Getting A Pint In A Pub - You Need An App.

[Gromit]

Obviously that is never going to happen.
There are no apps currently available.
Landlords do not know how to implement them.

Are the Governments advisors not living in the real world? Do the not realise there isn’t a chance of that working.

After the Corona App fiasco have they not learned anything.

[piggynose]

App in wspoons. Wot bout the free samples before you buy? Will they be scrapped?

[andres]

Good grief ! You need an app. to order. Give out personal details. Keep your social distance. Possibly have to wear masks and sit behind plastic screens. Don't forget the toilet issue either. Will the toilets and urinals be cleaned after every person? Don't touch that metal chair or door handle and for goodness sake don't cough or sneeze!

[teacake44]

However many pubs are still going out there now, 50% of them will be gone by the end of the year, pubs need to be packed to make them pay, and that just isn't going to be. Pubs near football grounds will be the first, if not already.

[barry1010]

I always use the app in Spoons. You get served a lot quicker

[ToraToraTora]

yeah I'll probably give it a couple of weeks before going out to let the novelty die down. It'll be like NYE to start with anyway (amateur night) !

[teacake44]

22.27 And really not knowing whether the glasses are clean.

[Gromit]

// App writers will knock one up in a matter of hours from a skeleton. //

No they won’t. Even if they did, your average landlord in the middle of nowhere would be clueless, as would most of his (or her) customers.

It just isn’t going to happen. Pubs will open on 4th July, but next to no one will use an app.
They will probably resort to an A4 piece of paper with “pOur me a Pint” crayoned on it by their 5 year old grand child, complete with a ubiquitous rainbow.

[Buenchico]

Greene King, with over 2700 premises, will have an app available
https://www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk/order-and-pay-app/
but they'll also take orders at the bar
https://www.greeneking.co.uk/newsroom/latest-news/greene-king-launches-pub-safe-as-it-pledges-five-commitments-to-put-customer-and-team-safety-first/

[tomus42]

// these daft rules imposed by idiots will be universally ignored. //

That's good then. If the rules are daft ones imposed by idiots, they should be ignored.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit, apps are like web sites they are based mostly on working templates. Bit of branding item list, price list and wallop! sorted. TBF though only the chains will bother and some of the clubs.

[Buenchico]

>>> but next to no one will use an app

Many pub customers were already using apps before the lockdown, Gromit. I was in a Wetherspoon pub pub in Thetford last year and noticed that, of roughly 20 tables within my view, there were only two who didn't appear to be ordering their food and drinks using the Wetherspoon's app.

[teacake44]

All shopping centres and all shops ( who have them) have closed toilets, so what's the position with pubs? there's no way they can keep them shut.

[Gromit]

Most peoples‘ local pub isn’t in the south east Run by a huge chain with thousands of pubs.
In my town we do not have a wetherspoons, greene king or any other crappy conglomerate.
We have independent breweries and sole landlords or tenants. They are not backed by multi-million pound concerns, they are small businesses. They cannot and will not follow the daft regulations drawn up by idiots who have never been in a proper pub in their lives.

[Buenchico]

TC44:
Greene King's way of dealing with the toilet problem (which I'm sure others will follow too) is to put a lock on the outer toilet door (rather than on individual cubicles), with a sign requesting that users lock that door after entering. That will ensure that a 'one out, one in' policy is followed.

[ichkeria]

There are apps available. Many pubs can’t use them reliably because signal strength is poor or non existent.
So a lot will use a mixture of order at table or order online.
To be honest it’s a change I hope catches on. I’ve never liked our “crowd round the bar” culture

[Gromit]

Please stop going on about Wetherspoons.
They are not typical English pubs, and they are not where most people drink. There isn’t one in my town.
They are a £billion outfit, can afford apps, and are generally large, when most local pubs aren't. And I definitely won’t be going anywhere near one of their ghastly establishments on 4th July or soon thereafter, if I can help it.

[teacake44]

Well I can't really see that working, but lets say it does up to a point, until the queue starts building, but unless they sort something out along the same lines in shopping centres, especially when people have kids with them plus the older generation, who won't go out unless they know there's a toilet at hand, then shops are not going to make it. Plus all the shops I've been in have closed there changing rooms, some people will not buy unless they can try, who wants to keep going back and forth taking stuff back?

[andres]

Also with regard to the toilets it does say that they will be cleaned every 15 mins. I can' t see many of the staff opting for that .

[tomus42]

//I’ve never liked our “crowd round the bar” culture //

Me neither. If part of the new normal means d.heads aren't allowed to clog up the bar area making it hard for normal people to buy a drink, then that's all good.

[Jackdaw33]

Like sanmac @ 22.18 I do not have a smart phone. I have no need of one and am not going to lash out on one just so I can go for a pint.