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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
It might not be to your taste Guinness but it will be acceptable to many others.....myself, I see it perhaps as one step up from Mc Donald's......maybe you don't.
Maybe those families who cannot afford to go to a restaurant, will go there.....and if the finances look up then maybe they will move to the next rung of tha ladder.
Many families take their children to these establishments in order to 'test the water'.....to see how their children fare in a dining out experience....because they know that there is more leeway given to children in a pub than in a restaurant.
A bit like breaking children into theatre by taking them to a panto first....giving them a taste of what is expected of them.
But, in any case you won't need to bother about any of that because you won't be a patron.
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You are right….Plastic food is not to my taste, and after reading your posts over the years..neither is it yours
Your arguments about acceptability and affordability falls flat….ask any child over 6 if they want to go eat at one of these places or go for a McD, KFC or a pizza.. and by the way.. isn’t that dining out? Don’t you sit at a table and eat? Can’t you get a feel for how they would behave using a fast food restaurant specifically aimed at kids as a template?
And thinking about it..I would never drink alcohol if I were driving and had kids with me, and this place is sited where I’d need to drive, use a taxi or have a soft drink, kinda negates the reason for it to serve alcohol. Then again marked up soft drinks are the way these places operate.
Frankly when I want to wind down over a meal or a pint…the last thing I need is a whiny pre-pubescent or a stroppy teen within twenty yards of me.
Belabouring my point yet again…it’s not a pub, it’s a fast food restaurant..
I agree it brings jobs..full time for chefs, managers and apprentices, part time/zero hours for bar, cleaning and waiting on……and I agree it’s a very pretty building on a bit of waste ground since the last pretty building was knocked down.
The only reason I’m knocking this place is because you guys are calling it a pub…It ain’t!