People should be served their drinks in order?

[beachwhirly]

Staying in a hotel.

Have ordered an Aperol Spritz. Man says he'll bring it over.

Then proceeds to serve two other people who came after me a total of seven drinks between them... before starting my drink. None of the two were queueing behind me when I ordered.

Drink just arrived ten minutes after ordering.

Would this annoy you? I work PT in a pub and I would never do this!?

Some things are easier/quicker/simpler to make in batches iyswim, that might be why?

But I agree ideally they should have started yours first

Yes that would annoy me

They all had different drinks.

Oh well. It's hear now.

I'd be slightly irritated yes, although AS is a time consuming drink to prepare.

What did annoy me was ordering three in a London pub recently. The server took ages to mix them, and then when I finally thought we were there needed to cut up two oranges to add a slice to each.

Veeery slooooowly cut them up. Like they'd never handled a knife before.

I could feel my will to live drizzling out of me.

YANBU but you have now made me have a massive craving for an aperol and I don’t have any in the house. Or any oranges. Or any of the ingredients at all

Serving in order can backfire too. Was at a restaurant with a large group. We all order drinks, something like 3 beers, 2 two ingredient drinks, 2 glasses of wine, and 2 complicated specialty cocktails (same cocktail).

The bartender proceeded to make 1 beer -walk to table, 1 glass of wine -walk to table, 1 complicated cocktail -walk to table, 1 beer- walk to table, 1 2 ingredient cocktail -walk to table, etc.

See she had taken the orders and made them in the order that she received them… sadly she delivered them that way too. We timed it and finally got the last drink 45 minutes after we ordered. I really hope bartending was not her long term career choice.

It was like watching the slowest train wreck in the world!

The best bartender I ever witnessed was in a normally quiet bar but happened to be at the end of a large parade. So clearly everyone piled in after the event. The poor thing was alone and facing 40+ people that all wanted a drink at the same time. As we were standing there waiting, I decided to to make things easier for and asked people what they wanted…collected orders and cash and was able to give her 1 order. 15 beer A, 6 Beer B, 3 Beer B , 5 G&T’s, 7 Jack & Cokes, etc.and a glass of water for the pregnant lady. Everyone was in a good mood and she cleared the orders really quickly. Told me later that she was a little afraid she’d be short with the money I gave her but found after all was said and done she ended up $100+ over (US -so I made sure to get her tips from people).

Yes it would be annoyed. 10 mins is cheeky

Aperol spritz is Aperol, soda and Prosecco.

A pint or a gin & tonic would hardly be quicker.

YANBU OP.

You’ll know to go to the bar in future !

Are you on your own? I think it happens quite a lot, this sort of behaviour, if you are, as if you are a nuisance and not a valued customer, a palpable whiff of disdain.