To not want to eat in Wetherspoons?

[giveitarestplease]

Popped out with BIL and OH today, I absolutely despise Wetherspoons but they love a bargain and aren't too fussy.

I'm not a snob in anyway shape or form I just can't stand it. I eventually went with them and sat in there and waited until they finished.

I just hate the old dirty pubs and how fast the rancid food comes out 🤢 the alcoholics that have been sat there since the moment they opened the doors on the morning.

I'd much rather go to one of our local independent cafes and have a nice lunch and I know it's not coming out of the microwave. I know it's not the same price bracket but you know what I mean.

They always laugh and joke and call me a snob and say I think I'm better than everyone else. But I'm really not and I don't think that.

@SatsumaPumpkinFace

Think my mum and dad would die a bit inside if they seen me eating in there

Hmm, wonder where you got your snobbishness views from? 🤨

Shame they weren't a little bit snobbier about education though...

The owner also sacked all his staff in the first few days of the pandemic and told them to go and work in Tesco

Ffs no he didn't!

I had breakfast in a Wetherspoons a few years ago with my adult daughter. The food was edible, but was full of people drinking alcohol at 9 in the morning and the atmosphere was horrible. Never been back since and would actively avoid that chain of pubs too.

They might have been night shift workers?

Meh ,I quite like wetherspoons ,food it's cheap and cheerful ,it's not compulsory to go in if you don't want too ,🙄

@giveitarestplease

My parents wouldn't look down on me for eating there that's not what it is. They just see food like that (microwaved quick food)as rubbish kind of thing.

Didn't think I would ruffle so many feathers over me not wanting to eat in Wetherspoons! And also I didn't sit there staring at OH and BIL eating there food. I had DD with me and we both had hot drinks that we bought before we even went into there what we was drinking. I definitely don't sit there judging them for eating at Wetherspoons. If that's what they like I will go with them and wait for them to finish I still had a nice time chatting and catching up with them.

It's extremely rude to take your own drinks into a pub ,wether you like the place or not .

I never minded a weatherspons until I moved to the shithole I live in now.

I shudder just thinking about it.

(And the ones staggering around outside my local one in the morning are most definitely not nightshift workers 😂)

Do any posters who avoid spoons because of the Brexit stance aslo ask if the independent cafe/restauarant owners voted for Brexit?

I know it sounds like I am defending Wetherspoons. I'm not. I'm just playing devil's advocate here because they aren't all the same.

It is interesting that everyone who has worked in a Wetherspoons has stated how clean they are.

As for the OP, taking a drink you have bought elsewhere into a premises that sells drinks is the height of rudeness. I don't know how old her DC is, but did she really make her child sit there hungry and watch other people eat?

I get that price might be a factor but how is it acceptable for food not to be “too bad” or “ok”?

That's loads of places that charge similar and more for food that is ok or not bad.

What astonishes me is how much some places get away with charging for pizza. It's so cheap to make. And often it's ok or not bad. But nobody makes a fuss about that.

Do any posters who avoid spoons because of the Brexit stance aslo ask if the independent cafe/restauarant owners voted for Brexit?

No. None of them have anything like the media attention and therefore influence of Tim Martin. None of them are running a multi million pound business.

It's not the same.

I hate it too for the same reasons and I am very much working class.

Bloody cheek taking your own drinks in and drinking them. In any pub or restaurant, not just Wetherspoons.

@ErickBroch

YANBU the food is vile, all cheap pub chains are, not just Wetherspoons. Happily drink there but I don't eat the food - no snobbery, it just tastes terrible. I'd rather have a McDonalds or KFC!

Because McDonalds and KFC isn't vile. Righto.

I’m not sure anyone who uses the term ‘what we was drinking’ can take a moral high ground on the basis of
classiness…

Also all the people saying ‘sticky tables’ you do know that is literally down to the management of that individual branch? They don’t buy in a job lot of sticky tables 🤣

I am very partial to McDonald’s. The one near my house is SHIT. Does that mean I hate all McDonald’s? No- just that one. Whereas I actually don’t like the recipes of KFC so I don’t eat it.

You can’t really have a homogenous recipe for ‘tuna jacket potato’, it’s literally just a potato and some salad and tuna 🤨 so not sure how something so benign can be universally ‘rank’ etc. A one off or a particular branch, ok.

I’m not sure anyone who uses the term ‘what we was drinking’ can take a moral high ground on the basis of classiness…
I didn't want to point that out but you've done it for me.

Do any posters who avoid spoons because of the Brexit stance aslo ask if the independent cafe/restauarant owners voted for Brexit?

An independent cafe owner isn't invited on BBC Breakfast to share their position and doesn't have millions of social media followers.

I’m not sure anyone who uses the term ‘what we was drinking’ can take a moral high ground on the basis of classiness…

Don’t be an arse.

OP said she’s from the West Midlands. I moved here a while ago - my dds last two parents eves would have shocked you as the teachers use that term. It’s a very common term (where I am anyway).

(And OP, I’ve noticed the ‘spoons in my part of the West Midlands are VERY different from where I was in the south east previously.

@Siriisatwat

I’m not sure anyone who uses the term ‘what we was drinking’ can take a moral high ground on the basis of classiness…

Don’t be an arse.

OP said she’s from the West Midlands. I moved here a while ago - my dds last two parents eves would have shocked you as the teachers use that term. It’s a very common term (where I am anyway).

(And OP, I’ve noticed the ‘spoons in my part of the West Midlands are VERY different from where I was in the south east previously.

Teachers shouldn't be using non standard English at parents' evenings. Honestly.

This is my local Wetherspoons. Last time I ate there, I had a freshly baked Pizza that I saw the dough being spun for, as I was at the bar......

Nothing dirty about it, I can assure you

@derxa I was hardly going to pull them up on using colloquialisms at the time, that would have been quite rude of me.

@RampantIvy

Do any posters who avoid spoons because of the Brexit stance aslo ask if the independent cafe/restauarant owners voted for Brexit?

I know it sounds like I am defending Wetherspoons. I'm not. I'm just playing devil's advocate here because they aren't all the same.

It is interesting that everyone who has worked in a Wetherspoons has stated how clean they are.

As for the OP, taking a drink you have bought elsewhere into a premises that sells drinks is the height of rudeness. I don't know how old her DC is, but did she really make her child sit there hungry and watch other people eat?

No why would I ? A local independent one didn't have the media attention, influence and corruption and propaganda within the pub itself

@PumpkinsandTea

This is my local Wetherspoons. Last time I ate there, I had a freshly baked Pizza that I saw the dough being spun for, as I was at the bar......

Is that the Harrogate one?

Ours aren't so fancy round here.

I lived in a pub as a little girl. Some of the old gaffa's who could make a pint last for hours, propped up our bar, because they were old, lonely, and cold. They were some of the nicest blokes in town. They'd spin yarns that warmed the cockles of a little girl's soul!

You do sound a snob, and very judgmental.

@RevolutionRadio Busted It is indeed. It's very fancy.