Children running round Wetherspoons

[AleFailTrail]

AIBU to think the Spoons isn’t a family pub in the vein of hungry horse etc. And that if your child sprints in to someone carrying a pint or two, causing them to fall and spill said pints, you should at the least apologise to the person and replace the drinks, rather than scoop up a beer soaked kid and walk off. Or when they pull a menu board down strand it back up and tell the child off, not reassure them it’s okay and the staff will sort it? There’s no play areas and the pub is very, very full right now.

-A very beer soaked RailAleFail who is mourning a pint of porter and her boyfriend’s cider

I'm glad the manager sorted them out, sounds like they are a decent pub - and I mean the team working there rather than the bloke who owns it.

I really don't get the snobbery round it. But then I'm quite happy to feed my kids McDonald's, Burger King etc as well as home cooked food (currently making cottage pie for dinner😇 I'm so kind to my kids, feeding them every day! )

All Wetherspoons are shit and are frequented by shit people. I'd never been to one but was lured into a grand converted bank in Gracechurch Street in the City of London one Sunday lunchtime with the promise: 'This is the best Wetherspoons in the country.'

I went to the bar and got into an argument with a cunt about pushing in. I hadn't pushed in. There were no children present. It wasn't even busy. I never want to go there or to any branch of Wetherspoons ever again

To the PP suggesting a local micro pub. There is one near me, the most unfriendly shithole I have been in, the sneers I got as a woman drinking ale were unreal and enough to trigger a major panic attack. Limited as I said mine is a particularly good one and I know the staff there.

I will be telling the manager on Wednesday about todays staff, as I say they all know me in there anyway.
To those who say what do you expect...well...let me pour your pint down you then rummage in your bag.

(Am home and de-beered now and have hand washed the wool coat hoping it won’t smell of stale ale)

@Awwlookatmybabyspider because of this lending in people's mailboxes.

Oh I see

Kids shouldn't be running around anywhere. They should be seen and not heard.

Spoons is full of kids here. Cheap food = packed with unruly families. We don't go anymore because they stopped letting the dog in (he's not unruly!)

The worse thing I ever had in a Wetherspoons was frozen avocado that was part of a salad. It was unrecognizable, looked a slimy lump of green gunk.
The waitress revealed its origin ,, who the hell freezes avocado.
Gth1234..you sound a real child lover,,ffs

TheOxymoron

Not sure how I'm shaming you!! You're the one who chose to post on a thread about wetherspoons saying that you're with the 'snobs' who would rather pay more for a nice meal! Why be rude about where people choose to go? You must understand how that sounds to those who can only afford something like wetherspoons. I don't know your background and I'm not in inverse snob...I'm just asking why you felt the need to contribute in a way that would inevitably cause offense?

Went to the Spoons in Ramsgate when we were down there last summer. Amazing place, like a cruise liner and right on the beach! It's the biggest Spoons in the world apparently.

I don't frequent Spoons regularly myself but my 18yr old and his mates love the one in our town. They all have the Wetherspoons app in their phones which means they can order and pay for their drinks and have them brought to their table without moving a muscle. It does make his monthly bank statement listing every transaction about 6 pages long though.

I personally don't want to give Tim Martin, thd cretin, anh of my money so I tend to avoid them.

Back to the kids in pubs issue: most kids are well behaved, don't tar them all with the same brush. But perhaps the boorishness that characterises some 'typical Spoons' customers in the public imagination makes these parents think it's OK to let their kids act like that? Fair play to the bar staff and manager for kicking them out.

Well to put rices in context we have, within walking distance:
Two Greene King pubs, only ale is Greene King IPA (bleugh)
One Micropub (see above), no food
One local pub, no ale at all
One gastropub, one ale, usually bombardier, Han egg and chips is £12.95 and fish and chips is £16.95. Pints are £3.15
The Spoons above, club deals are £5.75-8.10 and include a real ale, assortment of guest ales, pizzas (are NOT microwaved, they just had the pizza oven put in!!) £8.49 inc Ale at the most.
Where I’m staying until my house is fixed I am not welcome at family dinners, not allowed to use the kitchen and can’t have a microwave in the room. It’s rent free but can’t wait til I get my house back once the bloody insurers are done fighting over it (it was damaged in a gas explosion just over a year ago, nobody died but the insurers are fighting over who pays for the repairs)

Also the app doesn’t let you order guest ales. Which defeats the purpose for me. My name isn’t RailLagerFail

*LagerFailTrail

It sounds like they've handled it pretty well, but when you speak on Wednesday don't forget to heap praise on today's staff for escorting these horrors out - you could even add that you'll be bringing more friends in, now you know they'll deal with things properly

It's only by normal folk backing them on this that the practice will grow, leaving the rest of us in some sort of peace

Totally agree with this! I wish more people would complain loudly to give staff more ammunition to get rid of people like this. And complain to managers, duty managers, head office etc. People need to realise that bar/waiting staff aren't babysitters so they can get pissed enjoy themselves at the expense of other customers trying to also get pissedenjoy themselves. And they will be asked to leave, and backed up by management when they fail to make sure their children behave suitably.

Oh God my local Wetherspoons.

I hope you are reading this, Tim Martin.

Your manager lets his friends in with their very young children, no-one in their group is eating food, they just get pissed and swear loudly. The children are their from the 3pm pick up onwards, poor little things.

Yes I complained, got told to leave. Nice.

Wetherspoons are generally very good on throwing people out in my experience! We were once in a fairly local one to us and a group of regulars were being absolutely vile to a young family who had sat at 'their' table. The barman was quick as a flash over to them and basically said that he was sick of them and they should just bugger off until they could be civil. We were all and ...didn't even have time to complain!

Spoons sell great coffee (with free refills). Definitely a reason to visit.

Our spoons is really nice. Built in an very old building, lovely beer garden, good cross section of clientele. But anyone who takes their children into any pub for so long that they get bored and start running around should be chucked out and barred

I have a bit of a similar story, on Friday my DH came to meet me at lunch. I work in a not very nice area, but the spoons by my work is usually filled with people who work locally.

We got there and the table near us had two women (who I discovered were mother and daughter) and a toddler. The table was filled with empty glasses, they had been doing jagerbombs!! The baby was running around and almost tripped up a waitress! Nanny took baby to fruity to entertain.

At one point they smacked the toddler for being bored and messing, at that point I told DH I wanted to leave. I told staff as I was leaving why, I don't know if they did anything.

I was there under an hour, they had a bottle of wine, another round of jagerbombs and granny was getting more drinks as I left (I heard her say she was getting jack Daniels and coke!!!)

Staff were not arsed?! They were super busy and it was probably too much effort to kick them out.

Use the app so that you don’t have to walk through the pub with drinks.

It's pathetic that Wetherspoons allow parents to get drunk with young children in tow. I presume it must be unlawful?

On and p.s. Tim Martin, you still owe me for the dessert I paid for for my family when I was told to leave, for complaining about about the pissed effing and blinding women with their nursery aged children at the next table to ours.

I know I’m old but I just don’t see what business kids have in pubs. I never have understood it. It’s also crazy to me that they have crayons!

Sure, when we’re out with DS we take him to a coffee shop if he’s hungry or maybe a restaurant if we’re at a family venue like a farm or a play area but he really has nothing to gain from being in a pub. He’d probably get restless and bored and it wouldn’t be much fun for anyone.

My local spoons is really variable. It's often pleasant to sit in and do some work with their bargain refillable coffee and a breakfast or lunch. Other times I've had an old chap daytime drinking determined to make me talk to him, screaming kids, or rowdy ladies. It is what it is, you pays your money takes your chances!

Alles you must be really old. I'm 51 and remember my aunt taking me to a pub with swings and a climbing frame in the garden several times.