The Ale House, Stroud

Intimidating, bully of an owner.
VERY disappointed!!!
I went into the Ale House for a drink with my partner early on Friday evening. I took a call from my son which I had to put on loud speaker due to the speaker on my phone being broken (it was no different to having someone else sat on the table talking to me)
The next thing I know I’m be shouted at in an aggressive manner by an red faced scarecrow looking man and his group.
This man was absolutely awful about me being on my phone and was set on humiliating me.
The whole pub came to silence and watched whilst he shouted at me stating he was the owner and to get off my phone, the table next to us stated they could not hear us on the phone and my partner also stated she could not hear my conversation with my son. If this man is the owner ,he has a very nasty and threatening way of dealing with two females who have gone in for a drink on a Friday evening.
Never in all my years have I been shouted at in front of a pub of people by an owner.
If my call was bothering him (and he is more than entitled to have expectations in his pub) all he had to do was come and speak to me, not shout so loudly to ‘shut up’ and humiliate me in front everyone in the pub.
It’s such a shame as we often pop in for a drink and a game of bar billiards and the staff have always been lovely.
TRULY AWFUL experience and an awful and intimidating man who is nothing but a bully.
Now I understand why it’s always empty.

29 Jul 2023 09:31