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28-05-2016, 17:42
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A few years ago, I posted about the growing problem (http://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/ring-my-bell.html) of walking into a pub, finding nobody behind the bar, and having no means of summoning any service. Sadly, this phenomenon, if anything, seems to have got worse in the intervening years. Of course I appreciate that, at times, pub staff can be struggling to do three things at once. But, whatever the pressures, leaving the bar without service for five minutes or more is rank bad practice. I have on occasions walked out of pubs because of that. Even if staff are rushed off their feet, a quick acknowledgement of your presence and saying “I’ll be with you in a minute” works wonders.
The obvious answer would be to provide a service bell, as I proposed at the time. However, in British culture, that can come across as a touch aggressive and peremptory, rather like sounding a car horn. So surely the ideal solution, as one of my twitter followers has suggested, is to have a squeaky toy rubber duck on the bar. Friendly, humorous and completely non-confrontational.
@oldmudgie (https://twitter.com/oldmudgie) a small store in my town in Texas had a squeaky rubber duck mounted to the counter 😆
— *Shannon*Sparkles* (@anImaginaryEcho) 26 May 2016 (https://twitter.com/anImaginaryEcho/status/735741804583096320)


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