Samuel Smiths are the worst pubs ever, the Chandos was across the road from the Nat West I worked in . Fucking awful pub with shit beer, we made the Welsh Harp our local, when Nigel Deamer ran it, proper good boozer, better than it is now.
How can a pub, which depends on people turning up and staying around for few hours, to make money, ban what is now an essential everyday harmless item?
Are they expecting their staff to tell Terry a 40 pint a week punter to not use his phone or get out?
Just got back from a few beers in my local. Since they opened they've had a no mobile calls rule and a £1 fine to charity for transgressions. It seems largely self regulatory and if someone's ringtone goes off in the pub there's an expectation they'll stump up. If it's on silent then you take the call outside with no problem. Works really well and no one seems to ever have a problem with it.
If you want to sit there silently Googling all night that's fine but it's noticeable that this doesn't seem to happen and I include myself in not checking Charlton Life every three minutes while chatting to whoever I'm in the pub with.
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If you want to sit there silently Googling all night that's fine but it's noticeable that this doesn't seem to happen and I include myself in not checking Charlton Life every three minutes while chatting to whoever I'm in the pub with.