(24 Jun 2020, 10:24 am)mb134 wrote The thing with drive-thru fast food is that, while undoubtedly it's a bit quieter than the first few days, it's a completely different way of working for those on the inside. The shorter queues are likely a combination of both slightly fewer customers but also big increases in how efficient the staff are being with the new systems. Obviously with other industries there's not an awful lot of efficiency improvements - or at least not that will have a huge impact on queue speed.
With pubs, I think we'll see a more prolonged period of them being busy. Lots of people will miss the first weekend as it's likely to be utter carnage, but return over the following few weeks and give the pubs a more sustained level of custom.
No doubt, honestly I don't understand people's need to go to the pub, the only reason I ever went was for pub quiz, but I could happily live without it. Even more so with nightclubs, a year or two back I reluctantly agreed to go out with a few friends for a birthday as I wanted to see how bad it really was. As someone who doesn't really drink other than the occasional bottle of wine and hates loud music (if we can even call it music) I found it quite fascinating just standing in the corner watching.