In message TdE8o.107063$X%4.89772@hurricane, at 22:02:43 on Wed, 11
Aug 2010, " remarked:
I wonder what would happen if somebody tried to pay for a pint with a
Scottish one-pound note.

The barman would probably say they were about £2 short.
Let me rephrase that: What if you tried to pay for your pint using
several Scottish one-pound notes?

He'd probably say "I'm not trained sufficiently to be able to accept
those".
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Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message TdE8o.107063$X%4.89772@hurricane, at 22:02:43 on Wed, 11 Aug
2010, " remarked:
I wonder what would happen if somebody tried to pay for a pint with a
Scottish one-pound note.

The barman would probably say they were about £2 short.
Let me rephrase that: What if you tried to pay for your pint using several
Scottish one-pound notes?

He'd probably say "I'm not trained sufficiently to be able to accept
those".

On the subject of training, is it just me, or has every bar person in the UK
lost the ability to add up/check the price of a drink as they pour it? old
git mode when I were a lad, working in a pub you would add the round as you
went along & inform the punter of the damage as you handed him/her the last
drink. Today, the process seems to be serve drinks then prod listlessly at
the till, sometimes asking the punter to remind them what they've just
served them, until enlightenment dawns and a sum of money is requested. And
then asks the sodding great queue that's formed "who's next?" then wonders
why some people get a bit upset! /old git mode
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Cheers, Steve.
Change jealous to sad to reply.

On 2010\08\12 09:01, Steve Dulieu wrote:

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message TdE8o.107063$X%4.89772@hurricane, at 22:02:43 on Wed, 11
Aug 2010, " remarked:
I wonder what would happen if somebody tried to pay for a pint with a
Scottish one-pound note.

The barman would probably say they were about £2 short.
Let me rephrase that: What if you tried to pay for your pint using
several Scottish one-pound notes?

He'd probably say "I'm not trained sufficiently to be able to accept
those".

On the subject of training, is it just me, or has every bar person in
the UK lost the ability to add up/check the price of a drink as they
pour it? old git mode when I were a lad, working in a pub you would
add the round as you went along & inform the punter of the damage as you
handed him/her the last drink. Today, the process seems to be serve
drinks then prod listlessly at the till, sometimes asking the punter to
remind them what they've just served them, until enlightenment dawns and
a sum of money is requested. And then asks the sodding great queue
that's formed "who's next?" then wonders why some people get a bit
upset! /old git mode

For stocktaking purposes, they might be required to enter a code for
each drink rather than just prices.

Steve Dulieu wrote:

On the subject of training, is it just me, or has every bar person in the
UK lost the ability to add up/check the price of a drink as they pour it?
old git mode when I were a lad, working in a pub you would add the round
as you went along & inform the punter of the damage as you handed him/her
the last drink. Today, the process seems to be serve drinks then prod
listlessly at the till, sometimes asking the punter to remind them what
they've just served them, until enlightenment dawns and a sum of money is
requested. And then asks the sodding great queue that's formed "who's
next?" then wonders why some people get a bit upset! /old git mode

Not sure about pubs but when I worked in a coffee shop some years ago we
entered everything * on the till via short codes and never had training in
what the actual prices were or if they had changed (the stock did rotate
about a bit). But also in the intensity on the till where a lot of drinks
have similar names and multiple sizes and you're dealing with people in
rapid succession it's very risky to rely on mental arithmatic to add up the
bill as you can easily make a mistake and tell the customer before the till
rectifies it.

(* Annoyingly some customers would bring sandwiches from the food hall two
floors below, resulting in us on the till having to dig up the infrared
reader, which was generally parked in such a way that this was very awkward.
Those sandwiches also had a different price on them but it was hard to say
they were technically food from outside when we were taking money for them!)