Pubs when/will they re-open - the Megathread

dotsman

PTH2009 wrote: »

The tab system is a nightmare

when its time to settle the bill it can get messy

How so? there's only a max of 6 people and you are all sitting/ordering together. It's not like there is a surprise 100 extra drinks on the bill that nobody knows anything about.

SB71

dodderangler wrote: »

Stayed 2 hours and was kicked out.
In me own local. So they're all clamping g down no matter who ya are to them

thats shocking, no time limit nonsnese where i was,in fact this is the first ive read where someone had to leave , most people posting stayed the night

hynesie08

dotsman wrote: »

How so? there's only a max of 6 people and you are all sitting/ordering together. It's not like there is a surprise 100 extra drinks on the bill that nobody knows anything about.

You'll have idiots who couldn't hold their drink in a bucket arguing that they only had 6 pints, not 8.

Tab is a much better system than pay per round, hopefully it becomes the standard in future.

Risteard81

I did half seven until a quarter to today. I don't give a damn what that tyrant Holohan or those Martin and Varadkar idiots or fellow travelers think either. If the VFI weren't so utterly spineless they would order all of their members to open immediately.

PTH2009

Still places opening and getting food from takeaways

All pubs should be open

PTH2009

PTH2009 wrote: »

Still places opening and getting food from takeaways

All pubs should be open

Walking around my home town this evening, a few pockets of activity but mostly lifeless. Stuck the head in the door of so-called gastro pubs, not a familiar face found among the booted and suited. Particularly the auld lads out for a quiet pour, who wouldn't dream of going near such phoniness. I kept going, past one bolted traditional pub after another. My blood began to boil, how on god's green earth have they been let go to the wall. A regulated environment where the custodian could look after his regulars and maintain order. Nah, the VFI threw them to the wolves at NPHET. Bunch of bootlickers who abandoned their brief and scarred rural Ireland.

Spanish Eyes

Carnage is coming lol, hopefully not, but going on the reports from those who ventured out last night, there was little observance of any rules apart from sitting at a table.

Ah well good luck to them. Will venture out ourselves during the week at 3pm and leave before the crowds arrive. We will enjoy ourselves, and leave a table for those who want one in the evening.

Xtrail14

Till receipt for food being given to some customers to cover themselves in case the ****aloine invade.

Dickie10

Am I correctin saying wet pubs were open for just 2 weeks since March 12?

Dickie10

Dickie10 wrote: »

Am I correctin saying wet pubs were open for just 2 weeks since March 12?

"Wet pubs" is a cavalier epithet that belongs in Donnybrook, Ballsbridge and Killiney. I refuse to acknowledge it. Traditional pubs lasted for a month outside Dublin, from mid-September to mid-October. Sponsored my local as best I could, knowing what was looming on the horizon.

New2Dubs

Out in Dublin city centre today for first time since August. Booked 2 gastro pubs in advance.
First bar insisted x2 meals were ordered - fair enough. Second bar, menu not offered, no mention of food, and very little to be seen throughout the entire packed bar. They did move us along after 2 hours, but witnessing the blatant lack of food served, I understand the frustration of wet bars.

Cork2021

Good article. I’d have to agree with the superiority complex he mentions

https://www.echolive.ie/corklives/John-Dolan-Keeping-pubs-shut-smacks-of-a-victory-for-snobbery-over-common-sense-48367939-f439-48dc-adfb-882d8ff07792-ds?fbclid=IwAR24aCyKEjVkgfSslHYFf1OE5s3g4bMeF0pkG5kmRwszALCw6LgbKoSmPD8

PommieBast

This bit caught my eye:

During the week, it was even speculated by a Government insider that pubs will remain closed until October, when a vaccine finally begins to produce the herd effect necessary to negate Covid.

I think this is exactly what the government is going to do. :eek:

Mean Laqueefa

y'know what does my head in ? this wet pub nonsense, a pubs a pub, yes there are boozers but its your choice



Choice is gone and wet pubs pubs is a term now pushed by media, make sure to pay the license fee lads, they give facts that suit there narrative :rolleyes:

Thats me

Cork2021 wrote: »

Good article. I’d have to agree with the superiority complex he mentions

https://www.echolive.ie/corklives/John-Dolan-Keeping-pubs-shut-smacks-of-a-victory-for-snobbery-over-common-sense-48367939-f439-48dc-adfb-882d8ff07792-ds?fbclid=IwAR24aCyKEjVkgfSslHYFf1OE5s3g4bMeF0pkG5kmRwszALCw6LgbKoSmPD8

I want to go to the pub in mid of pandemic, but i cannot afford 9 euro meal, what a snobbery!

Thats me

PommieBast wrote: »

This bit caught my eye:
I think this is exactly what the government is going to do. :eek:

This is exactly what they should to do!

IAMAMORON

PommieBast wrote: »

This bit caught my eye:
I think this is exactly what the government is going to do. :eek:

I can see them open by Paddies day.

The vaccines will roll out quicker than you think. Once the gubbermint cop on that it is a lot cheaper to inoculate a nation than pay it Covid payments? I hope someone lets them know this.

Xtrail14

They are called wet pubs because the toilets are usually all urine and punters all over each other spitting COVID everywhere. Let’s face it they were super spreader places.

Gervais08

Xtrail14 wrote: »

They are called wet pubs because the toilets are usually all urine and punters all over each other spitting COVID everywhere. Let’s face it they were super spreader places.

You are Tony Holohan, mystery arsehole and I claim my five euro!!

Seriously I have never read so much drivel in my life.

ingo1984

Don't think Tony is anti pubs, as he likes a drink himself. In his opinion, keeping the pubs closed was the best option. Regardless of whether you think that was right or not makes no difference. It was his calculated opinion of which the elected government also agreed with. Any resulting hardship caused by these decisions has been offset by wage subsidies, pup payments and business supports. People haven't lost money during the pandemic, they just haven't been able to spend it as they would like. Once we get through the pandemic and pubs reopen fully, people be throwing cash around the bar like the good auld celtic tiger days.

stephenjmcd

ingo1984 wrote: »

People haven't lost money during the pandemic, they just haven't been able to spend it as they would like.

Whatever about the rest of the post, the line above is absolute sh1te.

People haven't lost money....tell that to those out of work due to covid. Try supporting a family and everything that goes with it when your wages are cut to €350 on PUP. Utter drivel

Oh and as for the supports you listed, none of them are anywhere near what people who own a business would need to cover costs.

PommieBast

IAMAMORON wrote: »

I can see them open by Paddies day.

The vaccines will roll out quicker than you think. Once the gubbermint cop on that it is a lot cheaper to inoculate a nation than pay it Covid payments? I hope someone lets them know this.

All I can say is that I hope you are right and I am wrong..

PommieBast

ingo1984 wrote: »

Any resulting hardship caused by these decisions has been offset by wage subsidies, pup payments and business supports.

Those grants/loans of upto €5,000? They are statistical noise compared to nine months of unpaid rent and bills.

Dickie10

Christ can you just imagine the Galway Races 2021.......The last days of Sodom and Gommerah. I would think the government will use late summer and in particular the August Bank Holiday and those weeks of August as a christmas type push to support irish tourism. We should try to push for an an extra bank holiday in July as compensation for missing a whole year of holidays. Vaccine will be surely given to anyone who wants it by July. Deaths and Hospitalisations will be miniscule when all frontline, over 60s and vulnerable are vaccinated, roughly how many people is that about 1.5 million?

beggars_bush

Few pints tonight plus burger and chips in the local

Nice to get out with the better half

Thats me

beggars_bush wrote: »

Few pints tonight plus burger and chips in the local

Nice to get out with the better half

I do not expect you reporting your symptoms here a week later. This is private information, we should not expect it shared. :cool:

heffo500

I'm surprised most wet pubs have not started a limited food option to open, Would toasted sandwiches not cover the €9 substantial meal requirement?

Mongfinder General

Xtrail14 wrote: »

They are called wet pubs because the toilets are usually all urine and punters all over each other spitting COVID everywhere. Let’s face it they were super spreader places.

After what I saw at the weekend, the general public are still a pack of Cnuts who think the rules don’t apply to them. Made absolute pigs of themselves. 4 or 5 pints was all it took for certain individuals to act like arseholes.

showpony1

Mongfinder General wrote: »

After what I saw at the weekend, the general public are still a pack of Cnuts who think the rules don’t apply to them. Made absolute pigs of themselves. 4 or 5 pints was all it took for certain individuals to act like arseholes.

what behavior did you see Mongfinder?

Mongfinder General

showpony1 wrote: »

what behavior did you see Mongfinder?

Only short of getting up on each other. Hugging, hand shakes, crowding into toilets, approaching the bar when repeatedly told not to, ignoring the one way system, moving between tables. The poor staff were run ragged. I won’t be out drinking until restrictions are lifted. Not enjoyable.