Phatz Bar in Maidenhead

Phatz Bar is a modern bar with a lean towards funky soul music. It offers many different flavoured vodkas, cocktails and shooters. The bar, also stocks draught and bottled beers and conventional spirits. The bar attracts a wide range of people, but is aiming to attract those who are 21 and over. BUT NOT IF YOU ARE A SERVING SOLDIER.



Grieving soldiers who attended the funeral of a comrade killed in Afghanistan were stopped from entering a bar because they were wearing military uniform. The three soldiers and one Royal Marine were not allowed into the Phatz bar in Maidenhead after they attended the funeral of fallen Rifleman Daniel Hume, 22. The bar's door staff adamantly refused to lift their "No uniforms" policy, despite the fact that the group was accompanied by Rfn Hume's distraught father.

Rfn Hume was killed by a roadside bomb on July 9 while on foot patrol with 4th Battalion The Rifles at Nad e-Ali, in Afghanistan's Helmand province, just weeks into his first operational tour and only months after passing out as the best cadet at his training regiment.
His body was flown back to Britain and his funeral took place last Thursday afternoon at All Saint's Church, in the Humes' home town of Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Members of the public applauded spontaneously as the coffin was brought into the church, which contained hundreds of mourners including over 50 servicemen and women in uniform. Rfn Hume was given an honour guard of riflemen.
Afterward, a group of around 50 mourners went for a commemorative drink in Maidenhead town centre. It was around midnight when 12 members of the group - which included three soldiers in fatigues and a Royal Marine in full dress uniform headed to the late night Phatz bar, which normally remains open until 2.30am.

Rfn Hume's father Adrian said "They arrived at the Phatz bar, which Daniel had been to on occasion when he was on home leave, before me. When I got there they appeared a bit upset.
"They said the guy on the door had told them 'you can all come in, apart from the squaddies'. He refused to let the four who wearing uniform into the bar because they were wearing their uniform."
Mr Hume added that the servicemen were resigned to the situation, having experienced similar situations in the past.



Grant Page, manager at Phatz, said he turned the men away because "he had been told that there were 100 soldiers had been drinking all day and that some of them would be heading for his bar and I have to protect my customers' interests" (but not if its 100 people out on a stag or hen night)



Now im not a spiteful person and I wish no ill on any decent person and im sure any decent person would agree with me when I say to the people of Maidenhead and those that choose to visit Maidenhead for a night out to boycott this is the place which employs *Grant Page

*A Traitor and Jobsworth who is not fit to lick these soldiers boots.