The inhospitality industry
I don’t often blog but I wanted to tell the story of a pub crawl I didn’t go on. A niece of mine recently turned 18 and her weekend celebrations involved a pub crawl and house party. I can speak of the latter being a fun evening, but this is the short tale of the former. A cheeky WhatsApp informed me my niece was starting her evening out in a Wetherspoons. The app is the greatest innovation of the age and after asking whether they all had ID she replied yes, they were 4 of them, I sent them a bottle of prosecco and enough glasses. My sister would have disapproved of shots or the lurid coloured cocktail jugs they may have preferred. The following evening I noticed there were 4 times the number at the house party. Alcohol availiable and no divide between those that hit the magic 18 and those that hadn’t. Why only 4 on the night out? A simple reason. Only 4 of them were 18. Not only in Wetherspoons, they were ID’d in every bar they went in. Further to this each were ID’d an...