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

<p>Patrons at two of the chain’s London pubs were all for Tim Martin’s ban on playing music or taking calls on speaker</p><p>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.</p><p>At Wetherspoons, the convivial atmosphere can no longer be punctuated by rude customers taking phone calls on blast, or playing videos without headphones after Tim Martin, the owner of the pub chain, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/18/wetherspoons-pubs-ban-music-calls-phone-speakers">banned both on his premises</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/18/wetherspoons-customers-welcome-ban-music-phone-calls-speaker">Continue reading...</a>