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What did foreign tourists think of UK pubs? Well, luckily someone went to the trouble of carrying out a survey.Not very clean, seems to have been the main complaint. I can understand what they meant. late in the evening, especially if a pub was busy, the staff might not have time to go around collecting glasses, emptying ashtrays and cleaning tables. Which is one of the reasons I always took my empties back to the bar. If you didn't, your table could become completely filled with empty glasses.
"Tourist's eye-view of English pubs
Dirty glasses and full ashtrays are the two main gripes tourists have about English pubs, according to a recent survey carried out by Interflow Ltd., on behalf of Reckitt & Colman Industrial Division. Public houses were under the room-for-improvement section and were, in fact, bettered only by hotels, restaurants and "top-of-the-table” London Airport.The survey, full title: The Qualitative Survey on the Attitudes of Overseas Tourists to Cleanliness in English Pub Buildings, concluded that although many pubs were thought to be bright and welcoming - and the respondents praised the whole institution of the English pub — some foreigners remarked adversely on the standards of cleanliness encountered in many pubs which they had visited.Typical of the comments was the statement from an Italian visitor: "I have been to quite a lot of pubs. Sometimes they are very drab and messy and sometimes they are bright and comfortable. I like a pub to have comfortable chairs and carpets. I think when people are in a place with a carpet they do not so easily throw things down, like cigarette packets or ash.”But let the last word come from a German who remarked: ". . . although the place was rather dirty the beer was very good. They must have looked after their cellar so beautifully they didn't have time to dust.”"
Brewers' Guardian, Volume 99, May 1970, page 34. At least you don't have to worry about overflowing ashtrays any more. But the weird London thing of not providing beers mats mean that tables in the capital's pubs soon become annoyingly wet.
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What did foreign tourists think of UK pubs? Well, luckily someone went to the trouble of carrying out a survey.Not very clean, seems to have been the main complaint. I can understand what they meant. late in the evening, especially if a pub was busy, the staff might not have time to go around collecting glasses, emptying ashtrays and cleaning tables. Which is one of the reasons I always took my empties back to the bar. If you didn't, your table could become completely filled with empty glasses.
"Tourist's eye-view of English pubs
Dirty glasses and full ashtrays are the two main gripes tourists have about English pubs, according to a recent survey carried out by Interflow Ltd., on behalf of Reckitt & Colman Industrial Division. Public houses were under the room-for-improvement section and were, in fact, bettered only by hotels, restaurants and "top-of-the-table” London Airport.The survey, full title: The Qualitative Survey on the Attitudes of Overseas Tourists to Cleanliness in English Pub Buildings, concluded that although many pubs were thought to be bright and welcoming - and the respondents praised the whole institution of the English pub — some foreigners remarked adversely on the standards of cleanliness encountered in many pubs which they had visited.Typical of the comments was the statement from an Italian visitor: "I have been to quite a lot of pubs. Sometimes they are very drab and messy and sometimes they are bright and comfortable. I like a pub to have comfortable chairs and carpets. I think when people are in a place with a carpet they do not so easily throw things down, like cigarette packets or ash.”But let the last word come from a German who remarked: ". . . although the place was rather dirty the beer was very good. They must have looked after their cellar so beautifully they didn't have time to dust.”"
Brewers' Guardian, Volume 99, May 1970, page 34. At least you don't have to worry about overflowing ashtrays any more. But the weird London thing of not providing beers mats mean that tables in the capital's pubs soon become annoyingly wet.
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