The Rovers Return is coming to a high street near you

[Sweetpea]

Popping down the Rovers for a quick half will no longer be the exclusive preserve of the residents of Coronation Street if ITV pulls off a plan to put a themed lookalike Rovers Return in every high street.
The idea is to cash in on the soap opera’s popularity in the way that Disney has developed from movie-making to a global theme park chain, and licensed Cheers bars have cropped up all over the world.


The Rovers Return is coming to a high street near you - Times Online


Look out Weatherspoons!!

[jaysay]

I bit late they're knocking the real one down

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

if ITV pulls off a plan to put a themed lookalike Rovers Return in every high street.

They just don't get it, do they?

The REASON the RR was/is popular is because it came from the days whenm each pub had individual character.

Put one in every high street and they will have the character of Mc Donald furnished by a 60s ship yard canteen equipment storehouse.

The amount of WONDERFULL Victorian pubs I have seen totaly gutted, so some wanker with a Tony (OOOOHHHH PLEASE do THAT to me again George sweety) Blair degree in inner archetecture/design can throw up (perhaps LITERALY) HIS idea of what the Victorians "Were really TRYING to say, by putting those plastic imitation Victorian bar stools along the immitation plastic Victorian, MFI formica bar. Because These plastic things are SOOO much better than all that old wooden rubbish aren't they luvie."

headoff

Tits.

[Sweetpea]

You have a very good point there. It will certainly cut down the visitors to the set I would have thought. Most go just to see the Rovers.

The money now would be in open air pubs. Pubs with a roof and heating but no sides, perhaps just one.

Trouble is they would not get insurance. I mean security insurance. NOT the elf and safety type.

They would if there's nothing to nick.

The 'bar' could be on a trailer - just driven in place at the start of the opening and driven away at the end. The building could have sides, but roll up roll down ones and the tables and chairs could be made of concrete or other such heavy impossible to shift materials.

They have them in Germany. But normaly tempory for certain events, such as the beer fest, or Jule fairs.

But then again, when we have workmen tearing up the street, they leave their tools on site over night and at weekends, and do not board up the bulldozer windows at night either.

Can you smoke in them?

Originally Posted by Ck.

Can you smoke in them?

Well, with the Germans being not HALF so rebellious as you, probably not.


Of course depends where you are. In Bayern and München no. Berlin, Brandenburg yes. Hamburg, Meceklenburg vorpommern, Rheinland Pfalz, maybe.

It depend on what each lands Government decides.

ALSO, the ban only came in the first of this year. We will have to wait until the summer fairs, and then the Oktober fest, to see if the smoking bans get any challenges in the courts.

We had an interesting one that recently came up. A pub owner in München complained that as he was the sole worker in the pub, the pub only had one room, and he and a majority of his customers were smokers, then the ban would mean his bussiness would suffer dissproportionately.

The first court upheld the complaint. So now he is about the only pub in the whole of Bayern where one may smoke.

The Bayern Government is taking it to appeal in July or so. If the ownwers case fails, then he will be banned again from October.