Worlds fastest barman
About three months ago myself and two friends were having a few drinks in a pub near our place of work, I wont mention the name of the pub because apart from this instance the staff had always been good.

Its my round, I go to the bar and ask for a pint of Guinness and two largers, barman starts on the guinness then grabs a couple of glasses half filled with some beer and starts topping them up. I ask if I can have fresh pints and am told by the barman that these are fresh "only pulled them a minute ago" I respond by again politely asking for fresh drinks, I didn't mention that the "just pulled" beer was clearly old.

The barman starts slamming stuff around behind the bar and muttering while pouring two of the frothiest pints I have ever seen, really was half liquid half head. He slams all three drinks down in front of me and goes to the till, he drops my change in front of me shouts "your welcome" and stomps off.

I wait at the bar not saying anything, barman seems to have a problem with this so he comes over and asks me what I want. My response was to say that I would like the drinks topped up as the head had died down and they were half empty.

Barman goes into a low level rage and turns a strange shade of purple, he then proceeds to pour all three pints down the sink and start on fresh ones. We left after those drinks and have not been back since.

As a result of this we didn't want to go back to the same pub so tried one further down the road, its quite good, and now all the people from work walk by the old place and spend their money in the new venue.

Cost to me of complaining - about two minutes extra walk. cost to the pub of barman being a twat - about twenty lunches and fifty pints a week (thats not just me drinking all the booze btw).
(cname, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 13:57, 1 reply)

It's a shame to boycott the place if it was a one-off
I'd be inclined to mention it to the gov'nor & give him a chance to sort it. There could be a free round in it too!
( Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Wed 8 Sep 2010, 14:42, closed)