From the Morning Advertiser, 8th Dec 2020
https://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2020/12/08/How-are-pub-rules-being-enforced
Police have been accused of “overzealous” enforcement of tier two restrictions in pubs, with landlords reporting officers arguing over ’substantial meal’ regulations and throwing out customers after they finished eating.
Young’s CEO Patrick Dardis told The Telegraph officers in London asked customers to leave a pub premises as soon as they had finished their meals, preventing them from ordering more drinks.
It is also reported that police visited premises to argue over the regulations - insisting that Scotch eggs could not be considered a ‘substantial meal’ that allows punters to order alcohol.
Dardis said: “As if we haven’t got enough to contend with we have had some overzealous officials going into pubs unnecessarily and it’s a bit intimidating for customers.
“This whole petty argument about a Scotch egg, whether it is or whether it isn’t [a substantial meal] is not relevant. What it actually means is a table meal, a substantial meal is just made up nonsense.
“It’s unnecessary and unhelpful given the problems that the sector has had to deal with over the past months and the amount of money we have spent creating secure and safe environments.”
The intention is to destroy the hospitality industry for good so that Bojo and his genocidal buddies at the WEF, UN, CDC etc. can "build back better," and re-organise society so that it becomes wholly anti-social. Personally I wouldn't trust any of them to build a Lego house.
Personally I wouldn't trust any of them to build a Lego house.
... but they will be bricking it if the population wises-up.
I think he's right to complain. There is nothing specific in the law which describes what sort of foods constitute a table meal, other than being something people would ordinarily eat for breakfast, lunch or dinner or the main course of those meals. It doesn't even refer to time slots for those meals, so customers can in theory order breakfast items in the evening.
I did look previously but there is nothing in the law, from memory, which refers to customers having to leave onve they have finished eating, only that they have to be seated and can only order and be served with alcohol if they are also served with a "table meal".
I hope the big pub companies have started to engage their lawyers to fight back against every instance of this overreach by the police. One would imagine all pubs can adduce evidence to magistrates that they have considered the new tier laws by having updated their C19 risk assessment and undertaken a review of menu options they restrict/make available versus what was ordinarily on their menu.
