[Closed] The people who go to wetherspoons

Allegedly:

Don't GAF about how the staff are treated/paid?? 😉

Or what is in cheap food?

Dont know if either are true, but both came up on previous threads

Next thing you know you'll be buying your wife a second-hand Nissan micra 🙂

Next thing you know you'll be buying your wife a second-hand Nissan micra

Without heated wing mirrors! OH TEH HORRORZ!

Wasn't it a Viz Top Tip?
Want to meet the entire caste of Michael Jackson's Thriller video? Simply visit Wetherspoons at 1030 am.

I've been into the one in Brighouse. And I limp.

"but if you get scared, tell a policeman you own a woodburner and he'll hold your hand". You sir have just won the interweb,I salute you 8)

Nothing better than a long bike ride followed by a visit to a weatherspoons for a meal chosen based on the calorie content.

Used to be reserved for Friday Lunchtime beers (Whitehaven) one of the friendlier places in town 😉
Beer decent, food decidedly average but you get what you pay for

I'm surprised nobody has suggested leaving a scathing review on tripadvisor.

In my experience, Whetherspoon's seem to be very well run pubs. You may not agree with their business model, but you can't fault them for execution. Clean, well staffed, cheap, plenty of seats, good selection of beers..... that may not be what you are looking for in a pub, but lots of people are.

Much better than the "Firkin" pubs of the 90's

I worked in one over a summer when back from Uni. Mostly in the kitchen but behind the bar too. The food's fine for what it is and the beer's good. The breakfasts are great. Steaks aren't bad. Staff aren't treated better or worse than any of the other big chains. Not as well as anything higher up but then, they do't attract the same level of staff so it's the same as any other industry.

Ours was a strange mix of tourists (Exmouth) and old men. Got a younger, mixed crowd after work. I'd imagine it's no where near as nice in the winter whereas with the beer garden and plenty of customers it wasn't bad.

The coffee seems very good.

We have two in Weymouth. The William Henry has the families and the noise. 400 yards away is The Swan same menu and drinks but not kids, TV or music.
Take your choice. If I'm only down for a weekend it's hardly worth stocking the fridge with more than a pint of milk so I often breakfast there. Wearing Crocs.

Wife and I often go into our local Wetherspoons. It's not fancy, but ideal for a mid week pint and meal deal.

Is the Guacamole still Guacamole Style because it's really cheap mushy peas with seasoning?

I shall avoid the guacamole in future. Next you'll be saying that the quails's eggs are actually pigeon, or hedgehog.

Dundee one; you stuck to the carpet,Aberdeen one is next to the court,nuff said on those two. Perth and Fort Bill ones are ace.

Eggs benedict rocks. Perfect pre ride brekkie, with unlimited coffee for 4.19.

Big fan of Wetherspoons. Great breakfasts, decent range of beers, good value for money.

and families just ordering food with kids under 10 years old at 9 o'clock

Two words - Bengali, Tiger

rocket jr and his mates go to our local Spoons so it must be really cool

The one in Wilmslow is more pleasant that the one in Piccadilly Gardens.

That rather depends if you want "pudding" after your all day breakfast.

Was it Mark Beaumont who cycled round the world only eating McDonalds, his rationale being that there's one in every town and you know what you'll get so he didn't waste an hour+ every day choosing and waiting for food to be cooked.

Weatherspoons is like that, but a pub.

pigyn - Member

Two words - Bengali, Tiger

I'd shoot the customer not the tiger tbh

location does count for a lot.

+1

Makes a huge difference, as at the end of the day it is the clientele that make it grim or not.

Regarding the Picadilly gardens one, I remember being on the bus in Manchester and two old boys were moaning that due to people getting on without the correct change they were going to be late for opening by 5 minutes 😯

I do like Wetherspoons, under £5 for two pints of (mostly) decent beer. Food is ok too. Breakfasts are cracking.
Dont like the fact you can be eating brekkie before 9 when theres two blokes sat opposite on the lager though!

I remember being on the bus in Manchester and two old boys were moaning that due to people getting on without the correct change they were going to be late for opening by 5 minutes

Ahh the best posts are always the last ones

Allegedly:

Don't GAF about how the staff are treated/paid??

Or what is in cheap food?

Dont know if either are true, but both came up on previous threads

I worked for Weatherspoon's many, many years ago in a Brewer's Fayre. I would say they treated the staff very well. The pay was good (at the time), working hours were fair and they put on staff parties and the like. Morale was always good.

The food was mainly frozen and bought in. The only fresh cooked stuff would be the daily specials. That being said, it was always consistent. Not Michelin quality, but well priced and not slop. One thing they do score highly on is kitchen cleanliness. They were unbelievably thorough with cleaning and hygiene, so I'd always eat in there safe in the knowledge it was cleaner than every other restaurant or bar I'd worked in.

That's good to know BB - I feel happier now especially as my kids go there and mini THM is just about to start a holiday job in a local pub !!!

My Wife was bought in to turn round several underperforming Spoons when she worked for them. I was quite impressed that if the staff worked hard to maintain cleanliness, took care of the beer properly and reduced wastage they could earn a substantial bonus each month (up to around £300).
My favourite Spoons evening was attending the Christmas Managers' Ball, forget one free bottle of wine per table, we were all awash by the end of it and Mr Wetherspoon seemed like a driven but nice bloke.
Did you know he named the chain after his old teacher who said he would amount to nothing?

The last Wetherspoons pub I was in was in Glasgow, by St George's Square. Big and noisy, but impressive. We found a reasonably quiet little corner and enjoyed some lovely beers and a surprisingly good burger. The staff were excellent, even substituting the standard shite lager/John Smiths that normally comes with the meal deals, for some nice stuff, for no extra cost!

We live in an area festooned with good pubs. Mostly filled with Yummy Mummy/affluent middle class types and many serving organic this and that, but you can get a nice pint and a burger in the local 'Spoons (much more varied and interesting clientele; old soaks and those down on their luck looking for a cheap pint and somewhere warm to sit, to trendy student-arty types, and old lefties who refuse to go into the 'gastropubs' on principle), for less than half the price of a fancy burger (doesn't taste any better) and pint in the 'posh' places. The 'Spoons is actually great for avoiding the aforementioned middle class types droning on endlessly about house prices and nurseries etc.

I like posh pubs. They keep the boring ****s out of Wetherspoons. 😀

And by contrast; I was in a 'rough' Irish pub last night; landlord had to turf some pissed bloke out for constantly trying to tell us 'jokes', then had a very heated argument with some blokes who'd done some decorating work for him. 'You'll get paid when you've finished the job and not before! Now stop ****ing swearing in front of my customers!' I had to be very careful when leaving, not to get fresh gloss paint on my Rapha jacket.

I find this idea that pubs may contain people who some consider to be 'undesirables' quite amusing. Pubs were never genteel, sophisticated establishments, they were always the preserve of the lower classes. If you don't like the idea, then maybe a wine bar is more your style.

I like 'Spoons, and I live in Brighouse. I am clearly scum 🙂

If you don't like the idea, then maybe a wine bar is more your style.

Have you ever been in a Yates?

Keeping the undesirables out of 'spoons.

My local spoons is I believe the smallest spoons in the country, it's rubbish.

I like the Greenwich one (Gate Clock) and the Canary Wharf one, (Ledger Building), both the ones in Maidstone used to be ok, and the one I saw the outside of in Buxton looked like a very nice pub

Can't believe they did away with the Sunday Roasts though

That rather depends if you want "pudding" after your all day breakfast.

Hmm, we have a Whetherspoons in town which is as divisive in town around the 'local pubs' as it is here.

The beer is always good, kept well and a good selection

The chips are not chips, they are potato clouds rolled in a coating of some sort. This is a big issue for me.

The best thing anyone I know who goes in there can say about it is 'its cheap'.

I don't use it. There are better pubs in town that are 'Freehouses' and privately owned by people that I regard as friends like what a pub should be. They may not be as cheap but then I don't get to go out often enough to need to look after the pennies. If I do go out it is regarded as an occasion nowadays so I make sure I get good food, great beer and good company. Whetherspoons seem to only hit one of the three.

I fairness to them, they took a minging looking building that was fit for knocking down and they have saved it and it now looks really good.

I like the Greenwich one (Gate Clock) and the Canary Wharf one, (Ledger Building),

Aren't they both Lloyd's No 1 bars rather than proper 'spoons?

Stayed in the one in Peebles last year. Fab rooms, good breakfast, good price. What more can you ask?

I'm just popping over to This and That for lunch.

I am suddenly overcome with jealousy.

Fond memories of the scruffy Spoons in Turnpike Lane which had special dispensation to charge 'provincial' rather than London prices. And the excellent Gujarat restaurant next door.

I like most Wetherspoons if I'm in a 'foriegn' town centre and fancy a pint and some tasty if unhealthy food.

It saves risking a really shit local pub - although the flipside is that I could be missing out on a hidden gem.

Reasonable selection of non-****erish beers at a pretty good price - what's not to like? The clientele is not really to do with it being a Wetherspoons - more to do with the town it is in and the selection of other establishments available.

They're obviously good at what they do.

The new(ish) Spoons in De-La-Zouch is top quality. Always good for a bit of grub with a decent beer included.

As others have stated some good some bad, mostly good I would say.
Can't fault the quality of the steaks on steak night, although they have stopped doing the 2 steaks and a bottle of wine for £17 deal.
Breakfasts are good as well particularly the Scottish version with McSweens haggis.

I was in a Weatherspoons in Glasgow two years back picking up a visa, it was a pretty grotty one down on the main road leading towards that shopping center.

I was driving so couldn't join anybody else with their all day drinking at 9am, but I enjoyed breakfast and a cup of tea.

When I went to the toilet, a very large man followed me in, and asked me if he could watch me wee, I politely declined, he said something about having just been chatting to me on Grinder.

I left just as another man walked in on his smart phone, I assume looking for his new friend to watch pee.

I continued to enjoy the remains of my breakfast, the two gentlemen must have had a very long pee as there were in there ages.

there was the rumour going round that the reason they could by beer cheaply was that it had past its sell by date, i can tell you this isnt true, as if breweries have old beer just lying about, enough to stock a nation wide chain. we sell about 8 casks a week to 3 of our local spoons, and they are fastidious with bbe dates and proper cellar management, unlike a couple of local free houses i could mention, one who takes delivery and its on the bar the next day, and another that had one of our beers on in november, when i hadn't brewed it for 5 months...

I HATE the places. The food is universally dire, I have never had a decent meal there, and sent back several. The drink is cheap, but if you are a wine drinker that is not a good thing.

I hear the hotel is good for the money at the one in Peebles, and they didn't mind/care when my friends blatantly smuggled their dog in.

Call me a snob, but if your friends want to meet there routinely, get some new friends. Join a club or something.

The spoon in Fort William is probably the best pub in the town.

The spoon in Shipley, is a grim horrible place, where scum que up outside at 9am to get their drink.

I did think their business model was built on buying bulk at near BBE date so they get discount off the brewer, but yes they never sell out of date, and they do look after the beer.