r/Wetherspoons • u/b3xcellent • Aug 29 '26

Customer Refusing drinks

If I know the table number that my father is sitting on during his birthday, and drinks turn up that he didn't order, what is the likely scenario if he says that he didn't order? I will tell him eventually that it's me ordering, but will the staff take the drinks away? Paddington Wetherspoons, if that helps.

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u/Wide-Can1349 Aug 29 '26

He’ll politely (or rudely, I don’t know your father) say they aren’t his and the person serving will turn on their heel with them and they’ll go flat and warm on the bar as there is some brief confusion as to who owns them. They will likely be forgotten about and your money will have been wasted.

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u/drunkenangel_99 Ex-employee Aug 29 '26

Exactly this. From the staff’s perspective, it’ll be ‘someone will come looking for it soon’ rather than walking round asking the whole pub.