Went in for lunch Friday lunchtime, pub was already quite busy with drinkers and there was virtually nowhere free to sit upstairs.

Not too many staff around and basically had to clear our own table in order to have somewhere to sit.

In one corner of one of the upstairs rooms was a table piled high with approx 30-50 dirty plates, glasses, knives and forks etc from where other customers had also cleared their own tables over several hours - everyone had stacked the dirty plates onto the same table. In general the eating area wasn't being cleaned.

Staff can't keep up, and don't seem organised in such a way as to take responsibility for particular areas. This means they're repeatedly serving food to tables that can't have been cleaned - but they probably don't realise and assume someone else cleaned it if new customers are sitting there.

As customers pay through the app, there's also no staff to gradually move people on as they take orders, deliver food and check if meals are ok, clear tables and offer desert - meaning the seating gets full up because people stay at tables for ages. When someone finally leaves the next group of people just jump into the dirty table because they're desperate to have somewhere to sit - as we did.

Food was acceptable otherwise, cheap and cheerful, adequate portions for the price.

Wouldn't be in much of a hurry to go back during peak hours though.