If you worked in a pub….
 

And you served pints (using a quintessential example) and had it your way, would you pour the pint before or after the customer’s actually paid? What makes the most natural sense to you between those two ‘options’?

Redway with the questions we all sit here wondering the answers to!

Don't think I've ever been in a pub that asked you to pay before they poured your drinks, I also worked in pubs when I was younger and always poured first, no one ever didn't pay

They're paying before I pour the drink out.

I'm here to run a business after all.:joker:

In fairness it would probably depend on how suspicious I would be of the person if they were out to scam the business.

Has your card ever been declined while trying to pay for a pint/bottle, Mock?

I mainly get my Alcohol from a local Off-Licence, and I've always had my ID with me thankfully.:laugh:

But when I've been to the Pub I've been extremely lucky and not had my card declined.

Ah, gotcha. I’m okay doing most things alone (at my most outgoing I’m a reserved ambivert so in other words I very-much enjoy my own company) so I don’t mind getting a few tinnies/bottles (not so much at the moment with these crazy inflation costs) and drinking in my own space but going to the pub. and just watching the world/people go by is something I’ve always enjoyed to be fair. If you’re the reserved observant type you can probably sit at one table for three hours drinking a few glasses of wine or pint-or-two of Heineken and just taking in the atmosphere/vibes. But I get why you’re the sort of guy who might prefer buying from the offie (which isn’t a bad thing at all).

My card’s definitely been declined in the past but I’m a reliable semi-regular face so it’s never been too much of an embarrassment for me on the occasions it’s happened.

Oh I can definitely see the appeal of a Pub environment.

And I can see that the business trusts you which is a good thing.

Yeah, trust isn’t something I like to break easily. Even if it was a case of me being so broke (which it’s not), or at least allegedly so, and the staff so generous that they drew-up a credit tab for me I definitely wouldn’t run away from that pub. without eventually paying my way, down to the penny. Running a business is tough and these places need all the financial help they can get to even stay open at all. I’m not someone who takes the piss when it comes to money.

I can agree with you on that.

Local businesses in particular I'm always in favour of supporting.

I worked in a pub and it's always been pour first - money after.

Though, on some occasions some of the older punters would come in and just give us like X amount "for their drinks for the evening" and I'd have to tally up and give change (if any) at the end of the night or ask for any extra owed. Like a reverse tab if you will - drove me mad. :joker:

People paying with card too was a pain when it was minimum of £5 spend (a pint then was about £2.30ish), you'd have people paying for 2/3/4 drinks in advance via the card machine just because they had no cash and I'd have to mentally keep note of how many they'd had or keep a little tally on a notepad behind the bar. :joker:

pay later, you can always pass the poured pint to a regular and make their day

If they couldn’t pay,
I would turn into Peggy Mitchell

Get out my pub you slag.

Sod the regular, it would be straight down my gullet.

You certainly can.

I thought it was only fast food / chippies that asked you to pay for stuff in advance


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. Without the working in a pub bit

That sounds nightmarish..

I’m not necessarily saying otherwise, which is why I presented my OP in a hypothetical light. In other words are you happy to stick with present custom or are you so much of a money-stickler/Peggy Mitchell that you’d rather people paid up-front if it was down to you?

STUPID THREAD

Thanks for the insight.

I definitely believe in supporting local pubs. I’m with you on that.