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?

It's cheap

Many of those drinkers will be home by midday. They are single lonely older men that are struggling. They may have been awake most of the night and just need some human contact. Don't knock them for it as one day you too could be sat looking at 4 walls and having not spoken a word to another human for days on end.

Why would you need to drink with a Spoons breakfast? I'd also add that the Freedom Breakfast & breakfast wraps are both lovely and better than other places I've been

Wetherspoons is full of rough people drinking right from the crack of dawn. I bloody hate those places.

Also some of us cannot stomach alcohol that early in the morning

I walk past a Spoons on the way to work just before 8am. The same people are queuing up everyday for their "breakfast" . They are obviously drinkers.
My ex is a drinker but he is also a snob so doesn't drink at Spoons generally, he waits til the other pubs open at 11, and this proves he isn't an alcoholic. He drinks on the bench outside the house instead like the village tramp.
We have work social lunches sometimes at Spoons because we can order on the app, its ready when we arrive and we are back in the office in 45 mins.
In my limited experience, Spoons is the hard core drinkers in one corner but they dont bother anyone, pensioners on lunch deals and unimaginative tourists who like to stick with what they know.
They are usually big enough to keep all the groups separate. Staff are all hard as nails and my hats off to them. My DIL worked at a Spoons for a while- she reckons she wouldn't be scared in any public facing job now!

Because often the other drinkers and bar staff are the only real people the 8am pints crowd have.

Why is going to a pub for breakfast weird?
My local does amazing food and they do breakfast on a weekend and it’s packed out.
When we go there for breakfast we also take DS so I guess we’re really weird

Most of our local pubs are family friendly. They wouldn’t survive if they weren’t.

You should try the airport spoons at 7am. They have Bloody Marys on tap.
we used to live near an airport and spoons was full of shift workers having a pint at breakfast time.
Breakfast and a pint en route to Saturday’s match.
We met in a spoons before a funeral, lots had flown in from Ireland so it was a fry up, pints and whiskey.
Lots of reason OP.

Cost.

My point was if you are offended by the idea of meeting day drinkers at breakfast maybe don’t go to a pub?

They might be lonely.

Wetherspoons has very cheap drinks. I think it’s sad as they’re usually older men. Probably alcoholics and or lonely.

If I’ve gotten up really early at the weekend and been for a long run or cycle I’ll sometimes stop in at a ‘Spoons for eggs on toast and a half pint. You can have a drink at 9am or a drink at 9pm, there’s no material difference in it. People are there drinking for all kinds of reasons, from lonely alcoholics, people on holiday, people finishing a night shift, people who just live as they please.

Alcoholics? Used to take my Nan to one in Bristol and there were a lot of single men on tables for whom it was a lifestyle. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it to an extent, but the cheaper the booze the better if you’re dependent.

They make a good breakfast and a veggie option as well. I wouldn't go ANYWHERE at 8am if I didn't have to, but I can imagine going for brunch there at 11 and some people like cooked breakfasts earlier.

It's also the price.

My local Spoons does an absolutely lovely breakfast.

You can also get a refillable tea/coffee so it's good value too.

Well over half of Mumsnetters are chugging down booze at 6am on Christmas morning, so 8am is nothing to many people 👀

Because for some of these people, that's what gets them up in the morning.

Maybe do some research on alcoholism. There's usually sadness beneath the surface: bereavement, depression etc.

I didn't actually realise that Spoons served alcohol that early, I assumed it would be 10/11am .. I've been in for breakfast and seen people drinking at 11ish and that's very 'normal' for Spoons... People go there because it's cheap and convenient.

Drinking alone is for alcoholics…

Classic Wetherspoons. They often have a line of (almost exclusively) men of a certain age queued up before opening time.

Fair, I guess. I can think of nicer places to have breakfast though and Spoons is notoriously a magnet for pissheads so it seems odd to be surprised to find them there!

True about the pissheads but as with any big chain, the area is everything.

HQ of alcoholics everywhere

this

On high days and holidays a Spoons full breakfast with a coffee and a pint of Guinness is the breakfast of champions!
Where do you stand on having a “Prosecco Bottomless Brunch”?

Maybe they can afford it and are sick of sitting at home and just feel it’s nice to get out?