Drinkers in Spoons

[TheDaringOliveNewt]

I'm away and at spoons having breakfast.

Every single table apart from mine has pints going, at 8.30.

Aibu thinking it's weird?

Yeah, like there are super, good, ethical places to eat breakfast everywhere. 🙄

Well that's a lie.. I worked there for 6 years and apart from airports they actually dont have a licence before 9am. So... the queue , of which ive never seen in the 6 years will not be of an alcohol policy.

Well, quite.

I don't know where some posters live, but in many towns, there is no choice!

Nightshift workers possibly?

I do, and I'm very fussy about where I eat breakfast. Why would you think the quality isn't as good as other places just because it's cheaper than some?

Sometimes on an 7am shift to 7pm shift is one man's work ?
No different to 7pm to 7am shift of which its his " evening " and wants to go to the pub. Eat , an "evening meal " and go to bed ... no ?
I fucking hate MN sometimes and being so judgemental

Oh, the bijou café run by Antoine and Francesca is just the best! I always have smashed avocado and free range egg on wholemeal toast - a snip at £15!

There’s your Spoons clientele just there
YABU joining them

I'm not sure where you're getting that 5% from but it's highly inaccurate. The sausages are supplied by Loughnanes & are a minimum of 57% pork

YABU
Have you been living under a rock?

How is it different from champagne in an airport lounge at 6am ?

Champagne? Pffft. In airport lounges at 6am it’s pour your own massive G&Ts, several times, and be careful on the escalators when you leave for the gate.

But that’s OK, because it’s not Wetherspoons.

Which is fine if you're ok with sausages containing 5% meat, served by students just happy to top up their uni spends.

Why shouldn't I be ok with being served by students working their way through university? Most restaurants in summer are staffed by 18 yo school leavers or students, and they are very good at it.

I was most impressed with how hardworking the young staff at a seaside Spoons were one summer a few years ago. And how strong they must have been - very petite very young women toting trays loaded with pints.

It seemed a nice sociable place to work too - there'd be groups of them taking their breaks together out on the decking overlooking the beach.

Gloriias friends are exhausted after listening to Gloriia preach for the entire shift

Because you fancy a drink.

My Dad (born 1918) used to tell me stories of having a crafty 6am pint after a night shift at Smithfield market in Birmingham in the 1940s. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Our nearest spoons is full of bloody students (university town). But the food is good and order on app and unlimited coffee.
Also it isn’t icky and the toilets are the best I have ever been too!
Our village alcoholic is sitting in the bus stop with his can! He can’t steal from spoons, so just steals from the local shops. As is only!! £5 or so the police aren’t interested. He does buy until his money runs out!

I find that quite insulting and a very lazy, inaccurate generalisation. My OH & I often go to our local Spoons for a drink on a Saturday and I've never seen anything wrong with the clientele in there. In fact a couple we know are real wine snobs but love a drink in Spoons as it sells their favourite wine!

I live near a large airport. The local Spoons is aways rammed when people come off their night shifts. They just live their lives round the other way to the traditional 9 to 5.

@TheDaringOliveNewt

shocking for most mumsnetters but some people actually like going outside and being around other people

Another major plus about eating and drinking in Wetherspoons is they don't allow dogs, not even in outdoor areas. Cheap and no dogs. Brilliant.

Now that IS a plus!

I've done it before. I've met up with friends who worked nights in other care homes after our night shifts finished. We'd have a couple of drinks,catch up with each other, then go home and sleep the sleep of the dead!

Judge me/don't judge me, it doesn't matter to me! I know we'd all put in 12 hour night shifts and this was our "evening".

People get so bloody snobby about spoons. It's one of the few places the majority of the population can afford to go. It's also a safe place for people to go on their own.

I was sat in my local spoons when a young couple came in with a toddler in a pushchair. They looked a step above homeless. Both had a takeaway cup. The manager obviously knew them, directed them to the coffee machines so they could get themselves a drink on the house.

Spoons breakfast gets widowers away from their lonely homes. Gives the day drinkers somewhere to socialise and for people like me, offers a cheap place to have breakfast when away from home.

So that's a No then