Being asked to leave for not buying drink

Don't really see what's unreasonable about it :confused:
ok you're not taking custom away if there are seats free but that's hardly the point, it's different if you're in a group and most people have drinks, but for neither of you to be buying drinks is a bit off. I can't say it's something I've ever thrown someone out for, but then again I've never had anyone sit without a drink for 3 hours.
 
NickK said:
Agreed if it was not busy, it's actually worse for business because the place looks empty - far better to have someone nursing a pint reading the paper than a ghost town..
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1) it was busy in the pub, they were in a quiet bit, presumably quiet because other people were busy doing the quiz.
2) they weren't nursing drinks, unless it's drinking up time you're unlikely ever to get moved on while you've got a drink left, but to go a period of hours without any drinks is just a bit weird tbh
 
How can it take you 3 hrs to drink a pint? Surely it would be like luke warm soup by then and flat as a very flat thing?

KaHn
 
Freefaller said:
Depends... if it was busy and they wanted to free up some space then I can understand... if it wasn't that busy with plenty of spare seats then I'd say it's somewhat uncalled for.
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this, it's bad business practice, especially if Jonny is a 'semi' regular, look at it this way, if Jonny goes in once a fortnight and he and his partner both have 3 drinks at say £3 each, that's £18, over a year, that's £468, say they eat once a month, there's another £240 over the year, so now that's £708 of business lost in a year.

Everyone in business knows, you're best advertising is word of mouth, and bad publicity spreads a lot more easily than good publicity, so Jonny has told his mates about this bad experience, they may or may not choose to go in there in future, especially if Jonnys mates attend the venue with him normally in the first place.

Now, what harm was Jonny and his partner doing sitting in a quiet corner with ample space for other customers, so what if he wasn't drinking, he normally does, and in this day in age, i don't suppose any business can afford to be throwing money away like that, £708 may not sound a lot to a business, but, believe me, it is, especially for a dying trade.
 
I didn't nurse it for 3 hours it was long gone but I didn't fancy drinking when we had something to work out. I've walked out there many times after quite a few drinks.

If he had said it in a nicer way and suggested go buy a drink to say I would have. But act like a **** and walk away before someone,who he probably didnt expect to get **** from, has a chance to defend themselfs is crap.

Last time I took mates there it was me + 6 others or so before a night out. All drinking that night. A one of occasion where I dont fancy drinking too much and something else came up and I'm getting told to drink or FO.
 
You could have just bought two cokes and just got on with it? Whilst I think the guy was being somewhat pedantic and a tad 'into his job', the very fact you (and partner) spent 3 hours in a boozer without buying a drink is crazy in my mind. Regardless of whether you feel like buying a drink or not, the pub is a business and one which pays 'rent'.
 
If its busy and you're there taking up a seat nursing your one pint after 3 hours, I can see why they'd boot you out. Could have a better paying customer in your space.
 
Obviously not that good a pub, sounds quite impersonal.
A good drinking hole is personal i find, you actually know most of the barstaff and most of the regulars.

One of my regular places I drink at, quite happy for me to sit in there all day free drinking tap if I haven't any money to drink.
 
I am not being funny but were you fighting/arguing ?

I worked In the pub trade for years and a couple having a heated or even simply an unpleasent conversation in a quiet bar is not good for business espicially if they only bought 2 drinks in 3 hours.
 
I once got chased around a club in bangkok for half an hour with them telling me to buy a drink or go in the end i got a water.
 
Abraham said:
1) it was busy in the pub, they were in a quiet bit, presumably quiet because other people were busy doing the quiz.
2) they weren't nursing drinks, unless it's drinking up time you're unlikely ever to get moved on while you've got a drink left, but to go a period of hours without any drinks is just a bit weird tbh
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Is it? In France and other places in the Med, I'll go and buy a coffee or a cake or something at a cafe and maybe the newspaper and sit for hours watching the world go by and never ever have I been moved on in spite of only buying 1 or 2 drinks.

I think it is unreasonable if the pub isn't busy and the space wasn't required. Who knows they may have bought more drinks a little later? Kicking out your customers just because they're not gorging themselves seems stupid.
 
Freefaller said:
Is it? In France and other places in the Med, I'll go and buy a coffee or a cake or something at a cafe and maybe the newspaper and sit for hours watching the world go by and never ever have I been moved on in spite of only buying 1 or 2 drinks.

I think it is unreasonable if the pub isn't busy and the space wasn't required. Who knows they may have bought more drinks a little later? Kicking out your customers just because they're not gorging themselves seems stupid.
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They're probably petrified that you'll tackle them into the side of an oncoming van! :p
 
It has happened to me twice before.

Once I was out with a few friends and we were going around some village pubs. I was driving and had had my fill of drinks in the pubs before and just didn't want a drink.

My friends had bought drinks in this particular pub and they were putting money in one of those games machines. The bar woman came over to me and basically said, buy a drink or get out. Now I'm not going to drink for the sake of it, and nor am I going to wait outside on my own while my friends have a good time. Stupid bint. I ignored her and that was that.

Second occasion was similar but I just didn't have any cash on me at the time.
 
I'd not go back to a pub that took such an attitude. Yeah, they're within their rights but it's the kind of tight penny-pinching attitude that drives people away.

I've never been thrown out of a pub for not buying enough drinks; although a pub I used to go to did complain about "us". Me, and several of my friends, would slosh out way through 4 or 5 each but we had a few others with us who'd nurse a single coke all night. Apparently they complained to one of my (drinking) friends about us. Which I thought was a bit rich, frankly, although they never asked us to leave or gave us any aggro over it.
 
Tactless fool by the sound of it :confused:

Could have just asked you if you wanted a drink bringing over or something. A gentle/friendly hint.

I know that I wouldn't feel like going back there after being treated like that :(
 
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