Dogs in eating establishments

[sprayer]

I ask this question out of interest, yesterday I was in a village pub which has two bars, one that is used as a restaurant the other used as the public bar where dogs are allowed,
a party of four people came in wanting lunch and was told that the restaurant was full but a table may become free in about half an hour or so the people said they did not mind having their lunch in the public bar to save waiting to which the landlady said OK, the lunches were served to their table but a few minuets later a local guy walked in with his dog, the people that were eating complained saying dogs are not allowed in any eating area to which the landlady replied ''dogs are not allowed in the restaurant side but have always been allowed in the public bar'' the people left threatening to report the pub to hygiene standards. So who was right?

[oldexpat]

Did you catch the dogs name by any chance?

[NoMercy]

It wouldn't bother me if the party at the next table had a dog. People are just so far up their own ar5es sometimes!

[sandyRoe]

I believe that dogs are quite common in Korean eating establishments

[ummmm]

Some pubs let dogs in. They chose to eat in the public bar....they should have waited for a table to become free.

[eddiemcc]

the landlady was right providing the customers knew of the dog rule before or if there were signs saying dogs are allowed in the public bar. they problably just wanted a free meal. did they not think why noone else was eating in the bar?

[ChuckFickens]

There are no laws stopping people taking dogs into a restaurant, in fact here is a list of places that welcome dogs...

http://www.dogfriendl...+Search&Submit=search

The people eating were being awkward in my opinion, If it had been me running the pub (which I have done in the past) I would have told the people to get out and refused to serve them anymore.

[ummmm]

After they had paid....

[ChuckFickens]

I'd have been tempted to remove the food from the table and told them to clear off without paying to be honest.

[RATTER15]

We take our 3 wolfhounds into the bar where they also serve meals, its never been a problem and my dogs aren't exactly the smallest of dogs.

[NoMercy]

I went to a lovely country pub a few years back called the Cottage Of Content. They had a dog lying by the fire and a cat that came and sat on my table and nuzzled up to me. Of course that prompted streaming eyes and a sneezing fit, but I still thought it was really charming.

[piggynose]

so i should ok to bring along my pet snake then?

[NoMercy]

Depends if "snake" is a euphemism...

[society]

I’m curious to know what would happen if the dog /s after smelling the foods starts attacking the peoples’ meals and ‘wolfing’ it down.

[NoMercy]

It jumped up onto my table. lol

[NoMercy]

Down boy!!

[sprayer]

Thank you all for your very interesting answers, I myself have no objections to having well behaved dogs in pubs but I was more interested in the legal side of it, but it seems
that taking dogs into eating places is entirely at the discretion of the premises owner
so I have learnt something new today.

[ChuckFickens]

"I’m curious to know what would happen if the dog /s after smelling the foods starts attacking the peoples’ meals and ‘wolfing’ it down."

The owners of the dogs would be told to leave the premises (and take the dog with them)... exactly the same as the parents of a child would be asked to leave if their child was causing a disruption and they couldn't keep it under control.

A pub is there for the benefit of all customers, the landlord can impose whatever conditions they like when it comes to allowing dogs, snakes, elephants.... whatever into the pub, but if anyone is causing a disruption to other customers either by their own actions or those of their pet they would be asked to leave.

[society]

Surely I bet that'd be the case. I can just imagine the chaos there'd be...
I’ve witnessed similar incidents happened at home. In those incidents the dog ‘grabs’ the food and ran of with it, as though he knew he was doing something un-fetching. Lol