JD wetherspoon pub bans?

[tufty7]

In the mail today an article about families with children eating out only being allowed two drinks and then being asked to leave? apparantly to stop kids getting bored, is this fair?? Is it not also appropriate to not allow anyone more than they should as well ?? after all drink is involved loads of societies ills, what are your thoughts on the matter ? or are they committing business suicide??

[Drisgirl]

Too bloody right its fair.
I have been in the pub on a Sunday afternonn with my mates and kids are running riot while their parents are getting ****** - which means they get out and we all babysit their kids.

I have always despised this and i am glad that Tim (yes I have met him -Edinburgh Airport -Wetherspoons actually -daughter at Uni there -didnae get a photie -lol cos didnae know who it was until he left -he left knowing me tho -nae surprise there then) inplimented this.
I am sick to the back teeth of buying crisps and juice for whining kids while their parents are scooping.
A pub is a place for adults unless it is for a short time and the kids dont get restless.

[tufty7]

I understand your comments dris, but I too am fed up of going into pubs surrounded by adults acting like children , should they not also be asked to leave after two drinks??

[kp nonuts]

Theres an easy way around this take your own drink in and pour them out under the table then they wont know how many drinks you have had and it will loose them money.

The bunch of t@ssers.

[Metz]

our Spoons is the local for "cheap beer,nearly out of date beer" ,it draws in the bad types from our local estate .. have often seen kids wandering round the pub! yes it's fair..ours will die a death cos of it (hopefully) !!

[kp nonuts]

Mon due I do agree with you metz most spoons are full of alkies buying there cheap fix, the times I have seen them litteraly queing to get in there at 10 am.

But some of them are ok mostly the ones in central london as they tend to charge more there so that keeps them out.

[Drisgirl]

Tufty -thats what i was meaning -its the adults fault.

[Goodsoulette]

Metz, thats an old wives tale, I can't say they were best company I ever workjed for but the old nearly out of date beer is a load of old tosh. I worked for weatherspoons before they started aloowing children access and we took 52 grand a week on a normal week. I dont think the family favtor counts for much, other than annoying those that dont want to eat near kids.

[Goodsoulette]

Seems I have drunk more than I thought, decipher that last post if you can.

[Bewlay Bros]

Pubs are for adults. End of. .

[Metz]

Goodsoulette how come they can sell it so cheap then? :o)

just curious

[Goodsoulette]

Becuase it is bought in sucjh vast quantities. I have never ever seen a barrel of beer, a bottle of spirits or a case of alcopops anywhere near out of date. The guys in head office phone fosters and say we will sell so many million of gallons is such a space of time and they work a deal out with them (and if the pubs don't order that many then they pay a higher rate for it). Also we used to give staff incentives to sell the right beers when we werent hitting the targets, so to make sure they were selling the right ones, we would make sure they mentioned Stella and Carling (and not Fosters and Kronie)when offering lager for example , and if they did mystery shopper would immediately hand that member of staff 50 quid.

I've been out this evening myself so my drinking may not explain this well.

[Metz]

thanks for that :o)
one wives tale out of the way :o)

[123everton]

Pubs are for adults, but why is it I can go abroad and see kids sitting at a table with their parents and eating sensibly whilst here it's all screaming and shouting?

[stewey]

Showing my age here perhaps, but when I was a young gaffer my father took me to a 'Working man's Club'. I think I sat there politely drinking perhaps lemonade while he played a couple of games of billiards. Nowadays, the little rug-rats are running rampant and creating havoc because the parents are only slightly more intelligent than them.......if that's possible.

[Ice.Maiden]

Well this might sound boring coming from a newly-29 year old, but I don't agree with children being in pubs full stop, unless it IS to accompany their parents for a meal - but there are restaurants for that. Is drinking more important than doing something positive with these poor kids? No wonder they turn into louts and hooligans.

[neo.]

There is a whetherspoon near me. Just on the high st, not in town. Its open plan, no separate room for families . Its very anoying coz kiddies are running around all over the place. It shud not be allowed. im not talking about in the afternoons but on the evenings.

Its more like a school than a pub.

[yerbamate]

Pubs are for ADULTS. Children should be home with babysitters.