To not understand snobbery against Wetherspoons?

[CatsArePeople]

They're really ok. Certainly not worse than McDonalds or your local greasy spoon.

The cheapness of drinks is not important to me. My teen and young adult children go to Weatherspoons and even they joke about how minging it is.

My husband and I went this week for lunch as I'm pregnant, I know they do decent chips and that what I was craving!
It's a fairly big spoons and was surprisingly full for a midweek lunchtime... Most people seemed to have only pints and no food on their tables mind

Our local Wetherspoons:
Serves known alcoholics from 9am
Ignored most covid restrictions once allowed to open
Serves underage drinkers
Welcomes the people who have been barred from very other pub in the town.
Has customers who cause the vast majority of the fights at kicking out time in the town.
Has more police attendance than all other town centre pubs put together.
Serves alcohol to people who should have been refused service 3 drinks ago.
Sells lager from unclean lines (most of the booze they sell is almost at best before date) )
Is dirty
Is owned by a tosser.
What’s not to love!

Dislike Wetherspoons and Frankie and Bennys with a passion, as for Mcdonalds it's a no from me too. [Yanks up judgy knickers]

No snobbery just can't abide the owner. The way he treated staff over Covid was terrible.

Really? No way would I go to a Wetherspoons. Sticky floored booze bins.

I've been in some OK Spoons, and some that are a bit dodgy. I wouldn't go in one now, not since Brexit/Covid, Tim Martin's not getting any of my money!

@Legomania

It's not the pub per se, it's the clientele...

... and the owner.

I loathe Tim Martin’s political views but the backlash around Covid simply isn’t true. I am unlikely to go to a pub by myself but if I was going to I’d feel completely safe in my local Wetherspoons.

And they absolutely are worse than local greasy spoons. Much worse. Both MacDonalds and Weatherspoons serve shite food, and a traditional greasy spoon is almost always better than both of them.

Wetherspoons pubs are run by an absolutely disgusting individual.

I had to endure breakfast meetings at the local Wetherspoons for far too many years (closest venue). Sticky carpets, toilets NOT clean, old strange men drinking at 9am.

The food offering is all “from frozen”

Shudder…

I think I went to one once - late night, really drunk, remember lots of students type. It was a good night that ended rather messily as my friend Fran ended up spewing all over the sticky, striped carpet. It was the draft beer, she explained. Oh, we still chuckle about it.

Otherwise, no. I have never been nor would I want to. I don’t want cheap booze or cheap food. I’ll stay at home thanks.

God the amount of people who are still spouting the crap about him treating his staff poorly during covid is infuriating! I have relatives and neighbours who work at our local Wetherspoons and they were all treated just as well as any other pub/restaurant staff! My 17 year old works for them p/t and couldn't be treated any better

Apparently the carpets are unique to each pub. I believe there is a website dedicated to them

Spoons is a lot cheaper than CostaBucks for coffee & breakfast. And the cask ales are consistently excellent and great value.

Used to feel that they were good value, but their prices are constantly creeping up to a point where I'd expect something a little more appetising than the mangled half-heated up mess that my local serves for food. Drinks are still good value I think

I think they tend to reflect the town that they're in. The nearest one to me is in a rough town and has a bit of a reputation whereas I like the one in Worcester and the one in the town that I grew up in. Yes the food isn't anything special but it's never been badly cooked when I've had it and at least (unlike Frankie and Benny's ) it's not overpriced crap. I've never been to one just for a drink, always a meal.

@CatsArePeople

They're really ok. Certainly not worse than McDonalds or your local greasy spoon.

I have had food at all 3 over the Christmas holiday. ‘Local greasy spoon’ was far from it! Best breakfast I’ve had in a long time. Gorgeous ‘full English’ for £3.75.

McDonalds is consistent, you know what you’re getting.

Weatherspoons was just all round cheap, nasty food. 8 of us has different meals and they were all as basic as you can get.
Cheap though!

@HotMummaSummer

My husband and I went this week for lunch as I'm pregnant, I know they do decent chips and that what I was craving! It's a fairly big spoons and was surprisingly full for a midweek lunchtime... Most people seemed to have only pints and no food on their tables mind

You know it's pub that happens to also sell food , right? Not a restaurant? So why do people only drinking deserve that emoji?

@UneFoisAuChalet*I think I went to one once - late night, really drunk, remember lots of students type. It was a good night that ended rather messily as my friend Fran ended up spewing all over the sticky, striped carpet. It was the draft beer, she explained. Oh, we still chuckle about it.

Otherwise, no. I have never been nor would I want to. I don’t want cheap booze or cheap food. I’ll stay at home thanks.*

You sound delightful - bet the cleaner isn't still chuckling

@sparepantsandtoothbrush

God the amount of people who are still spouting the crap about him treating his staff poorly during covid is infuriating! I have relatives and neighbours who work at our local Wetherspoons and they were all treated just as well as any other pub/restaurant staff! My 17 year old works for them p/t and couldn't be treated any better

Yep. My friends' son worked for them for some time as a youngster. He laughed about his day release college course being "an NVQ in microwaving" but enjoyed his time there and was treated well (and paid better than most of his friends)

[quote recycledcat]**@UneFoisAuChalet*I think I went to one once - late night, really drunk, remember lots of students type. It was a good night that ended rather messily as my friend Fran ended up spewing all over the sticky, striped carpet. It was the draft beer, she explained. Oh, we still chuckle about it.

Otherwise, no. I have never been nor would I want to. I don’t want cheap booze or cheap food. I’ll stay at home thanks.*

You sound delightful - bet the cleaner isn't still chuckling[/quote]
The cleaner is probably used to it, Wetherspoons are happy to sell booze long after they should be refusing service

Yep. My friends' son worked for them for some time as a youngster. He laughed about his day release college course being "an NVQ in microwaving" but enjoyed his time there and was treated well (and paid better than most of his friends)

Honestly the one my son works in is so good to its staff. I find it hard to believe someone needed an ambulance to hospital and was then fired for being off sick! My son pretty much picks his own hours, has been told he can transfer to another one when/if he goes to uni and can still work there when he comes home for holidays etc. I can't fault them. Maybe he's just been lucky

With wetherspoons you always know what you are going to get. Our local one is decent and in the city centre you know which is the one that is least rowdy.

Owner is a total right wing tosser who has the gall to bang on about Brexit and yet Is a kiwi. I personally hope they go bust and all the London ones are bought by Fullers. Food is simply freezer food , it’s cheap and it’s a night away from the house I guess but they have priced it on extremely small margins basically to attract pissheads who drink a lot. They are often grubby and initially I liked their use of some lovely buildings— but who needed to go in and have anti EU propaganda on beermats and leaflets on tables. I have boycotted them ever sense. Probably got a ton of money away in offshore accounts