When will we be able to go to the pub again?

When will we be able to go to the pub again?

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TheJimi

24,860 posts

242 months

Monday 26th April 2021
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The Mad Monk said:
Uggers said:
Our glorious leader has now allowed us to meet up to 6 people from 2 different households inside without alcohol, up to 8pm.

I have no idea how many households can meet outside in a beer garden, in Scotland, in April. But good news we will be allowed to drink at a pre booked table upto 10pm, outside in Scotland, in April.

We should be so grateful.

Maybe soon it won't be illegal to see my double jabbed parents in their own home. I cannot wait for her to allow me to do this.
Is there some point which you are striving to make?
I think he articulates his point just fine.

Uggers

2,223 posts

210 months

Monday 26th April 2021
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sherman said:
Tell your parents to open the back door and shut the front window curtains. You go round the back and sit inside like everyone else is doing.
Of course. I am the same as most others and have seen them many times and they have visited us. I should have used a smiley as it's a bit subtle.


Cotty said:
So if the 6 have a alcoholic drink after 8pm your are all going to die, got it. nuts
Oh no, you cannot have alcohol inside at all. Just that if you are inside the pub, it must be for non alcoholic drinks, maybe food too, who the fk knows!

You can drink alcoholic drinks outside, but only till 10 with 6 people but not sure if it has to be between just 2 households. But by that point most will have half frozen and gone home anyway. Especially after the novelty of the first few nights out wear off.

The Mad Monk said:
Is there some point which you are striving to make?
I'm pointing out that if customers don't get fed up of sitting inside draughty tents with improvised heating. The pubs will with twice the staffing costs and the crazy bills incurred trying to heat the outside of Scotland in April.

Tony427

2,873 posts

232 months

Monday 26th April 2021
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Cotty said:
Uggers said:
Our glorious leader has now allowed us to meet up to 6 people from 2 different households inside without alcohol, up to 8pm.
So if the 6 have a alcoholic drink after 8pm your are all going to die, got it. nuts
Not if you hang a Scotch egg round your neck. Scotch eggs are the Covids' Kryptonite.

bristolracer

5,527 posts

148 months

Monday 26th April 2021
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Uggers said:
I'm pointing out that if customers don't get fed up of sitting inside draughty tents with improvised heating. The pubs will with twice the staffing costs and the crazy bills incurred trying to heat the outside of Scotland in April.
Nah
Just get the customers to bring their own heaters
What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-5688...

ColdoRS

1,796 posts

126 months

Monday 26th April 2021
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I went for a couple of pints after getting a haircut this afternoon, it’s a bit of a tradition, I don’t really ever sit in a pub myself having a quiet pint - unless I’ve just had my haircut.

Anyway, it was a faff, although once my first pint arrived at the table it was OK.

The pub I chose had developed its own app for ordering - totally over the top, nonsense, waste of time. I just wanted a pint. I actually asked the lad who greeted me ‘Hi mate, can I have a pint of Kronenbourg please?’ And he replied telling me about the app and that I have to order through the app...blah blah.... he knew what I wanted and he was the one pouring it and bringing it to my table but he’s obviously been instructed to force the app. Typical overblown coronavirus common sense out the window situation.

okgo

37,857 posts

197 months

Monday 26th April 2021
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I must say the apps are mostly dogst.

Obviously in this day and age, it is easy to make an app that is very well put together and takes moment to transact, uber, deliveroo, amazon, ebay etc - all very easy to find what you want, and buy it using apple/google pay in moments. How then has this not got to pubs? In a few I've been over the last year they've got QR codes (2013 called) which take you to some wk mobile website which needs full card details each time and often just crashes anyway, resulting in you needing to order manually.

I find it amazing that the apps are so bad. I personally think roaming staff are far more effective, especially when there are not people at the bar, it should be easy to have two people just constantly pulling pints. The sooner pubs realise they need to operate the bar like they would the kitchen, the better.

Promised Land

4,699 posts

208 months

Monday 26th April 2021
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ColdoRS said:
The pub I chose had developed its own app for ordering - totally over the top, nonsense, waste of time. I just wanted a pint. I actually asked the lad who greeted me ‘Hi mate, can I have a pint of Kronenbourg please?’ And he replied telling me about the app and that I have to order through the app...blah blah.... he knew what I wanted and he was the one pouring it and bringing it to my table but he’s obviously been instructed to force the app. Typical overblown coronavirus common sense out the window situation.
So what happens if like me you don’t always take your phone out at weekends as there’s no need for it if you’re going into a pub? Or you’re of the older generation who don’t own one?

Would they pour you a drink then when you asked him?

Maximus_Meridius101

1,222 posts

36 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Uggers

2,223 posts

210 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Maximus_Meridius101 said:
We don’t want to go the way India did. Every week we wait, thousands more people will be jabbed, and we stand a better chance of not going the way India did. So a few more weeks without full opening, should buy us more a bit more wiggle room ( assuming the vaccines do work exactly as hoped ).
Ah right just a few more weeks, just to make sure......

croyde

22,701 posts

229 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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India is on all the news channels constantly. Little talk of the situation now in the UK. I wonder what's going on here, mmmm.

If you take the size of the population of India, then the 'horrific' numbers of infected and dead, you'll see that they are far below the percentages from when the UK was at its worst.

Then, as the poster above mentioned, a country with so many people that it's impossible to socially distance, even if they wanted to, large families living in less than ideal housing, bad sanitation, ropey health service blah blah blah, what could possibly go wrong.

It's awful but why is it our main story every night.

Back to the pubs. I can't be arsed until they are proper pubs again.

Apps, booking, masks, being told who you can or cannot sit with, all at £5 a pint! No thanks.

I'll sit in my warmish flat with my £8 bottle of wine or 3 Cobras for a fiver.

Uggers

2,223 posts

210 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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By and large the businesses that are the most welcoming and with the least resistance to actually going there are more successful.

Fingers crossed in 5 years time we will see an old QR code poster in a pub somewhere. We will look back at it as a time where we had to be seen to be doing something, anything, regardless of the evidence or the costs of implementing it.

n3il123

2,602 posts

212 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Uggers said:
Fingers crossed in 5 years time we will see an old QR code poster in a pub somewhere. We will look back at it as a time where we had to be seen to be doing something, anything, regardless of the evidence or the costs of implementing it.
And by that time someone will have worked out that the poster actually cost £'000's to make in some dodgy deal and that the whole tax take from that pub for the last 5 years is still paying for the poster.

djc206

12,244 posts

124 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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anonymous said:
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I was asked yesterday. Said I didn’t have the app (true), was told they’d bring a form and pen to me, they didn’t. My local has the forms and QR code on the table by the back gate, onus upon guests to check in, not enforced.

Aren’t some of them just taking your details from your booking?

21st Century Man

40,660 posts

247 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Driving through Matlock Bath yesterday, which is a very popular tourist/day trip venue, like a seaside town but inland, and it was looking like it was getting back to normal. However, I spotted a couple of Covid Marshalls on patrol, all togged up like Special Constables but with the word Covid instead of Police, front/back and on their hats. Ridiculous.

n3il123

2,602 posts

212 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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anonymous said:
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Short term contract? All the restrictions should be lifted by 21st June if we're following the science surely...

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Cotty

39,389 posts

283 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Promised Land said:
ColdoRS said:
The pub I chose had developed its own app for ordering - totally over the top, nonsense, waste of time. I just wanted a pint. I actually asked the lad who greeted me ‘Hi mate, can I have a pint of Kronenbourg please?’ And he replied telling me about the app and that I have to order through the app...blah blah.... he knew what I wanted and he was the one pouring it and bringing it to my table but he’s obviously been instructed to force the app. Typical overblown coronavirus common sense out the window situation.
So what happens if like me you don’t always take your phone out at weekends as there’s no need for it if you’re going into a pub? Or you’re of the older generation who don’t own one?

Would they pour you a drink then when you asked him?
My mother and lots of her freinds don's have smart phones. So no online table booking or app ordering. What are they going to do turn paying customers away?

sherman

13,067 posts

214 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Cotty said:
My mother and lots of her freinds don's have smart phones. So no online table booking or app ordering. What are they going to do turn paying customers away?
If its a greeneking pub. They have a tablet with the booking system by the waiter station. The staff will fill in the name, phone number, entry and exit times of the customer if they cant use the QR code.
They will just have to order old school and flag the server down and get a bill at the end for the tab for the table or pay as they go.

Electronicpants

2,623 posts

187 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Tuesday 27th April 2021
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Electronicpants said:
21st June.
It was a rhetorical question. The roadmap was set out a long time ago go and appears to me to be over cautious.

I was in a zoom meeting yesterday and my colleague was doing it from a pub in Duquesa in Spain. They’ve far less restrictions there from what I could see behind him, despite being far behind in their recovery.