Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

pjohnson · 13-09-2020 07:45AM

US2 wrote: »

Had a few pints tonight, not an enjoyable experience atall. Wasnt allowed go for a pint had to wait for the "waiter" to come to me so I spent a lot of time looking into an empty glass.
The toilet was literally 10ft away from me but there was a 1 way system in place so I had to walk the whole way around the bar to go to the toilet that's beside me.

Don't think I'll bother again even when "wet" pubs open if it's going to be like this.

I thought the important thing was to live with the virus and support local business? Was that not "the reason" for opening pubs? Seems "the reason" is being forgotten.

Happydays2020 · 13-09-2020 10:24AM

Nabber wrote: »

Ireland must be the number 1 country per capita consumer of pre made pizzas.

We are. Sure we invented them also.

Happydays2020 · 13-09-2020 10:25AM

Sawduck wrote: »

Have pubs reopened tonight, it's the busiest I have seen since lockdown began, it feels strange to hear drunk people singing again, it's been like a ghost town here for so long

Do you have any videos of the singing. RTÉ have not had any moral outrage this week.

bloopy · 13-09-2020 10:43AM

Happydays2020 wrote: »

Do you have any videos of the singing. RTÉ have not had any moral outrage this week.

Well at least they'll have someone new to blame. Gives the young a bit of a breather before they roll back around on the blame train.

Coillte_Bhoy · 13-09-2020 10:58AM

IAMAMORON wrote: »

Where are you from , The Blaskets?

I haven't seen a lunge boy/girl in over 30 years either

mountgomery burns · 13-09-2020 11:20AM

bloopy wrote: »

Well at least they'll have someone new to blame. Gives the young a bit of a breather before they roll back around on the blame train.

It will be the young people in the pubs they will blame

MrStuffins · 13-09-2020 11:21AM

US2 wrote: »

Had a few pints tonight, not an enjoyable experience atall. Wasnt allowed go for a pint had to wait for the "waiter" to come to me so I spent a lot of time looking into an empty glass.
The toilet was literally 10ft away from me but there was a 1 way system in place so I had to walk the whole way around the bar to go to the toilet that's beside me.

Don't think I'll bother again even when "wet" pubs open if it's going to be like this.

This is some first class boo-hooing if I've ever seen some!

hetuzozaho · 13-09-2020 11:41AM

US2 wrote: »

Had a few pints tonight, not an enjoyable experience atall. Wasnt allowed go for a pint had to wait for the "waiter" to come to me so I spent a lot of time looking into an empty glass.
The toilet was literally 10ft away from me but there was a 1 way system in place so I had to walk the whole way around the bar to go to the toilet that's beside me.

Don't think I'll bother again even when "wet" pubs open if it's going to be like this.

More creamy pints for the rest of us!

John O.Groats · 13-09-2020 11:50AM

US2 wrote: »

Had a few pints tonight, not an enjoyable experience atall. Wasnt allowed go for a pint had to wait for the "waiter" to come to me so I spent a lot of time looking into an empty glass.
The toilet was literally 10ft away from me but there was a 1 way system in place so I had to walk the whole way around the bar to go to the toilet that's beside me.

Don't think I'll bother again even when "wet" pubs open if it's going to be like this.

Ah sure God love you. You mean you had to wait for a few minutes for someone to come to your table and you had to walk a few extra metres to go to the toilet? Oh the outrage.:rolleyes: It`s a disgrace Joe so it is.:rolleyes:

bush · 13-09-2020 12:07PM

John O.Groats wrote: »

Ah sure God love you. You mean you had to wait for a few minutes for someone to come to your table and you had to walk a few extra metres to go to the toilet? Oh the outrage.:rolleyes: It`s a disgrace Joe so it is.:rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

bush · 13-09-2020 12:08PM

mountgomery burns wrote: »

It will be the young people in the pubs they will blame

Anyone but themselves

John O.Groats · 13-09-2020 12:08PM

bush wrote: »

:rolleyes:

;);)

_Kaiser_ · 13-09-2020 12:46PM

John O.Groats wrote: »

Ah sure God love you. You mean you had to wait for a few minutes for someone to come to your table and you had to walk a few extra metres to go to the toilet? Oh the outrage.:rolleyes: It`s a disgrace Joe so it is.:rolleyes:

The point I think being made is that if the overall experience is unpleasant and frustrating to people such as US2 it'll put them off returning. You may think it's an non-issue, but it's yet to be seen how many more just won't bother after the first visit.

Pubs will already be down trade because of social distancing requirements anyway, but if many punters just decide to stay home it'll hit them even harder.

bucketybuck · 13-09-2020 01:28PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

The point I think being made is that if the overall experience is unpleasant and frustrating to people such as US2 it'll put them off returning. You may think it's an non-issue, but it's yet to be seen how many more just won't bother after the first visit.

Pubs will already be down trade because of social distancing requirements anyway, but if many punters just decide to stay home it'll hit them even harder.

Its lose lose for the pubs really, the restrictions will keep customers away in their thousands but they will get blamed for rising cases anyway.

drunkmonkey · 13-09-2020 02:15PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

You're right. There's nothing more unpleasant and frustrating than table service and having to walk to the toilet.

Frankly I'm not sure how the poster will ever get over this unpleasantness! I, for one, will be saying a decade of the rosary for him, wishing him a full and speedy recovery from his trauma!

It's a pain in the hole sitting at a table with an empty pint trying to figure out where the young one is who forgot to bring your pint even though you ordered it 10 minutes ago.

Pubs should have demanded to open as normal if nothing more than a scientific experiment, we have bull crap rules in the places that are open, so let's see what happens when we don't have them.

xhomelezz · 13-09-2020 02:24PM

US2 wrote: »

Had a few pints tonight, not an enjoyable experience atall. Wasnt allowed go for a pint had to wait for the "waiter" to come to me so I spent a lot of time looking into an empty glass.
The toilet was literally 10ft away from me but there was a 1 way system in place so I had to walk the whole way around the bar to go to the toilet that's beside me.

Don't think I'll bother again even when "wet" pubs open if it's going to be like this.

Seriously?? How's your mental health after all that suffering.

MrStuffins · 13-09-2020 02:25PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

It's a pain in the hole sitting at a table with an empty pint.....

Then don't wait until your pint is empty to order another one.

Honestly, moaning about not having the opportunity to walk to the bar, but then moaning about having to walk to the toilet.

The problem isn't the pub or the restrictions, the problem is that moaners gonna moan.

Good that these moaners are going to stay home from the pub, more pints for me!

Unless the pub discovers a way to allow people to go to the toilet without walking there. Bed pans? Nappies? Who knows!

drunkmonkey · 13-09-2020 02:31PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

Then don't wait until your pint is empty to order another one.

Honestly, moaning about not having the opportunity to walk to the bar, but then moaning about having to walk to the toilet.

The problem isn't the pub or the restrictions, the problem is that moaners gonna moan.

Good that these moaners are going to stay home from the pub, more pints for me!

Unless the pub discovers a way to allow people to go to the toilet without walking there. Bed pans? Nappies? Who knows!

It took me nearly 20 minutes to get a pint last Sunday, ordered it when I was half way through my first one, eventually went to the bar and waited until someone gave me a friggin pint.
It's not being moany to expect a certain level of service. The rules are absolutely insane, table servers pulling at their mask before handling your pint does sweet fa for public health. (Ya I know they could sneeze in your pint and kill someones great granny)

MrStuffins · 13-09-2020 02:41PM

drunkmonkey wrote: »

It took me nearly 20 minutes to get a pint last Sunday, ordered it when I was half way through my first one.....

Do you know how many times I've been stood at a bar for 20 mins waiting to be served? Too many to count.

If you don't like the service, go to a different bar, or grow a pair of balls and stop moaning like an aul wan!

I tell ya, you'd think people would have more concern for our elderly considering how so many people love to moan like old women.

SusieBlue · 13-09-2020 03:01PM

I have to say I’ve gone to pubs/restaurants most weekends since they’ve reopened and at the start I was delighted because it was a novelty to finally be able to socialise again. Anything was better than nothing, was my line of thinking.
But as the weeks have gone by it’s becoming less enjoyable and more of an annoyance.

I went out last night in a group of 8 to celebrate a birthday, and we had to sit at two different tables that were so far apart we couldn’t speak to our friends at the other table or swap seats.
This was in a pub, by the way.
There was no music so there wasn’t much of an atmosphere. The tables were so spaced out that it felt kind of empty and there was an echo from the noise of people just talking.
I saw a woman at a table near us get up to hug her friend goodbye only for a staff member to come scooting over to tell her to sit down and stop it.
Several pairs of eyes followed me to the bathroom to make sure I didn’t stop to chat to anyone along the way.
We had to order food we didn’t want at 9:30pm at night just to be allowed in in the first place.

It just honestly wasn’t enjoyable. The novelty is gone now so if this is how it will be going forward, I probably won’t bother as much.
I would have gone out quite a lot prior to covid and there is very little similarity between a night out then and a night out now.
You can’t stop to chat to people you know, or catch up with old friends, you can’t meet anyone new, you can’t even sing along to the band because there is no band.
God help anyone who is single trying to meet someone at a time like this.
It’s just dire.

I can see momentum continuing like this until around Christmas because people will still be grateful for any bit of meagre socialisation until then but January will be a very very different story.

landofthetree · 13-09-2020 03:05PM

Basically it comes down to the ability of people to follow the rules. Can people be trusted?

Barber shops and hairdressers are high risk but a set of rules was established,business owners and customers followed them and we haven't had a problem with them spreading C19.

No doubt in my mind they can establish a safe way to open pubs but I doubt that people under the influence will follow them.

Eric Cartman · 13-09-2020 03:07PM

Ill be thoroughly glad when some of my favourite boozers are back and I dont have to suffer a crap 9 euro meal to have a pint.

Poorside · 13-09-2020 03:11PM

Eric Cartman wrote: »

Ill be thoroughly glad when some of my favourite boozers are back and I dont have to suffer a crap 9 euro meal to have a pint.

Yup, walked The Gap of Dunloe the other day, I would have murdered s pint in Kate Kearney's, totally forgot about the food requirement until I was near the end, I was crushed.

mountgomery burns · 13-09-2020 03:12PM

landofthetree wrote: »

Basically it comes down to the ability of people to follow the rules. Can people be trusted?

Barber shops and hairdressers are high risk but a set of rules was established,business owners and customers followed them and we haven't had a problem with them spreading C19.

No doubt in my mind they can establish a safe way to open pubs but I doubt that people under the influence will follow them.

Are barbershops and haridressers high risk though? They've been open in Norway since the end of April and I've heard no more about it.

Even in the Kildare/Laois/Offaly lockdown they didn't even close them.

To be honest they are good alternative example to a pub of the draconian nature of the easing of restrictions. Note I say easing, there were more severe initial lockdowns that were shorter in other countries.

Eric Cartman · 13-09-2020 04:48PM

Poorside wrote: »

Yup, walked The Gap of Dunloe the other day, I would have murdered s pint in Kate Kearney's, totally forgot about the food requirement until I was near the end, I was crushed.

Grogans and the blue light are both on the list.

PTH2009 · 13-09-2020 04:58PM

can see NPHET pulling a stunt and not allowing pub's open

PTH2009 · 13-09-2020 04:59PM

can see NPHET pulling a stunt and not allowing pub's open

stephenjmcd · 13-09-2020 05:03PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

can see NPHET pulling a stunt and not allowing pub's open

Why would they ? Its all to be based on the new living with covid plan.

Level 2 expected everywhere except possibly Dublin but no decision on that yet. In level 2 they can open.

NPHET also approved the opening as the establishments already open aren't contributing to spread, the theory also is open them up and you get less household congregation in uncontrolled environments

Tenzor07 · 13-09-2020 05:26PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

can see NPHET pulling a stunt and not allowing pub's open

Yup, if I was to place a bet on the pubs opening on the 21st in Dublin, i'd bet against it... 225 positive tests today.. no chance of the pubs opening!

0gac3yjefb5sv7 · 13-09-2020 05:31PM

When are they going to publish the 9 month plan?

Opening of "No-Food" pubs pushed out again

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