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.

[royfromaus]

TTT, is your pub seriously thinking about asking their customers to pay monthly for the app?

[ToraToraTora]

I don't have a pub, I'm helping my club secretary purpose an app, we are doing it ourselves. Fortunately he's IT literate, all he has to do is maintain the list of orderable items and the prices. Ours is simpler because we don't do food.

[THECORBYLOON]

ROY, if you read the link in my 1:38 post, you can see some of the charges for the apps.

[THECORBYLOON]

The fees are paid by the business owners, not the customer's.

[THECORBYLOON]

Customers not customer's.

[ToraToraTora]

Roy, dunno why you are treating this any different from any other business expense roy. The customers pay in the end for the whole show. It's been demonstrated in normal times that apps increase business:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/table-service-app-boosts-sales-at-wetherspoons-rj320jtb3
so any costs should easly be recovered. Sorry gromit that link mentions an unmentionable.
from the article:
"Berenberg upgraded Wetherspoon from “sell” to “hold”, saying that a new app that enables customers to order food and drink from their seats had led to an “exceptional” surge in sales."

[ToraToraTora]

I suspect that once they realise that table ordering apps increase sales they'll be in most pubs, even in Gromit's town!

[Bazile]

What's the point of having guidelines , when they are just that - guidelines , which you can ignore.

Wouldn't it have been better to have certain rules , which if not followed , carried a sanction ?

[teacake44]

The only way you will possibly impose any rules in pubs is to have an army of bouncers, and most pubs can't afford such, once some folk get drink down them their not going to listen to anyone. We have inherited armies of jobsworths over the last 4 months, telling us were to go, were to stand, when we can go in, try that in a pub after a period of drinking and..... The only practical thing one can do is keep the pub as clean as possible during opening and after, other than that your flogging a dead horse.

[woofgang]

Bazile there are still some sanctionable behaviours to do with large groups of people in public spaces. I suspect that if enforcement is needed then local authority environmental health can deal with it under existing legislation.

[youngmafbog]

"There are no apps currently available."

Never been to a 'Spoons then.

[ToraToraTora]

you cant say that YMB, Gromit has banned any mention of the Church of the holy Tim

[ToraToraTora]

gromit seems to have abandoned this thread, wonder why!