A ‘campaign’ has called on the British public to put an end to a ‘worrying’ new trend of forming a single file queue in pubs and instead restore the age-old tradition of queueing at the bar.

So we can stand around at the bar for twenty minutes being overlooked whilst gasping for a drink? No thanks.

  • rjek ( rjek@feddit.uk ) 
    24·
    3 years ago

    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.

    • JeffCraig ( JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com ) 
      7·
      3 years ago

      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.

    • NuPNuA ( NuPNuA@lemm.ee ) English
      6·
      3 years ago

      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.

  • 72bitvirgins ( 72bitvirgins@lemmynsfw.com ) 
    4·
    3 years ago

    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)?

    • dad ( dad@feddit.uk ) English
      15·
      3 years ago

      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!

    • NuPNuA ( NuPNuA@lemm.ee ) English
      4·
      3 years ago

      I’ve personally not seen this queueing phenomenon in any pub post Covid. The traditional system is you squeeze into any gap at the bar, the bar staff should be keeping track of the order people arrive, when it comes to you, you order, they pour, you pay and take your drinks back to your table.

  • NuPNuA ( NuPNuA@lemm.ee ) English
    3·
    3 years ago

    I’ve been out a lot this last month due to birthdays, a holiday and other events. I haven’t seen this happen in one pub, everyone is just up the ramp as normal.

  • SouthEndSunset ( SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee ) English
    1·
    3 years ago

    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.