Wetherspoons

[Aphex]

I remember reading about the Wetherspoons philosophy when they started to get big. No jukebox, no pool table or dart board, just cheap beer and a traditional pub atmosphere.
It's not exactly worked has it. Soulless drinking holes for tramps, cheap beer for cheap people. Instead of the traditional pub they are intended to be, they are the MacDonalds of pubs. Horrible places that suck the life out of the high street as surely as all the other big corporate shops. They might as well be called Beer@Boots or PubTesco.

You can't be so angry, they provide a service

The general public should be in your sights - we really are fucking suckers.

 

[Squelch]

Considering we're comparing pubs no-one has mentioned the beer yet.

I'd rather a pub that sells cheap beer, tops up the glasses to the correct measure, will offer a taster of beer before you decide whether to buy it, and sells real ale rather than gassy fizz-keg. Oh yeah, and gives a discount to CAMRA members.

 

[1_barry_conlon]

anything that offers care in the community and reasonably priced medication can not be such a bad thing. they only need to offer a soup run and they will be helping the underclasses perfectly :-)

I saw this thread and thought of you...;)

Glad you got onboard otherwise i'd have been hugely disappointed.

 

[urban genie]

If your on a day out to another town and want a quick snack and a pint thats not too expensive or meeting up with people in town who don't know the place as a focal point in dilly then they are ideal, if you are out for normal night out or a match day you must has serious issues if this is your perfect venue, they are all set up the same round the bar/door are the wino's, stood/sat around the centre are the chavs and groups of posing lads who think their the dogs and at the back those who just wanted a cheap meal. It were great when the moon first open brand new concept in the city and great use of the old cinema, but then now have a core clientèle that make them unappealing as a pub

 

[pinkwheeltrim]

I'm not much of a drinker to be honest but I do like the occasional pint of real ale. Wetherspoons pubs have some nice ales on,foods cheap,free wifi,no crap music blaring out ,plus my wife wrote her book in a weatherspoons and we are now traveling the world on the back of it.

They'll do for me! Looking forward to getting back home and trying out the one that's opened in Tod.

 

[bernabias home shirt]

You really know they are serving shit when they can serve a burger & a pint for £4

 

[MCFCTrick]

You really know they are serving shit when they can serve a burger & a pint for £4

Not neccesarily true.....they can do it so cheap purely because they do it in such a large volume. (As does my missus's lot who can do a carvery at just £3.89 in their Crown Carveries chain. And it is good quality fresh food they use)

Wetherspoons need to train the managers and staff on keeping their cask beers better though. The Paramount on Oxford Road is the only one where the manager (and his missus) prides himself on how well they are kept.

 

[bernabias home shirt]

You really know they are serving shit when they can serve a burger & a pint for £4

Not neccesarily true.....they can do it so cheap purely because they do it in such a large volume. (As does my missus's lot who can do a carvery at just £3.89 in their Crown Carveries chain. And it is good quality fresh food they use)

Wetherspoons need to train the managers and staff on keeping their cask beers better though. The Paramount on Oxford Road is the only one where the manager (and his missus) prides himself on how well they are kept.

But ive sampled it & it is as i said..........shit!

 

[poyntonblue]

Rumour has it we're getting one on the site of the Kingfisher/King's bar or whatever it's called this month.

 

[billy_big_spuds]

its just a pub.
its ok for a pint, thats as far as it goes....