Do Pubs not like it if you drink on your own ?

kalych

zenno wrote: »

Thanks for bringing me back down to earth

I just get thick sometimes with some publicans. It happened to me twice before many years back and it feels degrading being told to leave, or when you finish your pint being told... I think it would be better if you didn't come back here in future... for absolutely doing nothing but having a pint and reading the paper, you are spending your money there but they don't seem to want it.

I know a lot of people on their own get this in some pubs, a couple of friends told me about their encounters with these arse-hole publicans. I wouldn't give any of them the steam of my p$*%. Greedy publicans is all they mostly are from what i have seen over the years.

I haven't met an owner working in his own pub in years, so kinda doubt the "greedy publicans" line, actually does anyone know of any privately owned and run place in Dublin city centre these days? Just bad management, like with any business, hurt them where it counts, the tills.

wannabecraig

kalych wrote: »

actually does anyone know of any privately owned and run place in Dublin city centre these days?

Ryan's in Queen's street for a start.

anncoates

My friends family own and ( he) rmanages a well known pub in Dublin City Centre so they definitely exist.

It's very much a student, alternative place though.

Lux23

kalych wrote: »

I haven't met an owner working in his own pub in years, so kinda doubt the "greedy publicans" line, actually does anyone know of any privately owned and run place in Dublin city centre these days? Just bad management, like with any business, hurt them where it counts, the tills.

Not quite city centre but my boyfriend does.

Sofiztikated

kalych wrote: »

I haven't met an owner working in his own pub in years, so kinda doubt the "greedy publicans" line, actually does anyone know of any privately owned and run place in Dublin city centre these days? Just bad management, like with any business, hurt them where it counts, the tills.

You say it's bad management, I'd be more inclined to say that it's a management decision that you don't agree with.

By the OPs admission, yer man is a bit of an alco, and says he wanted a quiet pint. But in a bar like Dandelion, that gets the after work cocktails, and "Ya, ya, I know, riysh" crowd, a solitary drinker might be enough to put people on edge.

It's not just that one person that the bar man has to accommodate, it's also the 000's others, and the reputation of the establishment. One solitary, bit of an alco, drinker can quickly turn into a bunch, driving out the hard won over, disposable income crowd, that happily spend over the odds on ****e drinks, just to be seen in a place.

Plus there's a ****ton of other bars I'd drink in, before Dandelion.