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After - I’m not exerting elbow-energy pouring an Amstel only for your bloody card to get declined | 2 | 20.00% | ||||
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Before - giving customers the benefit of the doubt is just a default practice. I’m not paranoid | 8 | 80.00% | ||||
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Depends how you look/seem. I’d be wary of not setting up a pre.-tab for chavvy-looking folk | 0 | 0% | ||||
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24-10-2022, 10:40 PM | #1 | |||
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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’?
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24-10-2022, 10:45 PM | #2 | |||
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Redway with the questions we all sit here wondering the answers to!
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24-10-2022, 11:15 PM | #3 | |||
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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
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25-10-2022, 12:31 AM | #4 | |||
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Jessica Meuse was robbed.
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They're paying before I pour the drink out.
I'm here to run a business after all. In fairness it would probably depend on how suspicious I would be of the person if they were out to scam the business.
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25-10-2022, 12:44 AM | #5 | |||
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Has your card ever been declined while trying to pay for a pint/bottle, Mock?
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25-10-2022, 12:48 AM | #6 | |||
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Jessica Meuse was robbed.
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But when I've been to the Pub I've been extremely lucky and not had my card declined.
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25-10-2022, 01:00 AM | #7 | |||
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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.
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25-10-2022, 01:10 AM | #8 | |||
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Jessica Meuse was robbed.
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And I can see that the business trusts you which is a good thing.
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25-10-2022, 01:23 AM | #9 | |||
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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.
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25-10-2022, 03:06 AM | #10 | |||
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Jessica Meuse was robbed.
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Local businesses in particular I'm always in favour of supporting.
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25-10-2022, 03:09 AM | #11 | |||
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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. 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. Last edited by LaLaLand; 25-10-2022 at 03:10 AM. |
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25-10-2022, 07:36 AM | #12 | |||
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pay later, you can always pass the poured pint to a regular and make their day
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25-10-2022, 07:56 AM | #13 | ||
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If they couldn’t pay,
I would turn into Peggy Mitchell Get out my pub you slag. |
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25-10-2022, 02:16 PM | #14 | |||
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16-01-2023, 01:25 AM | #15 | |||
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You certainly can.
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16-01-2023, 07:48 AM | #16 | |||
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I thought it was only fast food / chippies that asked you to pay for stuff in advance Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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16-01-2023, 09:48 AM | #17 | |||
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This Witch doesn't burn
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. Without the working in a pub bit
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16-01-2023, 10:14 AM | #18 | |||
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That sounds nightmarish..
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16-01-2023, 07:23 PM | #19 | |||
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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?
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16-01-2023, 07:40 PM | #20 | |||
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You know my methods
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STUPID THREAD
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16-01-2023, 10:57 PM | #21 | |||
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