People start queuing in a line to get into Norwich pubs

Instead of crowding around the bar waiting to be served, punters have been forming orderly single-line queues – like they are waiting for a bus.

But now landlords have had enough and are taking a stand against the new queuing habits.

People around the country are starting to queue in single file in pubs (Image: Pub Queues Campaign)

Mark White, who runs the Brewery Tap in NR3 and Hop Rocket in Unthank Road, has experienced the trend himself.

He said: "It's definitely a bit odd.

"I've stood in a queue at a bar and it was weird.

"Bar staff need to start telling people when they are not queuing well.

Mark White runs The Brewery Tap and Hop Rocket (Image: Newsquest) "We have great staff and rely on them to recognise who is next without a single-file queue. It is part of their job.

"Our staff have to serve - or at least acknowledge, when we are busy - every person at the bar within a minute of them arriving.

"The pub industry is one of the oldest businesses in the UK and the unwritten rules for pubs have existed for centuries.

"If it ever started happening in one of our pubs then we would advertise that this isn't what we want."

It's not only younger people who are doing it anymore (Image: Pub Queues Campaign) The strange queuing habit isn’t just happening in Norwich, but is a nationwide trend.

It has prompted the setting up of the Pub Queues Campaign to stop pub patrons from forming orderly queues while waiting for a pint.

The campaign has tens of thousands of followers on social media, with people sending in pictures of people queuing in single file.

Pubs have started putting up signs asking people not to line up (Image: Pub Queues Campaign) Generation Z is being blamed for starting the trend, with some suggesting that the Covid pandemic meant young people never learned how to wait to be served at a bar.

Katie Drake, 21, said: "My instinct is to queue in a pub.

"The first time I went to a pub was when the gardens had reopened during Covid and everyone was being very cautious.

"I just followed the crowd and it has stuck."

Katie Drake, 21 (Image: Newsquest) However, it's not just those within the 18 to 27 age category causing the long lines.

Katie added: "It is a majority of young people who are doing it, but older people are starting to follow.

"It has become a learned behaviour now and I don't know if it will change soon.

"At the end of the day, if I get to the bar and get my drink I don't mind how I get there!"

Phil Cutter owns The Murderers (Image: Copyright Archant Norfolk 2015) Phil Cutter, owner of the Murderers in the city centre, added: "It would only happen in Britain, wouldn't it?

"People are queuing by the bar like they're waiting for a bus.

"There are lots of unwritten rules around being in a pub that you learn, and there is definitely a gap left after the pandemic.

"I also think that pubs being understaffed isn't helping the problem.

"We've not seen any queuing in the Murderers, but I have in other city pubs."