London brewery is begging customers to stop queuing in single file at the bar

A weird phenomenon has taken hold at Hackney Church Brew – bar queuing (Picture: Hamish Glenn)

Bar queuing is no longer outraging the more committed pub-goer, but is costing venues valuable business.

Pubs are resorting to buying signs to stop single-file queues from forming out into the street, with many would-be customers turning away after seeing such a long wait.

‘It is such a weird phenomenon,’ Hamish Glenn, managing director at Hackney Church Brew, told Metro. ‘And it is costing us business.’

The bar has steadily seen a rise in queue forming since Covid. But in the last year, as more young people increasingly move to Hackney, it has become the norm.

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