APPS

OK so here I am. The 'Ranting Middle Aged Spinster' back 3 months after I last posted on this Blog. When I posted my last Blog on 31^st May 2020 I had no idea that life 3 months on still wouldn't be back to normal. But it's not and to be honest I'm not sure whether it ever will be again.

On the 4^th July when hospitality opened up in England, it actually seemed like life was getting back to normal. People could go into pubs and restaurants and book holidays in the UK.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm...........................

It was at this point that 'APPS' became the new normal. Grrrrrrr....................

So one has to book a time slot to go into a pub or a restaurant and one cannot stand at the bar. Everything has to be 'waitress service'. And when one goes to one of these establishments one has either to get one's temperature checked or has to provide 'track & trace' details. To be honest I'm not sure how the 'track & trace' detail thing works, because I know for a fact that a restaurant that I went into a week ago, had a staff member test positive yesterday and I still haven't been contacted. Anyway I will RANT about the 'track & trace' thing at a later date.

APPS...................................

APPS are the new way of ordering food and drink. Apparently Weatherspoons have been doing this for ages. Well before Covid struck. Now it appears that everywhere wants one to order via an APP.

I am 61 years old. I do not want to order via an APP. Part of the experience of going out for a meal involves pursuing the menu and actually having a real life person to serve you. Looking at the options, choosing what one wants to eat. Not scrolling through some APP that actually doesn't even have half the options on it.

For example a couple of weeks ago myself and a friend went to a very well know cocktail bar. I ordered an Aperol Spritz via the APP. My friend wanted a strawberry daiquiri, that she'd had numerous times before, but it wasn't on the APP. That resulted in her having to go up to the bar and actually ask a real life person if they still served them. They did but for some reason it wasn't on the APP.

And a couple of weeks ago myself and friends booked into a restaurant and were told we had to use the APP to order, but we were seated in an area which had no wifi or 4G network. Seriously??? Nobody came near us for half an hour so eventually we had to go looking for a real live person who could actually come and take our order. #whatiswrongwithgoodoldfashionedpenandpaper

And continuing on with this RANT....................... Went into a Weatherspoons pub with some friends a couple of weeks ago. One of my very techie friends managed to order our drinks via the APP. Mmmmmmm.................... how do you say on an APP that you only want one lump of ice or that you don't want half a pint of lemonade poured into one whisky???????

…...............But the worst APP experience was.............................

Waitress rocked up at our table with a trayful of drinks that she said we'd ordered and paid for. Errr................. no we hadn't. Obviously we would have drunk them given half the chance. Turns out they had been ordered via an APP at another Weatherspoons pub down the road.

APPS – I HATE THEM!!!!!!!