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[Drinking] What is your preferred way of ordering drinks in a pub/bar?

What is your preferred way of ordering drinks in a pub/bar?

  • Traditional - scrum at the bar, catching the eye with the occasional "He's been waitng longer"

    Votes: 123 60.9%
  • Single file queue - taking turns in order of arrival

    Votes: 20 9.9%
  • Table service - waiter - ordering with a real, live person

    Votes: 16 7.9%
  • Table service - QR code - scan, order and pay. Hope the drinks then turn up

    Votes: 43 21.3%

  • Total voters
    202








Sid and the Sharknados

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Sep 4, 2022
5,595
Darlington
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.
 




beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius
Jul 21, 2003
35,946
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
15,881
Get someone else to do it - and pay for them :thumbsup:
 


Cotton Socks

Skint Supporter
Feb 20, 2017
2,078
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. :lolol:
 


Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle
NSC Patron
Oct 8, 2003
55,684
Faversham
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).
 






Dec 29, 2011
8,198
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 😂
 






Albion my Albion

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Feb 6, 2016
19,570
Indiana, USA
(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).

and paid for by the owner or another patron. And a back massage with massage oils delivered by the naked lady.
 


Zeberdi

“Vorsprung durch Technik”
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Oct 20, 2022
6,686


South Stand Bonfire

Who lit that match then?
NSC Patron
Jan 24, 2009
2,489
Shoreham-a-la-mer
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.
 










Sid and the Sharknados

Well-known member
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Sep 4, 2022
5,595
Darlington
a single file queue means you're probably somewhere awfully touristy,
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.
 






Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash
Jul 6, 2003
72,178
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
 


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