‘Can’t enjoy your pint’: Wetherspoons customers welcome ban on loud phones

Patrons at two of the chain’s London pubs were all for Tim Martin’s ban on playing music or taking calls on speaker The terrace of the Moon Under Water Wetherspoons pub in Leicester Square was full of people enjoying the warm weather and chatting between tables – without a TikTok video or speakerphone call in earshot.

The pub chain says the decision followed complaints about "other people's videos and amplified phone conversations".

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Wetherspoons said the pub chain has been receiving complaints from customers ‘being driven nuts by other people’s videos and amplified phone conversations’.

Chairman and founder Sir Tim Martin labelled the pubs as ‘an oasis of tranquillity and contemplation’

Wetherspoons BANS customers playing music or taking phone calls on loudspeaker  GB News