Triage For Pubs in the Age of Under-staffing

ArtSmart

So for those who just want 2 drinks or less - a separate part of the bar to order from.

Logic. Those who buy 3 drinks or more, are likely going to the bar only 1 in 3 times (assumptions etc), so they expect to wait/ or are more willing to wait.

Assumptions - Many: 1/ Bars will be under staffed for quite a while, maybe the next 10 years. 2/Experienced bar people are getting rarer and rarer. 3/ I have no friends, so it would suit me. 4/ etc etc

This may go off thread re staffing issues and wages etc, but hopefully the main idea - me people getting a drink without waiting 10 minutes for it - will be discussed.

Thoughts?

T-Maxx

So an express checkout in other words?

If you're waiting 10 minutes in the queue you're either doing it wrong or going to the wrong pub.

Mrs OBumble

News for ya OP. Pubs have express checkout already. It's just ... obscured. Mr OB or I can walk in to our local, catch the bar persons eye and order immediately.

Potential-Monke

I'll never understand why expected busy bars aren't designed to funnel people from one end of the bar to the other, and in/out system if you will. No one skipping queues, etc. They can do it with the coats but not the drink... Used to hate it, from both sides of the bar. I did enjoy that bar in Waterford where you sign up to some App, give them money and it gives you credit to go pull your own pints/get your own shots. All digital, you can change what you're drinking at any point, just collect from a different tap after... eh, tapping. Good idea overall. Not sure if it's still going...

If everyone just queued like normal people, there'd be no issue, but the human greed and selfishness is alive and evidenent at bar counters.

con747

If you're only having 2 drinks stay at home, you're clogging up the bar for the rest of us.

Strumms

If you don’t get service, don’t return your custom.

the Irish way..

week 1-3…. 2 drink max order respected

week 4 - whatever….. people getting 3/4 drinks.. “ awhhh come on Mick that fella yapping there, nice one “…

Ultimately back to being a free for all…

Del2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010295#Comment_121010295

They have that system in Dublin Airport. It looks terrible as there's an empty bar with a queue of people across the seating area and doesn't seem anymore efficient than everyone standing at the bar, people still skip the queue.

The solution to all the problems is to pay more so you don't have staffing issues.

Ubbquittious

A lot of the pub owners have gone to uppish to bother staffing the bar themselves. Instead just want to lay down on the beach in Lanzarote for most of the year because they see themselves as part of the "owner class" now

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058310246/triage-for-pubs-in-the-age-of-under-staffing

Or pubs could use common sense. Reduce the price of a pint and when this makes pubs popular again they can afford to pay staff properly

taxAHcruel

Ah a wonderful plan yet again ruined by the never ending failed idea of "Ah shure - lets just go for one shall we?"

ArtSmart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010299#Comment_121010299

😁Well, I only ORDER 1-2 drinks, but how FREQUENT I do so, is a matter between me and my priest (aka my drinking buddy)

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121010295#Comment_121010295

"I did enjoy that bar in Waterford where you sign up to some App, give them money and it gives you credit to go pull your own pints/get your own shots. All digital, you can change what you're drinking at any point, just collect from a different tap after... eh, tapping."

Wow. Sounds....I dunno...like a lawsuit waiting to happen! (After the sixth/tenth self pour goes very wrong) But I like it.

But, maybe ordering via app from your table, and the drinks are brought down...now THAT I likes, a lot.

ArtSmart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121026027#Comment_121026027

Well, while I'm not disagreeing with the above statement, that's an entirely different thread...

ArtSmart

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121008990#Comment_121008990

The mid-week local, nae bother. But If I'm glad-ragging it in da big ****....

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121009076#Comment_121009076

Again, Da local be a different story - entirely.

Bicyclette

Put the mixers and soft drinks in a vending machine that takes cash and credit card. You want a rum and coke? Get the coke from the vending machine while the rum is being served. You just want a bottle of orange? No skill required - get it from the vending machine.