It surveyed 5,914 adults and found two in five (40%) said they would prefer to queue single file to order at the bar, while 39% preferred the traditional way of ordering by waiting at the bar to catch the eye of a member of staff. Some 21% of respondents were undecided.
The survey follows some recent debate about whether forming orderly single-file queues to purchase a pint is considered acceptable.
Gender divide
However, there was a slight gender divide with less men (38%) happy to form a single queue and more (44%) preferring the traditional route to ordering at the bar.
More women (43%) were happy to queue single-file to get served at the bar while just over a third (34%) preferred waiting at the bar to catch a member of staff.
Just under a quarter (23%) of women surveyed suggested they didn’t know which one was preferable but only 19% of men were undecided.
Though the queuing at the bar phenomenon does not seem to have taken off as consumers failed to witness many incidents on their pub visits.
No queues
Of those surveyed just over a third (38%) said they had not seen such lines forming when they were in the pub, while 18% said they had seen it once or twice and only 6% claimed to have seen it many times.
Worryingly, 28% said they have not been in the pub in the last 12 months, while 10% said they did not know or didn’t recall if they had seen a queue.
Of those confirmed as pub-goers around a third (34%) said they have seen such lines forming at pub bars, including 8% saying they have seen it many times.
This survey follows recent research from CGA by NIQ, which showed just 2% of bookings are now after 9pm, with 16% of consumers stating shorter waiting times were one of the reasons for the earlier bookings.
