Wetherspoons bans punters from queing at bar and promote free-for-all fashion

Wetherspoons is leading the fight against the trend of queuing single file in pubs for booze – ordering customers to `spread out at the bar to be served’.

Official signs have appeared in many branches of the popular chain nationwide barring drinkers from forming an orderly line for beer. Instead bosses want punters to spread out in traditional style to encourage bar room banter.

Customers have been posting photos of signs they have spotted in their local ‘Spoons on X. It reads: “Please do NOT queue. Spread out at the bar to be served. Thank you.’’

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One punter wrote: “Was in the Spoons in Southport on Friday and the barman had to ask punters not to queue because it blocks the route to the gents (which is remarkably close to the same universe as the bar).’’

Another said: “Stand at the bar…it’s not a Post Office.’’

One commented on a photo of a single file pub queue: “These people need to be barred, immediately.’’

“I’d have to walk straight up to the bar if I saw this,’’ said another.

One more raged: “How are people so f****** stupid! 100% these are the people that drive in the middle and outside lanes.’’

Another ranted: “That’s millennial behaviour…I’d be straight to the bar giving no f**** whatsoever…if you don’t know how to go to the pub stay at home…d***heads.’’

The single file ban has been backed by the @QueuesPub X account set up to wipe out the habit.

Boasting 11,300 followers it said it was a ‘campaign to end the recent phenomenon of queuing single file in pubs.’

“We queue for the bus or for the checkout – not at bars.’”

A spokesman for JD Wetherspoon said the company had not issued a formal edict banning queuing across its 850 pubs across the UK and Ireland and it was a decision for individual managers.

“Some pubs have a sign which asks customers to spread out at the bar,’’ he added.

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