The George Inn — Restaurant in England

We stayed in a local holiday cottage over October half term while on holiday with my wife, children and in-laws.

I visited this pub on Saturday tea time with my father in law for a couple of beers each. The manager politely told as that as he had tables booked up from 7.00pm onwards, we would have to vacate the tables by that time. We had our beers and left well before 7.00pm. Plenty of time to clean the table. While sitting we did not see any people turn up to use the tables at the rear of the pub, it was empty.

The following day on the Sunday we returned at 5.30pm for our 2 beers each. This time we were told by the manager that we would have to sit outside in the garden as the table were shortly in use.

We sat in a cold garden in the wind and rain. No umbrellas or shelter was provided and non of the patio heaters were on.

We spoke too, two disgruntled local lads who basically were not very polite about the establishment.

After 1 hour in the cold wind and rain we left. During this period we saw only 1 family actually turn up to use the tables at the rear of the pub. So in actual fact we could have quite easily sat down and drunk a beer with still time for them to wipe down the tables after.

On leaving the pub garden another party of 5 adults turned up and asked us if they were allowed to drink inside. We explained what happened and they swiftly left and said they would go to another pub they new that welcomed drinkers.

We never returned to the pub after that as we decided that the pub obviously did not want our money. Despite the fact that we planning on taking the family out for dinner there in the week.

We decided to go to alternative places instead.

I totally understand that pubs need to maximise profits and that people eating need to take priority. We would have been quite happy to sit in the garden every night for a beer providing that we had some type of warm or shelter. Even a 3rd world pub could supply this, Let alone a pub in a busy tourist area.

The fact that they used the excuse of the tables being booked on the second night to me just appears to be an excuse. If they don’t want drinkers money. That’s fine just put a sign up outside saying ‘no drinkers please, food only’

However, I have had the last laugh. The beer was over 5 pound a pint. I estimate that the pub overheads would not be more than £2 a pint. So they lost £3 a pint profit. So I estimate that they loss out on a further £64 on beer profits alone for the following 5 days let alone the profits from if we had eaten in the pub as a family.

Let’s hope they don’t miss my money during the...

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