A London bar has become the first in the world to use artificial intelligence to help bar staff know which customers should be served first.

The technology developed by DataSparQ uses a cameras and AI to determine where you are in a queue, with the company claiming this will avoid arguments and speed up serving times by between three and five seconds per order.

It will also flag up those who look under-25, and let bar staff know if they have already been checked.

The technology, which ran a trial at 5cc Harrild & Sons bar in Farringdon during a busy shift last month before crunching the data, will now be taken to a pop-up bar in London at the end of September.

The company says it aims to roll the technology out to pubs, bars and festivals in ‘the next couple of months.’

Research done by DataSparQ’s data team said that the average drinker in the UK spends over two months of their life queueing at the bar, with eight in ten drinkers placing those who push in queues as their biggest turn-off.