BBC NEWS | UK | Pub chain limits parents' drinks

BBC NEWS | UK | Pub chain limits parents' drinks

What utter nonsense. JD Wetherspoons have introduced a policy of refusing to serve a third drink to a parent with children, even if the other parent is drinking water.

Do Wetherspoons refuse to sell 8 pints to teenagers? No.
Do Wetherspoons refuse to sell 8 pints to a man who may then be going home to look after his kids? No of course not.

So why do they intervene in this ridiculous pseudo-moralistic way?

Their story has been changing more often this morning than Lucy's nappies. One minute it is down to health and safety legislation, then it is because kids will be bored, then a spokesman comes on and says it's not unreasonable to expect someone with a child to be limited in this way.

What happened to treating people as individuals and consdiering these things on a case by case basis? If the real cause is rowdy kids, stop serving their parents IF that happens. Don't blight the rest of us because there's a theoretical possibility that one child might get a bit restless and tip over a plant-pot.

It strikes me they just want to shift children through and out of the doors as fast as possible and thought they could get away with this patronising policy to achieve it.