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Parents with children in Wetherspoons only allowed two drinks
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk/7170939.stm
Adults with children are only allowed two alcoholic drinks at JD Wetherspoon pubs in order to limit their stay.
A spokesman for the company said it was "uncomfortable" with children being on the premises for long periods because of a lack of play facilities.
What do you think?
I can't say I've ever noticed lots of kids in Wetherspoons, but I usually only go in the evenings. I can't see why anyone would want to take their kids there unless they were having a meal, in which case, two drinks seems plenty.
Adults with children are only allowed two alcoholic drinks at JD Wetherspoon pubs in order to limit their stay.
A spokesman for the company said it was "uncomfortable" with children being on the premises for long periods because of a lack of play facilities.
What do you think?
I can't say I've ever noticed lots of kids in Wetherspoons, but I usually only go in the evenings. I can't see why anyone would want to take their kids there unless they were having a meal, in which case, two drinks seems plenty.
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If your children are behaving themselves and you are told you cannot have a third drink it's rather insulting and patronising.
I suspect it's to do with profits and little else.
wetherspoons is generally a mix of giro jonnys, young people and generally people looking for cheap drinks, therefore not really the sort of family eating establishment.
to be honest, if it wasnt so cheap i wouldnt set foot in one ever again, they depress the hell out of me, they smell, no music, and generally rough horrible people.
but thats just my thoughts.
Pubs are not a charity but an adult business where people of age can get away, have a drink and not neccessarily be pestered by kids running around. That's what Mac D's are for.
Anyway, if I can't jump on their bouncy castles or plunge into their coloured ball pits, why should they come into my pub???
But if you do allow children in your pub then restricting their parents/guardians to two drinks seems infantile and unfair.
How are they going to enforce this anyway? Does a bottle of wine count as one drink or more? Because if a couple orders a couple of bottles of wine they could make it last quite a while...
maybe its the least offensive or least likely way of causing problems to say "we dont want kids in our pubs anymore"?
It doesn't bother or affect me too much to be honest. I don't have kids and I would only consider patronising a Wetherspoons pub if it was the only one in a 100-mile radius. Rank beer and shit atmosphere.
Why anyone would want to linger in Wetherspoons longer than necessary is beyond me anyway, I imagine the overwhelming majority of people who do take their kids in are happy to leave once they're fed and watered. I wouldn't take my children in there, but then I would even take myself in there unless I was out of options.
As has been said, how is it enforcable anyway? If you go in with kids will you have to have your hand stamped drink by drink? Weird.
This isn't fair on the kids - OK now it's not smoky for them but still!
On christmas eve I saw a family with a baby (tiny tiny baby - weeks old) in a pub with their 3 other children from about 4yrs to 10 yrs. They left after us and we left at 10.30pm. Why keep your kids in a pub on xmas eve until 11pm or later even.
Kids shouldn't be allowed in pubs unless they are family pubs e.g. brewsters with the play area. There is no need for them to be there. Parents have the kids, they can take them to more suitable places for the child or leave them at home with a babysitter.
In my opinion, pubs are no places for children and weatherspoons have made a good move with their new unenforcable rule!
Its not fair on the children, a day out for the kids isn't going to the pub, because after 5 minutes they are bored.
Although I think a two drinks limit is a good idea, its going to be hard to enforce. Most parents would only take they kids in a pub for a few drinks anyway, this is about trying to prevent the parents who think they can bring their kids to the pub whilst they stay all day drinking.
Good idea Witherspoon's, only not sure how enforcible it will be. :thumb:
I'm not all that comfortable with the undertone that taking your kids to Wetherspoons for their tea equates to bad parenting. It's not ideal but maybe there's little/no choice when you're in town for the day. The kids probably love it, anyway. It also depends hugely on the age of the kids, of course.
Taking your kids to Wetherspoon's doesn't make you a bad parent.
But there is a clear divide between those who are going into the pub for a meal and a few drinks with the kids- which i think is fine. And those who take the kids along 'for a day out' and spend hours upon hours in the pub getting drunk. They have no interest in having a meal, but just getting drunk somewhere they can take the kids. That isn't fair on the kids or other customers.
i think its down to the premises, the wacky warehouse and brewsters here serve food till closing at 11pm and therefore allow children in till then.
i certainly dont think taking kids to a pub for some food is bad parenting, i just think there are places which are more suitable such as the above, i was taken to pubs to eat as a child, but certainly not a full day out there.
Maybe its just the experience of wetherspoons that i've had and thats what's tainting it for me, they are filthy holes and would never take any child of mine to one.
i've regularly been to the brewster places with my nieces however who only wee babes and they love the ball pits and that, certainly better than playing with Crazy Jacks walking stick under the table in a spoons.
So do the adults....
as said previously it frees up space and time for serving to people who spend more money, for eg. if me and my friends were sat there we'd have a pint or a drink every 15mins or so, compared to maybe a orange squash for 20p for a child which will last hours
I guess he meant something along the lines of there being 2 adults drinking pints with 5 kids drinking cheap crap pop taking up a table, getting rowdy and kids running wild. They won't be making all that much from them as customers, but may be putting other people off coming in for the sake of the noisy kids.
Or mabye he didn't mean that!
Why on earth not? Socialising with friends and showing how to do it responsibly?
Don't take my kid much but if I want too I do, he loves coming out with the boys, took him the first time when he was 5 days old lol
When you take your son to the pub you may be being responsible, but many don't.
I often go to the pub and just drink pop, or make it last ages. Maybe they should throw me out.
If there is suitable entertainment, then fair enough. But for your kid to sit there and watch you socialising with your friends with nothing to do himself, it can't be that much fun. Noone is saying you are a bad parent because you do it, though.
yeah if its a suitable place for kids thats cool, but taking them to the boozer while you hang out with your mates is not good, and if it was a regular thing i'd say its on its way to bad parenting.
ETA: but then again i dont have kids so cant really have a opinion on it
theres time for you yet
I do wonder about the point on possible complaints from customers. I suspect that's at least part of the reason Wetherspoons are doing this. Though given my experience the last time I was at one of their pubs, you'd need at least two pints to get rid of the awful taste of the food I was served.
:rolleyes:
Its blatantly obvious the reasons why they have brought this in. As said before, they prefer the place to be rammed with people who'll spend the day in there, drinking. IE four blokes/women with no kids who can sit and drink all day. Not one bloke/woman with kids who takes up a whole table and is buying a fraction of the alcohol four adults would.
Cleverly hidden behind a 'we're thinking of the kids message'!. But probably rightly so, Wetherspoons' are usually dives often full of dickheads IME. Last person i'd take there is a kid.