Contact Details Requested In Pubs.

[SparklyKid]

Just looked at a pub we used to go to before moving here. They are demanding name,contact details and times of entering and leaving. I say it is ridiculous, why are supermarkets not doing the same.

I would not go in any pub where I was quizzed.

[Hopkirk]

They are required to

[Bobbisox1]

It’s for track and trace Sparkly , it’s the ‘asking’ to use the toilet I’m not happy about, I doubt I’ll be frequenting a pub anytime soon

[SparklyKid]

Hi Bobbs and all. Pubs I fear may never be the same again. We hardly ever go unless members of family visit, which is rarely. Cannot remember the last time we went in a pub.

[bhg481]

I wonder how many pubs "Mickey Mouse" visited yesterday (unless they asked for ID).

[Old_Geezer]

One reason it's not yet time to go back. While they are required to take details, my insistence that I'm not monitored by Big Brother any more than I can avoid, requires me to stay away.

[Bobbisox1]

Last time for me was March 17th, I remember it well, I was with two friends for our usual Tuesday night out in the Crown, the following Friday 21st ,same friends and me drove to rural Northumberland and stayed in a log cabin till the 23rd, the bar in the clubhouse was for take outs only , very few people about just residents walking their dogs, came home on Monday 23rd to total lockdown

[Ken4155]

3Ts visited a pub yesterday but said he wasn't asked for contact details, etc. Obviously, there are those pubs adhering strictly to the guidelines and those going through the motions.

[SparklyKid]

Sorry times indeed .

[aelmpvw]

are busy pubs going to be employing someone full time to take down all the details?

[alavahalf]

Prior to Covid our local couldn't serve you a drink without having lipstick on the glass .. so god only knows how they will manage the extra cleanliness required.
We are in no rush to return.
Will stick to a beer in my own garden .. without the lipstick !

[SparklyKid]

I appreciate that the rules/guidelines are necessary but I shall not be pubbing any time soon, if ever again.

Local off licence is always quiet, lol.

[Gromit]

It is a condition of halving social distancing from 2 metres to 1 metre. You do not have to go.

[Gromit]

If someone dies of Covid next week, and tracing reveals they were next to you in the pub all afternoon, wouldn’t you like to know? Wouldn’t you be concerned that you were possibly infecting people you love ?

[naomi24]

I'm not convinced that the regulations will have any real benefit. Such a shame they can't trade normally but I won't be going until they do. I find it all very depressing and there's no pleasure in that.

[woofgang]

If you don't want to give your details then don't go. The difference between pubs and supermarkets is the length of time you will be close to people and the fact that you won't have to be masked, also even with extra careful cleaning, you will be handling/touching things that other people have handled/touched.

[Peter Pedant]

I am amazed they just dont say - swipe your card
has info which is kinda - - real

[Peter Pedant]

// Such a shame they can't trade normally but I won't be going until they do.//

make sure you drink and eat outside - terrible weather up here -
the expt has been done - - - wot expt dat den
Durdle Dor and Bournemouth - no cases so outside concourse HAS to be safe ....
and have a good time - we all need it

[teacake44]

The bottom line is that even more pubs will close in the coming weeks regardless of how they try, pubs have been doomed for the last 5 years if not more so. During the lockdown many have realised how much they have saved by drinking at home, the excitement of going to a pub must be nil, no entertainment, no showing of sport, if that's your thing, live bands, again if that's your thing, are all a thing of the past, add to all that, employment figures increasing by the day, so the latter in itself is going to see drinking at home to rise even more so. The pubs don't really stand a chance.
The last time I entered a pub was last summer, and that was the first time in about 3 years, only because I had forgotten to take my bottled drink with me on my normal walk, I was charged £1.80 for just a small bottle of tonic water? you can by a Lt bottle at the supermarket near me for 70p, now I know they have overheads, but I dread to think how much it would have been with a gin in it. I'm afraid they are doomed, unless government reduce the tax, then the winter months will see the end of most pubs, if not before, I hope I'm wrong, but I can't see any future for them.

[aelmpvw]

sticky note on forehead with contact details, job done

[Gromit]

// employment figures increasing by the day //

Good thing surely?

Good pubs will survive, but bad pubs will close. There are a lot of bad pubs and they will go.
I cannot see social drinking stopping anytime soon. Die hards will put up with the intrusive social distancing regulations. Others will wait until Those have gone.