Wetherspoons

[staffsblue]

Does seem to be going that way - a bit like Yates's wine lodges. Tbf though the spoons business model does at least give some life to high streets in towns (even if it is lowlife), and the premises used would generally be boarded up otherwise. I think the local spoons generally reflects the local population, and if I really think about it, nearly everywhere I can remember there being a spoons there were generally worse pubs within the same town.

I think they have reached saturation point. Here in Stafford, they have just sold one out of the two on the same street.
Hopefully a viable independent business will take over the premises, but given that half the commercial properties at that end of town are now empty, I'm not holding my breath.
Ironically, the one they have kept open is adjacent to the River Sow, and seems to have to close on a regular basis when the river bursts its banks and floods the bar and cellar.

 

[ESP Blue]

I use the biggest spoons in the uk (summer only), to be fair it has a cracking sea view from the balcony.

Ramsgate, Kent.

 

[m7mcfc]

"Spoons" When people say it it makes me cringe. Same as "Macky D's. Shit holes that sell shit food and drink.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I use the biggest spoons in the uk (summer only), to be fair it has a cracking sea view from the balcony.

Ramsgate, Kent.

Where you can watch the dinghies roll in with Uncle Nigel!

 

[KS55]

On this day (29 Aug) in 1930 William Sooner died. He couldn’t tell the difference between a Buffin and a Marm.

 

[BrianW]

If one wishes to mingle with the lower orders, the Hare and Hounds on Shude Hill is a far better locus. Besides, it retains its authentic 1950s decor and serves as good a glass of Holt's bitter as may be obtained in Greater Manchester. I gave up membership of my Club when I discovered the place, as it is far superior.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Practically a regular at JJ Moons now, the staff just go usual is it :-)

 

[give it to gordon]

I use the biggest spoons in the uk (summer only), to be fair it has a cracking sea view from the balcony.

Ramsgate, Kent.

Was going to post that were I work the town has the biggest spoons in the uk !

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

That and the 21% meat sausages they serve.

Their Lincolnshire sausages used to be decent quality, now they taste like salted rusk with hardly any meat content.

 

[WestGorton]

Owned by a right wing owner peddling right wing propaganda under the guise of "free speech" in the magazine littered everywhere in the pubs. However they do cheap beer so it has its uses for Wembley trips so my morals take the occasional sabbatical.