Will you drink in Wetherspoons when pubs re-open?

[Brew_DD2]

I've been into many many Wetherspoons bars over the years. I can count on 1 finger how many have kept their cask beer well. The stuff they get in on cask has gotten worse over the years too. Hardly surprising given how badly they squeeze breweries.

 

[MyQul]

They may not be my favourite of watering holes, but they definitely have their uses. So yes I will drink in them again, I wouldn't cut off my nose for the sake of 6th form common room politics.

The coronavirus and the furlough specifically has shined a light who are decent employers and who are scum. I wouldnt say 6th form politics but showing employers who support people in their communites in times of need and those who are purely mercenary and dont care

 

[trueblue]

I've been into many many Wetherspoons bars over the years. I can count on 1 finger how many have kept their cask beer well. The stuff they get in on cask has gotten worse over the years too. Hardly surprising given how badly they squeeze breweries.

The only place I have had a bad pint of Landlord is in one of their pubs, guess you get what you pay for.

 

[trueblue]

The coronavirus and the furlough specifically has shined a light who are decent employers and who are scum. I wouldnt say 6th form politics but showing employers who support people in their communites in times of need and those who are purely mercenary and dont care

I hope a lot of them did go to work for Tescos and have found a better place to work so end up staying

 

[Clint]

People's memory is short... he'll get plenty of workers and plenty of customers coz he sells cheap beer...

 

[fury_tea]

What I like about our Wetherspoons is the crowd of shoppers that have been to Iceland for their frozen stuff and popped in for a pint...and spent the rest of the day there...

Mmm nothing like the smell of a melting ring of prawns on Giro day

 

[Chippy_Tea]

6th form politics get real this guy laid off his staff and told them to get a job at Tesco’s.

I you are going to boycott every place that has laid staff off you are going to be ******.

 

[Clint]

I kid you not...they're all pissed as handcarts by about 7pm when me and my mate usually turn up...all crowded round some tables they've pulled together...and there's always a small Mexican looking chap who has with him a great big fat woman squeezed into a wheel chair...both of them hammered..

 

[foxy]

Never let politics get in the way of saving or making money, or having a beer.

 

[labrewski]

Sorry but I have to ask never been to a wetherspoons or heard what the owner is like I know it's a cheap eat and budget drinks establishment but what did he do to make every one so against him

 

[the_quick]

I have been boycotting wetherspoons for month now, my reason below:
- he has politicised his pubs - I don't really care what he thinks about brexit, but he should keep this to his own personal opinion, not doing talks in own pubs, printing it in pubs publishing.
- the way the chain treats their workers is awful - my work mate's GF used to work in one - wouldn't recommend to anyone
- the cask beer quality is often pretty low.

 

[foxy]

Sorry but I have to ask never been to a wetherspoons or heard what the owner is like I know it's a cheap eat and budget drinks establishment but what did he do to make every one so against him

From what I can see, backed Brexit, and like the vast majority of the population voted for the Tory party in their landslide victory in the elections.

 

[Brew_DD2]

From what I can see, backed Brexit, and like the vast majority of the population voted for the Tory party in their landslide victory in the elections.

It's more that he told his staff to **** off and get a job at Tesco.

 

[foxy]

Alan Joyce did that over here, told all his staff to go and work at Woolworths or Coles. Doesn't mean to say everyone is going to boycott Qantas or Jet Star

 

[Brew_DD2]

It's not a tough ask given how ***** Wetherspoons is in the first place. Aside from the ****** cask beer and questionable business practices, I'd rather not have my beer choices decided on the basis of what the owner's political leanings are.

 

[foxy]

Well they seem to do a roaring trade must be getting something right, if he wasn't making any money there wouldn't be a Wetherspoons.

 

[Brew_DD2]

He is. It's dirt cheap for food and drink. There are plenty of businesses out there that are shady as **** and seem to do alright. Doesn't mean they'll be getting my business. You crack on though mate.

 

[Northern_Brewer]

From what I can see, backed Brexit, and like the vast majority of the population voted for the Tory party in their landslide victory in the elections.

No party has had the support of the majority of the population since 1935, the Tories got about 43% last year.

Many people had a problem with Tim Martin long before the Brexit thing. Partly because he's just a bit of an arse. Partly because he runs the equivalent of supermarket pubs - they tend to lack atmosphere and trained staff, they screw their suppliers (and breweries tend to attract more emotional attachment from punters than most supermarket suppliers) and so on. Some aren't bad, they vary a lot, in some towns they are one of the few places you can get decent cask. But Tim Martin is still a bit of an arse.

 

[foxy]

He is. It's dirt cheap for food and drink. There are plenty of businesses out there that are shady as **** and seem to do alright. Doesn't mean they'll be getting my business. You crack on though mate.

I'm not telling you to drink there, plenty of people do but.

Then a lot of business owners fall into 'the bit of an arse' category but the arses make money

 

[MickDundee]

I've been into many many Wetherspoons bars over the years. I can count on 1 finger how many have kept their cask beer well. The stuff they get in on cask has gotten worse over the years too. Hardly surprising given how badly they squeeze breweries.

My local spoons used to keep their casks well, but since last autumn every pint I’ve had has tasted like wet dog!