Recently my husband & myself visited the newly re-furbished Halfway House, Blackpool where we ordered food & several bottles of champagne during our evening. Everything was going well with friends & neighbour's we hadn't seen in a long time, when, unfortunately, my husband discovered that whilst we were eating our meal, customer's with 2 dogs, who had recently left, had also left a huge amount of dog vomit on the floor right next to where my husband was sitting!!! We both asked members of staff (several times) to please come & clean this most vile mess up but no-one was willing to do so, but worst of all, we approached the Manager, Paul, we believe to be his name & he refused point blank to do anything about it!!! Due to this happening we could no longer continue with our meal as the vomit was beside us for at least 10 minutes which is totally unacceptable!!! Eventually after my husband & myself persistently asked staff for help, the Manager came over to our table with "Blue Roll" & handed this to our neighbour's & I quote, said, " It's the dog owner's responsibility for there dog, he should clean it up!" We were again disgusted as even though our neighbour's had a dog with them it was not there dog who had done this disgusting accident but because our neighbour was put on the spot, he was willing to clean the mess up!!! We stopped him from doing this & told the Manager he was wrong to ask this man to do this & he therefore should bring the correct cleaning equipment out to do the job properly!!! Very reluctantly, he did but only with a brush & pan & he didn't mop/bleach the floor afterwards!!! On the night we were offered no apologies or anyway of compensation after such a horrible disruption to what started as a lovely meal. The Manager, Paul disappeared instantly after he kind of cleaned the mess-up!!! We never saw him for the rest of the evening!!! However, after contacting the Joseph Holt Brewery directly, we have since received a generous amount of vouchers from themselves which we are very grateful for. We live nearby & were so pleased to see the turn around of this bar/restaurant but after what we experienced the other night, the thought of going back really turns our stomachs!!! We are thoroughly disappointed with the overall attitude of the Manager, Paul....he has absolutely NO CUSTOMER SERVICE skills whatsoever!!! We can only hope that the Joseph Holt company have taken the appropriate action against this Manager to ensure he is up to speed with his Customer Service Skills!!!