelled at the cunt but was wheezing on my bike.

Re: first sentence, why are they wankers?

 

[Orang Utan]

Been in 2 pubs today + a restaurant for lunch (+ Dub London exhibition at Museum of London), I’m/we’re so merry, no doubt in days of yore we’d be calling it on and getting proper buckled, but we’re heading home cos our feet hurt

Re: first sentence, why are they wankers?

They’re very annoying and often intimidating as they’re mostly groups of obnoxious men behaving like twats

 

[Sue]

View attachment 270655
Sun isn’t out or anything at all.

You have your own sunshine right there .

 

[hash tag]

Saw the first lot of fancy dressed wankers on a pub crawl today - all dressed as jockeys. One of the had just left the New Inn and was about to have a piss in broad daylight on someone’s house. Back to normal then. Wish I’d yelled at the cunt but was wheezing on my bike.

Young people out and enjoying themselves. Even I can remember that.

 

[Orang Utan]

Young people out and enjoying themselves. Even I can remember that.

And pissing on people’s front doors.

 

[hash tag]

They were not doing that. It's far to early in the day and still daylight. Shame there's no phone boxes around any more

 

[Orang Utan]

They were not doing that. It's far to early in the day and still daylight. Shame there's no phone boxes around any more

Yes they were and it’s not too early - they were three pints in. And pissing in a phone box is just as bad. They were right next to the pub.

 

[hash tag]

Oh dear. That's so not good.