To not want to eat in Wetherspoons?

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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.

@Ddot

Think you'll find I never mentioned the clientele or the staff either. I find it depressing and without charm, the staff were fine very polite but the place had no atmosphere or music. The food was bog standard. Sorry I dont eat out often so bog standard is not for me.

I am sure @saraclara will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that was exactly her point.

Just go to a cafe and meet them later. Wetherspoons is very cheap and the food is over cooked and dry most of the time. Maybe suggest another pub you could eat at?
The remark about drunks being there since opening is a bit harsh but I agree they aren't very nice- all sticky tables and carpets. The clientele generally reflects the prices like most places

You are a massive snob (just like your parents), yet cheap and classless with it-what kind of person lol brings their own drinks to an eatery?

Oh and now thanks to this thread I want to go to Spoons and try their pizza and their fish and chips. Firstly I will need to practice my best disparaging face to use on all those alcoholic old men though!

but I agree they aren't very nice- all sticky tables and carpets

And the point that I and many others on this thread keep making - clearly on deaf ears: they aren't all like that

@Ddot

Think you'll find I never mentioned the clientele or the staff either. I find it depressing and without charm, the staff were fine very polite but the place had no atmosphere or music. The food was bog standard. Sorry I dont eat out often so bog standard is not for me.

It’s their policy not to have music, and not one I had a problem with when I occasionally did eat there. Not everyone wants music while they eat.

Oh and now thanks to this thread I want to go to Spoons and try their pizza and their fish and chips. Firstly I will need to practice my best disparaging face to use on all those alcoholic old men though!

I think you'll manage a disparaging face quiet naturally once you see the food tbh.

Yeah it's shit. I actually used to like the food but they changed it around 2018. I was amazed when I ordered food and a pile of reheated crap arrived within a few minutes. I don't go there anymore.

@RampantIvy

but I agree they aren't very nice- all sticky tables and carpets

And the point that I and many others on this thread keep making - clearly on deaf ears: they aren't all like that

Exactly. And there are plenty of non-Spoons pubs and restaurants that are like that.

As I've said upthread, they have draconian kitchen cleaning audits and bonuses and continued employment depend on the outcome, so you can generally rely on the fact that the food is prepared in good conditions.

Guess for the old men using them as somewhere to sit for the day, the places provide a valuable social service. They wouldn’t really bother me too much providing they didn’t try to take the food off my plate. I presume the snobs aspirational among us would prefer it if the old men were turfed out to sit on a freezing cold pavement and tug their forelocks while a few coins were thrown at them by posters hurrying past with their drinks which they’d bought elsewhere (now that is downmarket).

I honestly love getting a weatherspoons pizza and a glass of wine for about £6- they do really good pizza !

@PinkSyCo

You are a massive snob (just like your parents), yet cheap and classless with it-what kind of person lol brings their own drinks to an eatery?

@PinkSyCo You'll find that many parents from different cultures wil not dine in a Wetherspoons type of place because the food isn't the type of food they're used to and regard it as frozen reheated ready meals which they wouldn't even eat at home. Nothing to do with snobby.

I've never tried Wetherspoons pizza. I'll have to give it a try next time I take the kids out for a bargain super cheap meal.

You'll find that many parents from different cultures wil not dine in a Wetherspoons type of place because the food isn't the type of food they're used to

Do you not think there's a difference between choosing to not eat there and judging other people for eating there (which is what seems to be implied by the op).

I wouldn't choose to eat in a steakhouse but I wouldn't 'die a bit inside' if I saw my children in one.

Thanks for posting the Winter Gardens info @PumpkinsandTea, now I'm off to google what an 'electric peat bath' is/was!

Indeed. It is my family’s culture not to eat in down market chain pubs. Others can knock themselves out though.

@MsTSwift

Indeed. It is my family’s culture not to eat in down market chain pubs. Others can knock themselves out though.

When third child came along after 18 years we did the Whitbread pubs, Ball pit crap food with high chair, never again I said. Well we have grandchildren now 🙈