Do you have children? Do you like to eat out?

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The Weaherspoons chain has introduced a policy limiting adults with children to two alcoholic drinks and refusing to serve soft drinks to limit their stay - full article here

So what if the driver wants a soft drink rather than an alcoholic drink?

...and pubs claim to make most of their money from food, yet they can turn away groups who are more likely to be eating than drinking Confused

A badly thought-out scheme, I think
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GJF · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2007 Posts: 894

Not surprised, as the big pub owners prefer to move "bums" from seats that aren't very active and you are not liable to be drinking with children around.

Anita · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 6:24 pm Post subject:

I can understand why they chose to take this step but I have reservations about it. I've sat in Wetherspoons and had lunch on a few occasions and whilst its far from the most salubrious of venues it does offer reasonably priced food and in my home town it is the only high street pub that allows children at all.

I would refuse on principal to eat anywhere that thought they knew better than I how to moderate my alcohol consumption and so they will lose my business.

Instead I shall continue as we normally do and enjoy a light lunch at a small gastro pub out of town. One that welcomes families with well behaved children, serves adult meals in child portions and that allows my wife and I to enjoy a glass of wine whilst we eat.

Any pub or gastro pub that fails to cater for families is foolish in the extreme. Pubs make money from food, far more than they do from alcohol and if they think excluding a major target market is good business then they're idiots.
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GPS_fan · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject:

How do they intend to police which adults at the bar do or do not have children when they buy drinks?

Or even if somebody is buying the first or second round?

Most people behind a bar these days don't even seem to notice who's next in line, so how they're supposed to remember who might have already bought drinks is beyond me.

Why should an adult be forced to drink alcohol whilst out with children if a pub decides not to serve that adult soft drinks or coffee?

If I am out, it should be up to me where I eat and how much I drink - alcoholic or otherwise - and if kids are a problem, why not ban them altogether?

Oh, but they're obviously not a problem for a pre-defined length of time during which the adults are spending the most money.

Besides which, Wetherspoons' pubs seem dingy and dirty compared with a lot of others.
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GPS_fan · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject:

...furthermore, this policy goes completely and utterly against what Wetherspoons claim on their own corporate web site

Skippy · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:08 am Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:46 am Post subject:

GPS_fan · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:07 pm Post subject:

I would have thought, also, that by the time any food has been ordered, arrived at the table and been consumed, most adults with children will be more than ready to leave a pub no matter how well behaved those children are.
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DennisN · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject:

7andy · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 02, 2005 Posts: 74

The aforementioned pub chain is quibbling over whether parents should have three or more drinks whilst with their children, quoting some kind of 'caring' philosophy.
So what about Friday and Saturday night, with a crowd of loutish, noisy yobs, drunk beyond measure, and generally making a nuisance of themselves inside and outside the pub - they appear quite happy to serve these people until they fall down. Where is their 'caring' philosophy now? Sounds like they care more about profits than children to me!

Cheers, 7&Y

MaFt · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:15 am Post subject:

as well as more profit on food than beers they also make FAR more profit on soft drinks than they do beers/wines/spirits...

if they don't want my money then sod them to be fair Smile

i much prefer 'two for one' pubs anyway Smile

MaFt

philpugh · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject:

JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject:

"Food & Drink - Two For One" available for download here Laughing

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