Pub crackdown launched as younger Brits ‘do not know how you can order a pint’ – and concept why

A new campaign has been released to try and get Generation Z educated on pub etiquette.

Gen Z, born between 1997 and 2021, are said to have picked up bad habits due to many of them turning legal drinking age during the Pandemic. The group Pub Queues is trying to stop the new trend of lining up for a pint.

Social media pictures have revealed lines of drinkers snaking back towards the back of pubs, leaving the whole bar empty. This was originally made for social distancing, but some say Gen Z have not stopped since.

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The campaign say they want to “end the recent phenomenon of queuing single file in pubs.” They think bars should be used how they were intended – to spread across.

“We queue for the bus, or for the checkout, not at bars.” It urges establishments that put up signs to discourage drinkers from forming single-file lines. One read “Please stop queuing in a line. Come to the bar”, while another sign states “If there is a single file queue in front of you, walk straight past it and go to the bar”.

“This is not a Post Office, there is no need to queue like one,” another reads. The owner of Devonshire Pub in London, which is considered the city’s busiest, Oisin Rogers, says it’s the younger generation who are the main culprits.

“When people became 18 years old and they were under lockdown restrictions, they wouldn’t have been in a proper drinking environment before and wouldn’t have had that culture. I think it’s a lot of Gen Z who are doing it because of the hangover from Covid with the two-metre rule,” he told the Telegraph.

“I’ve been running pubs for 35 years and can’t remember that ever happening before. This new thing is completely foreign, unnecessary and bizarre.” Asked what he would do if people queued in a straight line at his establishment, Oisin said he would “come out from behind the bar immediately and tell people to come forward”.

Previously, the Daily Star gave their own opinions on the pub queuing debacle. “Pushing, shoving, clamouring, crowding – whatever you call it, it’s a long and honourable tradition in British pub culture,” explained Content Editor Lizzie McAllister. “We Brits love a good queue and have perfected the art, but it has a time and place, and the bar just isn’t it. If you’re not willing to fight for your pint, what will you fight for?”

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