„Es ist lächerlich“: Gastwirte sind verwirrt über die zunehmende Anzahl von Warteschlangen, bevor sie bedient werden | Kneipen
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/31/publicans-bemused-single-file-queue-trend-pubs
Von afrophysicist
„Es ist lächerlich“: Gastwirte sind verwirrt über die zunehmende Anzahl von Warteschlangen, bevor sie bedient werden | Kneipen
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/31/publicans-bemused-single-file-queue-trend-pubs
Von afrophysicist
8 Kommentare
Then tell people! „Hey don’t single file queue you block the walk way, use the whole bar“
>“We’ve trained our guys to say: ‘Please come forward, don’t queue,’” he said.
I like the idea they had to train staff to say that, as if they were just stood at an empty bar looking confused as to why there were no customers to serve.
Given that many pubs are facing existential threats, I’d say inconsequential changes in customer behaviour probably isn’t a battle worth fighting…
I feel like nature is healing – I haven’t seen a daft bar queue for quite a while now. Good riddance to them, nothing like being forced to awkwardly stand in the middle of the room, your arse next to some poor drinker’s head because the queue goes between the tables, constantly having to shuffle out the way of people trying to break through this human barrier cutting the pub in half.
Why are they „bemused“ by this?
When you go to any shop, you form a queue.
Music venue? Queue.
Literally everywhere else you go you form a queue and wait to be served.
Pubs? How dare you make me queue! I should be able to wave a tenner at the staff and get served before someone else!
It is odd the few times I’ve seen it. Like, the bar is the queue
Probably one of the last remaining strange covid hangovers.
I do feel like I get unfairly prioritised sometimes at a busy bar as someone who stands out a bit. I’ve definitely noticed some people having a really hard time catching the bar staff’s eye compared to myself.