To hope that this "new" way of queuing at pubs just becomes the norm

Because it's not normal to queue in a pub.

I hate the anticipation of 'the turn'. You know when the person in front is being served, you are peeping over the left shoulder, someone else peeping over the right. If person in front turns right you are in, if you move quickly. Eyes on the prize. But if they turn left you have to let them pass and person on right wins. This always stresses me out no end.

I work in a pub and wish people would queue normally! We have 4 tills on a long bar, often I'll be on my own serving on one side and people will go and wait on the other end and get annoyed when I don't serve them next. When it's busy we try to keep track of an order people got to the bar , but with multiple tills and app orders coming in its not easy and tends to be a case of 'whos next?'
Then you've got all the people blocking the card machines etc making it hard to actually serve the next customer.
I've never understood why this one place people don't queue the usual way

No, it's AWFUL!!!

Completely alien to pub culture and pub architecture. Bars are built to be huddled around not queued at. An abomination.

I was very, very confused by the English system in bars when I first went to London in the 80's. The bar staff got arsy if you tried to order before they had finished serving the previous customer. I was used to the Irish system where the bar staff had a minimum of 4 orders on the go at once. Standard approach is similar to England in trying to catch their eye but you place your order as soon as you catch their eye for them to do next. I couldn't believe English bar staff only did one order at a time.

The Irish system is due to Guinness - you have to leave it to settle and then top it up - so if you waited until you finished serving one person before serving the next, the bar staff would spend have the evening doing nothing.

The queuing system in that article is mad. Really inefficient for a bar selling any amount of Guinness.

Was at Brewdog Waterloo last week and you ordered from your table with an app. No service at the bar. It was stress less

Well I'm in my thirties so wouldn't consider myself an oldie about to die off. Also it's not weird, pubs are literally designed to have people queuing along the bar and multiple bartenders working behind it.

Best way to get served at a bar has always been to squeeze your tits together. Not PC but true

Wouldn't have worked on me or any of the other women I worked with behind the bar I'm afraid. Most good bartenders know who's next and will serve them first. Best way to get served is to tip or be a regular.

The staff need to be on the ball of who is next if it's busy. But the whole rigmarole of desperately craning your neck, politely waving etc, while staff literally refuse to look in your direction is utterly soul destroying.
I go to pubs so infrequently now, that if there was a queue to the level where it was unclear who was and wasn't before me I'd just leave. Too anxiety inducing already paying knocking on a tenner for a drink, never mind being jostled and blanked in the process of obtaining it.

I was in a pub relatively recently and it was quite empty. I went up to order some food, a long bar with no staff in sight and just one woman waiting at one end of it. I went and stood about halfway down the bar - she went absolutely apeshit at me. Screaming at me for trying to jump the queue. Obviously some unwritten rule that I was unaware of. Of course if the server had come along I would have let her go first but after that little episode I didn't fancy hanging about.

Queuing is the norm at my local ‘Spoons. If not an actual line of people a clear observance as to who is next.

Noooo! Hate this! And yes I've worked in a pub (for many years). If you don't want to stand at a bar then don't go to a pub. A proper pub means checking out what's on tap while waiting to get served and maybe having a laugh and a chat with the bartender or the person stood next to you. Also who wants a long windy queue of people running past their table? Let's not ruin pubs please.

Totally depends on the pub - my parents local, through dint of the floorplan/layout, does this. I find it a bit annoying but fine. Not normal ime elsewhere.

It’s sort of like the queuing convention on the Jubilee line thanks to the door set up that doesn’t happen on any other line. Woe betide those who push in!

Maybe I like the misery!!

Best way to get served at a bar has always been to squeeze your tits together. Not PC but true. Also, surprisingly,I've found early 40s tits work just as well .

Don't all Weatherspoons have the app though? It's the one thing I like about spoons(also the prices😀)

The desperate attempt to catch the bar person's eye. Their desperate attempt not to make eye contact. The lip reading dance when you do finally make eye contact, while almost breathing into the face of the person sitting at the bar, literally blocking the serving point. Yep, it's ridiculous.

I never understand why they don't just get rid of bar stools or have a bar stool area and a bar area for ordering.

I've seen a lot of moaning about queuing at bars lately, people moaning that it's not the done thing, decent bar staff know who's next, blah blah. It's left over from covid.

As someone who serves on a bar, I like proper queuing. I'm sick of old men getting arsey because they think someone has pushed in and they are so desperate for a Worthys that they can't wait two minutes.

When I worked in a really busy pub we were allocated a section of bar and told to work from left to right so it was fair as when one person came out someone would take their place but would need to wait till I’d finished trhe circuit before I got back to them.

What's the new way?

Don't most have table service now? You just order and pay though an app.