[Closed] The people who go to wetherspoons

Wetherspoons is posh for Brighouse!

I've had many a good night out in the 'Spoons in Merthyr* when up at BPW. Some great beer choices as well.

*Not [i]always [/i]ending up in the Vulcan, I should add.

Cool story bruv.

Normal people are so scummy aren't they.

I was shocked when I headed into Brighouse the other day. And I live near Keighley.

I was looking for healthyish food though, which was maybe a bit overambitious.

Wetherspoons generally has exactly the kind of clientele you'd expect in the cheapest pub in town.

I'm sure those kids will be in school tomorrow, bright as buttons and eager to learn.

not keen on wetherspoons myself.....always too big a building and very echoey

Big fan of Wetherspoons. Great breakfasts, decent range of beers, good value for money. Often in interesting older buildings that have had features retained - one in Cambridge is in a great 1930s former cinema.

Depends where you go, round here the one in town a few miles away is crap, but the one on the high street is great..
Bit like most pubs really..

Their curries are pretty good.

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Foods crap but a varied selection of beers nothing too much hipster but usually something drinkable. It's cheap and top of all is - no ridiculous music playing at any time. You can have a decent conversation

Is it full of really judgemental people?

Have a good shower when you get home and burn your clothes.

Bet you felt a bit 'excited' though?

If you want to see more ordinary people in their natural environment, may I suggest a football match?

There might be some swearing, but if you get scared, tell a policeman you own a woodburner and he'll hold your hand.

I like a Spoons. The beer is always good, with some variety and it's almost always very well kept too. The food is OK too, not gourmet or overly exciting but always consistent and you know what you'll get. And it's obviously cheap.

Is it full of really judgemental people?

Depends - it's fun to people watch in there... but what if the people watchers are watching other people watchers...

if you get scared, tell a policeman you own a woodburner and he'll hold your hand.

*Applause!*

Is it full of really judgemental people?

Beat me too it!

Can't beat a 'spoons*.

*apart from Minehead. That one is shit.

I am judgemental, correct.
That's why I post on here.

Can't beat a 'spoons*.

*apart from Minehead. That one is shit.

Oh yeah, think you're better than Minehead do ya?

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On a day trip to Bristol, we went to the one right on the harbour side, lovely spot.
Fed and watered two adults and three kids for lunch for £18.
That includes a fancy pants San pelligrini lemonade for 99p, which is £3or so at pizza express.
I can't knock them.
My local one, in sowerby bridge, does "appear" to be in touch with local history and has a decent range of ales on, often from local breweries and is quite a nice place.

The staff at Minehead looked like they had all bee shown photos of their own arses and food had been on a hot plate for about a month.

Skipton, Buxton, Ilfracombe, Great Yarmoth, Colne, Bingley, York etc. All very, very marvellous.

It would appear that we *are* the people who go to Wetherspoons.

The one in Preston is really nice*, if bloody enormous.

*For preston. 🙂

Maybe this might help..

There's people at the bar who were talking about being out on the lash all day and families just ordering food with kids under 10 years old at 9 o'clock at night.

That's the problem with the plebs- up close they are never quite as you imagined them whilst having your artisan coffee and reading the Guardian.

Think I went to the Merthyr one once. It was ok. Great selection of beer at fair prices. I did see one bloke with a hilarious slacks and, I dunno, sort of orthopaedic shoes combo going on...but he didn't look like he needed them. Anyway...gave us a few giggles with our beers.

Surprised you could see anything from table height, DD.

Feeky little chucker! 🙂

They do kiddie seats - even at nine o'clock.

Often have eggs Benedict at the spoons in Stourbridge, better than the French bistro at the other end of the high street

😀 @daidarcy!

I did see one bloke with a hilarious slacks and, I dunno, sort of orthopaedic shoes combo going on...but he didn't look like he needed them. Anyway...gave us a few giggles with our beers.

Mr Tumble?

I've just spent the weekend at Pontins in Prestatyn, I don't feel I can comment on wetherspoons.

You just have to pick the right one, wouldn't dream of going in the local one with the GF, it's just full of taciturn 50-60 year old builders getting pissed and people wit tats on their knuckles (mostly women).
Big fan of the pulled pork burrito and pint deal, went to a huge spoons in the city near Bank of England on Sunday and not a chav in sight, great pint of Mauldrons mole trap too.

'And Dylan can't sue'.

Good one in Aberystwyth too,old station building ,much better than Starling Cloud down the road i'm told by friends as i now live else where.

Doesnt Jay Z and Beyonce like Wetherspoons, Or was it the Beckhams? Victoria and Brooklyn at Tuesday curry club

Gourmet burger and a pint for 6.50 ish. What's not to like. And the big breakfast is bang on with a hangover.

I go to wetherspoons, but then I'm a notoriously oiky prole.

You just have to pick the right one, wouldn't dream of going in the local one with the GF, [b]it's just full of taciturn 50-60 year old builders getting pissed[/b]

Gourmet burger and a pint for 6.50 ish. What's not to like. And the big breakfast is bang on with a hangover.

😀

40 you cheeky ****er!

When I lived in Brighouse, there always seemed to be lots of people with a limp. And lots of people in slippers!!

Wetherspoons pubs are generally decent. Good choice of beer and decent food for decent prices.

Rockhopper - that one in Bristol is a Lloyds Nr 1 - big difference round these parts 😆

He should try the one in Bedminster wallop. 🙂

Good one in Aberystwyth too,old station building ,much better than Starling Cloud down the road i'm told by friends as i now live else where.

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.