I take my hat off to you - that made me laugh out loud! If you sat near to the pub entrance and downed a pint you could set off to the toilet immediately and be ready to p155 it out by the time you got there.
Honestly I think I'd rather see these lovely old buildings as a Weatherspoons or McDonald's etc than left to ruin or squatted. I bet a lot are listed so cant be changed too much but atleast it keeps them maintained
I'm going to echo the other comments. Wetherspoons is the pub you go to if you want to get half-way decent food and/or drink at a really low price. It is not where you go for really good food or really good drink. Most pubs are run owned by brewers and will only sell their owner's beer (actually most pubs will also have one or two 'guest beers' also). Pubs that are not tied to a brewery are called 'free houses'. The free houses are usually small stand-alone businesses. Wetherspoon is unusual in that it is a chain of free houses.
@@OneTrueScotsman Calm down dude, it's a joke, I honestly thought he would twig to it. IF he can't take a bit of gentle ribbing he better never actually visit the UK, his poor mind couldn't take it! Credit the guy with a sense of humour, eh hero?
Wetherspoons is above all “cheap & cheerful”, the tables can sometimes be a bit ‘sticky’ and the carpeting is bright & heavily patterned. Some of the actual buildings are quite beautiful & if Wetherspoons hadn’t repurposed them they would either have been left empty or perhaps demolished & repurposed. When we go there we almost always order using their online app - drinks will usually arrive at the table in 5 or 6 minutes & food is rarely longer than 8 or 10 minutes. They don’t offer fancy food, but there is a wide variety & it is of decent quality. If you do ever get across the pond, you should try and sample one - there’s bound to be one reasonably close in most parts of the country. PS/ The free refills of tea/coffee/hot chocolate are from self-service machines.
Out shopping with a friend once, we stumbled into a Wetherspoons for lunch. The carpet was sticky, the table was unwiped and it was full of all day drinkers. On the plus side I had an all day breakfast for about 8 quid which was nicely cooked and unlimited coffee to fortify me.
The local wetherspoons here is just a den of all day drinkers - guaranteed you can go at 11 am and it's the same blokes propping up the bar - they go because it's the cheapest around - and they'll still be there at 5pm.
The Wetherspoons game would totally blow tiny American minds. Put which Spoons you’re at and table number on social media and see what your friends send you via the app.
@Dirty_Hamble It was great, you could get a single fried egg, or maybe a side of sauce and nothing else. People would send the stupidest things they could
The reason why it is called JD Wetherspoons is that Wetherspoon was a teacher who told Tim Martin would not achieve anything.... it is a sarcastic revengeful dig at the teacher.J D comes from Dukes of Hazzard his favorite programme I believe
My cousin goes to his local wetherspoons every day the piss head and when he walks in they put two pints of his usual on the bar without him having to ask.
The interesting thing to me about Weatherspoons is the creative way that they name their pubs, usually with some local significance. For example in Oxford there is a pub called 'Four Candles' as it is near the school where Ronnie Barker (of Two Ronnies fame) was educated. Whenever I am in a strange town, I usually look for a 'Spoons' for lunch.
My local Spoons is a converted Church where I got married. Before it was a Spoons of course! The great benefit for real ale drinkers is that Wetherspoons has a fantastic variety of hand-pulled ales which change every week. So it's possible to try beers from small producers that you would never find in other pubs. And all at knock-down prices - the cheapest beer is £1.79 a pint with guest beers at £2.63. You'd pay at least £5 a pint for these in other pubs.
I am known in my local Spoons and another pub so well that I don't even have to ask for "the usual". They start pouring my pint when they see me walk in the door. Sad but true 🤣
Commonly referred to as Spoons, they are by far the cheapest pubs in the UK, beer/ales can be between 60% and 30% cheaper than other pubs, lagers are typically 30% cheaper, (beer quality is good) spirits are usally cheaper if you buy a double/large, example: Whisky as a single shot/measure will be the same or slightly cheaper than others, but usally they offer the 2nd shot/measure for £1 (less than half the price of first shot) extra. Their food is not great, burgers are always burnt, (pre cooked that way for delivery) the best things to eat are there pizza and curry dishes in my opinion. Spoons are very popular because of price. Wetherspoons have their own app that's easy to use, it's very useful if the bar is busy, you can order/pay from your table, then it's brought over to you.
Pubs traditionally were often owned by Brewery companies, who would control numerous in an area, but often sold their drinks in other outlets & pubs, sometimes over a wider area, even countrywide in some cases. They are called 'Tied Houses' because they are dependent on a particular brewery. Other pubs are local & independent, taking their supplies of drink from various breweries. These are known as Free Houses. There are also some that have their own brewery, usually selling craft beers etc. Such pubs attached to Brewers are known as 'Brewery Taps'. Wetherspoons are a bit corporate, not quite like the traditional pub, but usable, & they have restored & retained many good buildings.
As an older woman I can go into almost any Wetherspoons, order from the app and get no hassle. Recently went into a similar chain pub. Had to go to the bar, food was poor - watery curry, one small poppadom and one naan bread the size of a crumpet. Drink expensive and service rubbish. Only went there as there wasn't a Spoons close. Won't make that mistake again!
Most pubs in the UK are run by a chain but those called a "Free House" are independently owned and run. The latter can sell what they like, including their own or artisan beers. The pub chains dictate what brands can be sold in their individual pubs. Many of the chains that own the pubs are the big breweries themselves.
There is a certain snobbery around spoons, because it is cheap and cheerful it has the reputation of being frequented by the poor who can't afford to go somewhere better or just want to get drunk as cheaply as possible. Reality is that it offers good value for money and is frequented by lots of different people from all sorts of backgrounds
I have lunch with a friend I we both had gammon chips peas egg and a drink for about £20 and we spent the afternoon talking drinking free coffees. Witherspoon are everywhere in UK
Your pub obsession is hilarious 😆 and relatable. Get over here do a castle and pub tour of UK they’re usually close. You’ll love it and immediately understand Love ya wee vids
I don't know if it's still a thing in all wetherspoons but one of the positives beyond it being cheap, reasonable quality is they don't have music, just a TV with the sound off except for football events, it makes it a good place to have an okay meal with alcohol if you want to be able to talk with whoever you've gone out with.
Yeah true, kinda funny that in the US, places for beers (i.e. bars) and for breakfast are mutually exclusive. In Europe (even more so than in the UK), they’re usually the same place. Lots of bars open at 7-8am. You go there in the morning for coffee and breakfast before work, and go to the same bar in the evening for beers after work. Specialised breakfast cafes do exist, but more the sort of place you go to sit down and treat yourself in the weekend. For your day-to-day rush hour breakfast needs, you go to your local bar. Cheap and easy. Well at least in spain. But pretty much in all of europe, most breakfast places serve alcohol.
I actually put a rare Dislike on this video. Why? Because the video you watched was a guy trying to be a comedian and failed offending me, everyone and most of all, Weatherspoons. You totally got the wrong impression of Weatherspoons.
That is exactly what I thought - why is he being so disrespectful and trying to make fun of Spoons. It is an OK pub/restaurant and I have never had bad food there. Not cordon bleu, but good for a quick meal.
You can get a nice latte and breakfast and evening meal at spoons. Just standard pub food. It is open for people to go for a few bevvys (alcoholic drinks) and food when you finish work at 5pm, put also open for you to go for a few bevvys and food if you finish work after night shifts in the morning, which many people take advantage of, one of my friends works nights and she goes there most mornings and has a few beers and then goes home to sleep, she meets the same people in there most mornings, she’s one of the faces. The last time I went to a weatherspoons was in Blackpool on a beach day out earlier this year. I can’t remember the last time I went to one of my local weatherspoons though. The one I pass a lot is always busy though.
13:30 as an American who frequently a few Spoons in 2019, you can also order on your phone. There was usually a QR code at the table and a table number. Order, and put in your table number, and the food shows up. Also pay on your phone.
Definitely the McDonalds of pubs. People go because it’s cheap. The food is not good, but the portion sizes are normally quite good and it’s difficult to muck a burger and chips up too badly.
I worked in a Spoons for a few years. They tend to be clean at 9am, but 11pm it probably won’t be. They do try to keep the beer fairly well, but you do get the exception. The food is basic and fast to serve. They have a card on the kitchen wall for each dish, which tells the “cook” what each item is cooked in and for how long, i.e grill for 1.5 minutes, microwave for 1 minute etc. and even how to plate it up. When I worked there, the aim was to get the food out within 15 minutes of ordering. Not sure if it still is. We did have certain people that would barge in as you tried to unlocked the door at 9am, and some would stay for the majority of the day. Funny thing was that the 9am guys would be so desperate to get in, but have to wait at the bar while you finish hooking the doors back and stick out all the POS signs 😂
Wetherspoons vary greatly, depending where they are. They are in different buildings and usually given the names of local people who have sometimes being forgotten. My nearest in Shipley, West Yorkshire is a former Co-op furniture shop called the Sir Norman Rae. He was a Member of Parliament in the early 20th century and left a large piece of land to the town for public recreation. I usually go at lunchtime and there are just normal people out shopping and having a lunch. There was one old man who went there every day for some years, so when he died they put up a plaque in his memory, which I thought was very touching. Wetherspoons is OK if you're in a strange town and don't want to spend hours looking for somewhere to eat. I have never eaten at a Slug and Lettuce as the name puts me off. Maybe I should. I have never seen anyone drunk in a W. or come across a sticky carpet.
The difference between a pub and a restaurant, in a pub you have to get up and order at the counter, like you would to order a drink, and in a restaurant you have waiters and they come over to you to take your order. Idk if it's the same in America, but that's generally the deal here in the uk
Every wetherspoons has its own pub name. Its usually named after a local famous/historic person or place specific to the area its situated. Its not as bad as what he was suggesting. Wetherspoons attacts almost every type of person like families,, stag/hen do's, people finishing work, retired oldies and the down and outs of society. Its pretty much a small snippet of british society all under one roof😂
My local one has two floors: downstairs is for the archetypal 'Spoon's all day drinking boring old men, and upstairs normally professionals and students often working with a pint to hand.
Wetherspoons is the place the riff raff go, dreadful mostly microwaved food, I wouldn't touch it, but it's fine for those wanting a basic cheap no frills meal and a drink. As for McDonalds our local one opens fully between 6am and 12 midnight and between 12 midnight and 6am the drive through only is open, so basically 24 hour service but drive through only for 6 hours. Our local Burger King which I much prefer opens 8.00am to 9pm daily.
@@Decameron-pj ... I eat food I prepare fresh for myself, not rubbish somebody else has made from god knows what. Stop judging others by your own low standards.
@@Decameron-pj ... Nothing wrong with an occasional Burger King, I rarely eat food I don't prepare myself but when I do Burger King is my go to place, I avoid all the rest like McDonalds, KFC, Pizza places etc.
I know people who ‘work from home’. In reality they are sitting in Weatherspoon, using their laptop. Taking advantage of the free Wi-Fi and free coffee refills 🤣
Nobody outside the USA would call Wetherspoons a restaurant. It's a pub chain which incidentally sells typical pub grub. The meaning of "grub" in this context can be left as an exercise for the reader.
Spoons is an absolute staple for uni students, it’s very cheap, good value for money, and they’re usually quite spacious! In my uni town the local Spoons is basically the nexus of uni life Also the cool thing about Spoons is that because they are usually old buildings that have been converted, no 2 look the same, which is always the exciting part of going to a new Wetherspoons!
I used to work in a Wetherspoons and they buy drink that's near the end of it's shelf life before it becomes undrinkable, that way they can sell it cheaply in bulk
historically most pubs were owned by a specific brewery. the landlords were tenants. but more and more "freehouses" came about and have become the norm. Now we have a chain company that keeps prices down and does cool things like banning music so people can socialise. It was different when they first started popping up. they now have an app so you can order to your table, table service. And yes, its the mcdonalds of pubs, but its pretty good place to socialise with free coffee refills. its not a typical pub experience. some are better than others, but mostly down to the area/clientele that visit. they areusually well kept places, as good as a regular hotel lobby type of atmosphere.
Free refills of tea… “must be important to the British” Why do so many Americans think all Brits drink tea all day ritually? It’s just another option for a hot beverage.
Wetherspoons is the McDonalds of pubs in terms of its share of the market, and the mostly common interior furnishings (and yes, plates, amongst many other items), but it does not promote its own products, other than its' food menu - and even then, this often contains branded ingredients such as Cadbury's Flake... Likewise, it sells famous named brands of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks - as well as an ever-changing range of real ales and beers - all of which it is able to do cheaply owing to economies of scale, as there are currently 805 of them in 796 locations in the UK - including over 100 in London, alone! For comparison, there are 1,439 McDonald's in the UK in 1,221 locations, of which over 200 are in London - although these figures include locations such as retail parks and motorway service areas where pubs would not normally also be found...
Are other ones like there's one called Brewers Fayer I think its called, which was least owned by Whitbreads, though I don't know with minors in Wetherspoons, I dont think they're allowed in there, but at Brewers Fayer they are (like will be something about them not being allowed at the bar or which ever). In Harrogate is one (the first place to use gas street lights in the country as well) in what was formerly the Winter Gardens and did it kind of completely up compared to how it was, though a lot of its dead tatty now when you look at the corners at the edges lol (way for kind of people to visit a garden indoors etc). Sometimes in a Wetherspoonds (depending on the look of the place) will have old artworks on the walls, like is a portrait of the 1st Mayor of the Ripon City Council, ordered as such by James VI in Scotland and by then by about a year I in England, when he ordered the formation of the council and gave a proper charter to Ripon (3rd smallest city in the country, though when excluding Wales is it becomes the 2nd smallest after the City of London.
You just walk into Wetherspoons find a table look at the menu then you can either order from the app or go to the bar and order but make sure you remember your table number as the barman or barmaid will ask you for it or you put it into the app. The food is very nice. Wetherspoons serves breakfast. I have never had wrong food put in front of me. There are other chains like Greene King which is similar to a Wetherspoons there are differences which you will see when visiting them.
There is a Wetherspoons near me called the Coronation Hall (or Corrie Hall to regulars) that used to be the local synagog. It even has its original, beautiful stained glass Star of David on the front. So repurposing buildings is totally a thing.
Wetherspoons is pretty much the basic pub chain of the UK. During the day they are normal pubs with passable food and drink. At nights (during the weekends) they turn into a night club which is one of my particular takes on hell.
Watch a couple of your fellow Americans hit all 16 Wetherspoons in London in a day on their channel Small Brained American posted a month ago or watch the video posted 3 weeks ago on the channel Where Are We?! where they try breakfast, dinner and drinks.
The chain made a lot of money at one time by buying csk and guest beers coming close to their use by date for a lower price then selling the Beer before it went off. they were also a place to get "Guest beers" and real ale as a consequence of this. In general you can recognise a Weatherspoons by the branding and signage, a lot will have nams of famous people like "The last Plantagenate", The Reginald Mitchell" etc. A similar pub chain that went under was the Firkin chain which included the Font and Firkin in Brighton which was a converted chapel. The Pub system in the UK runs in a particular way, there are chain pubs where the owner runs branhes like a franchaise, or directly, There are chains of pubs which are run by a Brewery which get their beer from that brewery, there are smaller places that get beer in from brewery's independently, there are some with one breweryor are attatched to a brewery.
As well as occupying old banks, cinemas etc, most Wetherspoons are named after famous local figures eg our local one is named after an opera singer from the town. And each branch has an individual style and its own unique carpet. The guy in the video is a Londonderry. Doom Bar is a much loved beer. You can now order food and drink at your table via an app. My favourite meal is the southern fried chicken with Jack Daniels bbq sauce. Yummy! Wetherspoons is very family orientated. All the TVs are muted and there's no music. All pubs in the UK serve beer, wine, spirits and soft drinks.
The beer can be 2 quid, or more a pint cheaper for the same branded beers sold in other pubs. The food gets slagged off, but it's pretty good (a 'spoons burger is better than a Maccies). I wouldn't bother asking for the usual, as I use the app and get table service. No, they're not dirty in my experience. You can get a burger, chips and a pint for about £9. Lots of old people meet for breakfast. They open at 8, but most won't serve alcohol until 10am. If your order is wrong e.g. I got a veggie breakfast, but there was only one fried egg (there should be 2). I called one of the staff and they brought me two more. At our local, between 5-7pm, that's when there's most kids in with their parent, for food.
My own local (not a 'Spoons) normally has my regular being pulled the moment I walk through the door. That's what being a regular is like in Britain. Back to 'Spoons - £1.99 for a pint that would be £5 or more anywhere else..
Wetherspoons is great. The food is fine, The fish and chips are better than most fish and chip shops and you get a beer with it. Pensioners can afford to get out and socialise in a place where they are welcome for a change. Students can leave their grimy rooms and meet their friends in an affordable place. The beer is fine and its served by pefectly competant friendly staff . The guy making this vidio is just showing off to his mates ,IThank you Tyler for looking into it more closely and not just taking this pretend Cocknies word for it. He dosent even have the accent hes trying to put on to be patronising to the working people who go there.
There are various types of pubs all across the UK. There's such as Wetherspoons which is a chain pub you most often get located on a town and city high streets where people tend to meet friends and is often used as a meeting point. It's more noisy with lots of people talking, music pumping out, people eating a cheap fish and chips etc. Then on the other end of the spectrum you have what I'm more used to, the village pub. A lot quieter, with a lot less people. Mainly used by the people who live in the village itself. They're more cosy and old world. A place to go into for a quiet pint and warm up next to a fire on a cold day. You might take your dog for a walk between your village and the next village and on the way home stop in the village pub for a pint of beer. That's a popular thing for people to do in the villages close to where I live. People might go to the village pub for a higher quality meal like pub close to where I live does a fantastic homemade steak pie. They cut all their own chips, there's no buying them frozen in a bag. The mushy peas have never seen a can. The chef uses normal peas and mashes them and adds such as mint to his own recipe. But then there's several other different types of pubs in-between.
I go to Spoons almost everyday for my lunch break, as it's a 5mins from work, I yes I can go up to the bar,nd certain staff members will know what drink to pour me I live in Nottingham, we have atleast 8 of these pubs located around Notts
Love good spoons, nice way to relax after a long day. I love the food and it's cheap which is great along with the drinks. When I was a Uni, the was a spoons in the middle of the campus (uni was in the centre of a town) and I and my friends would go to it nearly every day, either for lunch or tea and drinks. There is also an app which you can order or you can go up to the bar.
We used to go to spoons for Sunday lunch with my family. Also a place to meet yo have a few drinks (Including the famous pitchers which you shared with a straw - Vodka and Red bull) get very merry then go on to a night out clubbing after. Yes drinks are cheap, good food - vegetarian lasagna with chips was my favourite. Really sad when they closed our local spoons - rip The Skylark
I think the reason it's so popular is because it's the cheapest , my local spoons used to be a theatre and they kept the name of the theatre so its called playhouses so it's keeping a building from 1929 in use today
Yes its more like the MaccyD's of pubs - very cheap prices and very popular. There are many pub chains - often owned by breweries or big hotel/hospitality corps. Pubs can be managed privately but have difficulty accessing good drink priced supplies. A pub that isnt tied to a brewery brand is known as a Free House
wetherspoons have never got my order wrong. they sometimes just to forget the extra butter i ask for . my sister is keto and asks for loads of modifications to her meal and they always accommodate her, she loves it there
Newspaper? It's a magazine. Oh yes, and Tim is still going on about Covid in that other printed fixture of his (you know, the one with the red cover)...
When i first moved to this area last year I started going into the Weatherspoons as they stocked a couple of Thatchers Ciders I like but one day some one had brought thier kids in, no problem with that. But they weren't keeping control of them and they were loud and annoying. 2-3 of us spoke to staff but the manager refused to eject them. I now go to the Slug and Lettuce further down the high street. Another chain pub but better food, nice but quieter atmosphere and they have a 2 for 1 cocktails menu which i indulge in once a week. Also as i am temporarily disabled the staff are very helpfull. Its also more brightly decorated and not all dark wood like the Weatherspoons
I used to go to the same pub so often that if the person at the bar saw me coming they will have started pouring my drink by the I got from the door to the bar.
Wetherspoon's and GreenKing are what we call "Plastic Pubs" over here in Cambridge. They all kind of look the same and sell the same drinks in plastic cups (reusable ones, not solo cups) just so drunk people can't glass each other if they get into a fight.
Plastic cups won't protect you from puncture wounds - they could just as easily use a poppadom instead. Their naan breads are often used as repair patches for punctured tyres on HGV's
I’m not a big drinker of alcohol but I do enjoy their food. It’s probably not going to be considered the highest of quality to a lot of people but it’s (usually) hot, tasty and reasonably priced. They will usually sell it as part of a deal with a drink alcoholic / non alcoholic. One big benefit to me is that you can walk into any Wetherspoon pub and know, more or less, exactly what to expect. In ‘Spoons today I had their Chicken Jalfrezi with popadoms, a Garlic naan and a pint of Pepsi Max Cherry for £10.51 ($13.43), that price includes taxes as per usual.
To give an idea of how many there are. There is one in my smallish town, and another in the slightly bigger town 18 miles away, and another 22 miles in the opposite direction. Only one of those towns has a McDonalds.
yes you can go, and they will know what you drink, our weatherspoons opens 8am, and its the same people who are in for a drink, leave lunch time, then you may get the afternoon people in, which they, because the drink is cheap, food is cheap, is the food great no, but its not bad for the price, when you can chicken tikka massala rice and nann bread and a pint for 7 pounds, then its great, also 9am you get alot of mothers come in, to have a catch up, coffee free refils after they drop kids at school, maybe have a cheap breakfast, they do this once or twice a week, children welcome, with kids menu, colour books and stuff, you get the old timers in retired, some will have a food and few beers, might be on there own, cheaper than making a meal for one, sandwhich on the evening, they sorted, gets them out, place to start a good night, meet up before moving on,
@@paulcaswell2813 your wrong my friend, our peterlee in county durham, serves alcohol from 8am, yet billiingham another one we like, in teeside opens 8am, but does not serve alcohol until 10am, depence on their licence they have. nad yes i am sure, my wife works next door to it, and i am often having a beer 8am on a day off, i prefer the mornings, to the evenings
@@paulcaswell2813 Hi paul, i do agree the norm is around 9am to 10am for alcohol, As i said ours opened for alcohol from 8am, and to be honest, its gets pretyy busy at 8am, i have lived here in northe east, isle of wights, poole bournemouth and London, i agree with you the norm is around 9am to 10am. here in the northeast, its a drinking culture, long story, its goes back to the coal mining industry, after they closed, Im not saying every one drinks at 8am, but many regulars, do meet for beers at 8am, many are coffee breakfast, mothers meeting for coffee after they drop children at school, for chit chat
I go to my local Wetherspoons every Saturday morning at about 8.30am. The young lady behind the bar knows me by now and knows what I usually have and the number of the table where I usually sit.
I think that the comparison as "the Mackas of the pub world." is apt. If you're the kind of person who regards Mackas (McDonalds) as a restaurant then you would enjoy it, mate. They certainly aren't clean & sparkly and the two I've been to smelt rather nasty. But yeah, the cheapest pubs around - which attracts a lot of young binge drinkers etc. The food is cheap as - but processed & frozen. But no dogs allowed, kids aren't really considered, neither of the ones I went into even had gardens, let alone books & games. I too would rather go to a proper pub. How's a pub without dogs a real pub!! 😢
I would most certainly not go to *any* pub. I like country pubs with beams and interior woodwork, log fires and horse brasses or, in towns, pubs with mahogany bar tops and panelling, stained glass and mirrors. I would rather go to a Wetherspoon's than a sports bar or a pub with huge widescreens mounted on the walls showing football etc. or loud music (of any type). You can have a conversation in Wetherspoon's and hear what your friends are saying.
British Pubs are traditionally owned by either brewery companies, or owner operated. Brewery chain pubs are run by an appointed manager and sell the brewery drinks. An owner run pub may be also known as a "Freehouse" when it is not tied to a specific brewery.
Wetherspoons is named after one of Tim Martin’s former teachers. It was a sort of joke as he described Mr Wetherspoon as the least likely person to run a pub.
Many local pubs in the old days would have your own tankard hung up behind the bar for you to drink your "usual" from.. these tankards were engraved with your name or maybe a fancy pattern... You would usually buy your own tankard and ask the bar man/lady to put it behind the bar ready for the next pint on your return
There are about 900 Spoons around the country. They are great for standardised cheap food and drink - but certainly not a quality gastronomic experience. Because of the size and city centre locations of the establishments you are less likely to be recognised as a regular who can just waltz in and ask for their 'usual' than you would be in a proper local pub. 'Do they have a problem with people who never leave?' Unlike US establishments, they expect you to be settle in for the evening, not rushed through a meal so the table can be realocated.
Not all Wetherspoons open as late as 9 O'clock in the morning. Found one in a small town in Lincolnshire that opened at 7 in the morning for breakfasts. Think they only started selling beer etc......a little later? Their usual beers are mostly the poor quality, popular chemical lagers but they do occasionally have decent guest ales at very good prices. Trouble is, they're usually close to their "sell by date", which is why they're cheap..
The food is fair the price is affordable, the wine and beer choice is very good. Good service, reliable choice of food and extra's. Plenty of space and comfort, affordable for familes and meeting up with friends. Adds a couple more days on your holiday stay budget for affordability. Where ever I go I never feel ripped of by Wetherspoon.
if anyone is like Tyler and doesn’t know how beer can be bad it’s mainly an issue with draft beer because you need to store and pour pints of draft beers the correct way for the beer to be served as intended, it’s not as much of an issue with bottles or cans so I would suggest getting a bottled beer over a Guinness if you are doubting the establishments quality, also sure everyone knows this but spoons has an app you can order to your table via that
I went to a Wetherspoons in Richmond, North Yorkshire and found the toilets were actually on the Isle of Skye.
I take my hat off to you - that made me laugh out loud!
If you sat near to the pub entrance and downed a pint you could set off to the toilet immediately and be ready to p155
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I went to the toilet one new years and got back in time for the following new year
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Wetherspoons is more like the McDonald's of pubs. The buildings are nice, drinks are very cheap. The food is a bit rubbish but fine for the price.
waa the ultimate burger is yummy, tho it depends on what staff is cooking that day depends if there shit or not
@@peteramaranth85 its all frozen shyte or from the microwave
Honestly I think I'd rather see these lovely old buildings as a Weatherspoons or McDonald's etc than left to ruin or squatted. I bet a lot are listed so cant be changed too much but atleast it keeps them maintained
The food is a bit rubbish?! I've worked in two W kitchens, and I made the best fish and chips. I'd backhand you if you complained...
@sunseeker9581 Nothing wrong with freezing meat, you're obviously defrosting it wrong! 😂
I'm going to echo the other comments. Wetherspoons is the pub you go to if you want to get half-way decent food and/or drink at a really low price. It is not where you go for really good food or really good drink.
Most pubs are run owned by brewers and will only sell their owner's beer (actually most pubs will also have one or two 'guest beers' also). Pubs that are not tied to a brewery are called 'free houses'. The free houses are usually small stand-alone businesses. Wetherspoon is unusual in that it is a chain of free houses.
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If only my back would agree with that I would say the same lol
Tyler displaying the high quality of American education there with his dazzlingly accurate maths skills....
@@OneTrueScotsman Calm down dude, it's a joke, I honestly thought he would twig to it. IF he can't take a bit of gentle ribbing he better never actually visit the UK, his poor mind couldn't take it!
Credit the guy with a sense of humour, eh hero?
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Oh but there is, as vaccination to encourage better health is always a good thing
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Wetherspoons is above all “cheap & cheerful”, the tables can sometimes be a bit ‘sticky’ and the carpeting is bright & heavily patterned. Some of the actual buildings are quite beautiful & if Wetherspoons hadn’t repurposed them they would either have been left empty or perhaps demolished & repurposed. When we go there we almost always order using their online app - drinks will usually arrive at the table in 5 or 6 minutes & food is rarely longer than 8 or 10 minutes. They don’t offer fancy food, but there is a wide variety & it is of decent quality. If you do ever get across the pond, you should try and sample one - there’s bound to be one reasonably close in most parts of the country. PS/ The free refills of tea/coffee/hot chocolate are from self-service machines.
"1979? So, 25 years?" thank you for being as outraged at the passing of time as I am!
Out shopping with a friend once, we stumbled into a Wetherspoons for lunch. The carpet was sticky, the table was unwiped and it was full of all day drinkers. On the plus side I had an all day breakfast for about 8 quid which was nicely cooked and unlimited coffee to fortify me.
Please pardon my comment but to your "fortify" will be Tyler's 'twentyfy' 😅😂?!!
Being a chain, I'm sure it varies from place to place but the nearest one to us is nothing like that (thankfully!).
The local wetherspoons here is just a den of all day drinkers - guaranteed you can go at 11 am and it's the same blokes propping up the bar - they go because it's the cheapest around - and they'll still be there at 5pm.
The Wetherspoons game would totally blow tiny American minds. Put which Spoons you’re at and table number on social media and see what your friends send you via the app.
What are the best and worst examples?
@Dirty_Hamble It was great, you could get a single fried egg, or maybe a side of sauce and nothing else. People would send the stupidest things they could
🤣Founded in 1979 so it's been going for 25 years. What. I think Tyler needs a maths lesson🤣
The American education system failed this man.
Perhaps Tyler hasn't the right amount of fingers (& / or thumbs) upon which to count ..?!
Even tells you on the right hand side, 44 years. Then skims past history and tells you where the name comes from. Terrible.
Yeah because it's 45 years if it was 1979 when they opened.
The reason why it is called JD Wetherspoons is that Wetherspoon was a teacher who told Tim Martin would not achieve anything.... it is a sarcastic revengeful dig at the teacher.J D comes from Dukes of Hazzard his favorite programme I believe
The building preservation aspect is cool I have to admit. We don't really have any historic buildings in Murica but we are experts in terrible food.
Formed in 1979 that makes it 45years old. Locally known as Spoons or Wethers, depending which part of the country it is
It is pronounced 'wet her spoons'!
My cousin goes to his local wetherspoons every day the piss head and when he walks in they put two pints of his usual on the bar without him having to ask.
Is he on benefits by any chance? 😂
@@c_n_b No mate he's the manager of a betting shop.
@raylaye2884 ... I'm sure it still happens in some pubs, but it used to happen often in many pubs years ago where they had regular known customers.
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The interesting thing to me about Weatherspoons is the creative way that they name their pubs, usually with some local significance. For example in Oxford there is a pub called 'Four Candles' as it is near the school where Ronnie Barker (of Two Ronnies fame) was educated. Whenever I am in a strange town, I usually look for a 'Spoons' for lunch.
All the carpets are different, so with links to the area
My local Spoons is a converted Church where I got married. Before it was a Spoons of course! The great benefit for real ale drinkers is that Wetherspoons has a fantastic variety of hand-pulled ales which change every week. So it's possible to try beers from small producers that you would never find in other pubs. And all at knock-down prices - the cheapest beer is £1.79 a pint with guest beers at £2.63. You'd pay at least £5 a pint for these in other pubs.
I went down the other route, actually got married in a pub which has now closed down! So has the marriage, fortunately. Haha!!
£1.79? Do you really count Ruddles as a beer???
I am known in my local Spoons and another pub so well that I don't even have to ask for "the usual". They start pouring my pint when they see me walk in the door. Sad but true 🤣
Americans have never heard of it because it's in the UK!! And Americans don't know much outside of the us!!
Commonly referred to as Spoons, they are by far the cheapest pubs in the UK, beer/ales can be between 60% and 30% cheaper than other pubs, lagers are typically 30% cheaper, (beer quality is good) spirits are usally cheaper if you buy a double/large, example: Whisky as a single shot/measure will be the same or slightly cheaper than others, but usally they offer the 2nd shot/measure for £1 (less than half the price of first shot) extra. Their food is not great, burgers are always burnt, (pre cooked that way for delivery) the best things to eat are there pizza and curry dishes in my opinion. Spoons are very popular because of price. Wetherspoons have their own app that's easy to use, it's very useful if the bar is busy, you can order/pay from your table, then it's brought over to you.
Pubs traditionally were often owned by Brewery companies, who would control numerous in an area, but often sold their drinks in other outlets & pubs, sometimes over a wider area, even countrywide in some cases. They are called 'Tied Houses' because they are dependent on a particular brewery. Other pubs are local & independent, taking their supplies of drink from various breweries. These are known as Free Houses. There are also some that have their own brewery, usually selling craft beers etc. Such pubs attached to Brewers are known as 'Brewery Taps'. Wetherspoons are a bit corporate, not quite like the traditional pub, but usable, & they have restored & retained many good buildings.
The wetherspoons in Tunbridge Wells is a converted opera house. Kind an interesting one to visit.
There's a theatre in Cardiff. One can have a beer 'in the Gods' if one wishes!
As an older woman I can go into almost any Wetherspoons, order from the app and get no hassle. Recently went into a similar chain pub. Had to go to the bar, food was poor - watery curry, one small poppadom and one naan bread the size of a crumpet. Drink expensive and service rubbish. Only went there as there wasn't a Spoons close. Won't make that mistake again!
Most pubs in the UK are run by a chain but those called a "Free House" are independently owned and run. The latter can sell what they like, including their own or artisan beers. The pub chains dictate what brands can be sold in their individual pubs. Many of the chains that own the pubs are the big breweries themselves.
There is a certain snobbery around spoons, because it is cheap and cheerful it has the reputation of being frequented by the poor who can't afford to go somewhere better or just want to get drunk as cheaply as possible.
Reality is that it offers good value for money and is frequented by lots of different people from all sorts of backgrounds
to true that comment made me lose my temper but you like flatt beer by all means go to mr geezer home land spew
I have lunch with a friend I we both had gammon chips peas egg and a drink for about £20 and we spent the afternoon talking drinking free coffees. Witherspoon are everywhere in UK
Your pub obsession is hilarious 😆 and relatable. Get over here do a castle and pub tour of UK they’re usually close. You’ll love it and immediately understand Love ya wee vids
Usually the toilets are up a mount Everest of stairs,just the thing you need after a few pints,carido workout...and sticky carpets anyone 😂
AT LEAST THERE CLEAN not swimming in smackdeads like mr geezer said melt
I don't know if it's still a thing in all wetherspoons but one of the positives beyond it being cheap, reasonable quality is they don't have music, just a TV with the sound off except for football events, it makes it a good place to have an okay meal with alcohol if you want to be able to talk with whoever you've gone out with.
Yeah true, kinda funny that in the US, places for beers (i.e. bars) and for breakfast are mutually exclusive.
In Europe (even more so than in the UK), they’re usually the same place. Lots of bars open at 7-8am. You go there in the morning for coffee and breakfast before work, and go to the same bar in the evening for beers after work.
Specialised breakfast cafes do exist, but more the sort of place you go to sit down and treat yourself in the weekend.
For your day-to-day rush hour breakfast needs, you go to your local bar. Cheap and easy.
Well at least in spain. But pretty much in all of europe, most breakfast places serve alcohol.
Kids go to mcdonalds adults go to wetherspoons. Both are cheap. Owner is a dick in my humble opinion.
I actually put a rare Dislike on this video. Why? Because the video you watched was a guy trying to be a comedian and failed offending me, everyone and most of all, Weatherspoons. You totally got the wrong impression of Weatherspoons.
That is exactly what I thought - why is he being so disrespectful and trying to make fun of Spoons. It is an OK pub/restaurant and I have never had bad food there. Not cordon bleu, but good for a quick meal.
You can get a nice latte and breakfast and evening meal at spoons. Just standard pub food. It is open for people to go for a few bevvys (alcoholic drinks) and food when you finish work at 5pm, put also open for you to go for a few bevvys and food if you finish work after night shifts in the morning, which many people take advantage of, one of my friends works nights and she goes there most mornings and has a few beers and then goes home to sleep, she meets the same people in there most mornings, she’s one of the faces. The last time I went to a weatherspoons was in Blackpool on a beach day out earlier this year. I can’t remember the last time I went to one of my local weatherspoons though. The one I pass a lot is always busy though.
13:30 as an American who frequently a few Spoons in 2019, you can also order on your phone. There was usually a QR code at the table and a table number. Order, and put in your table number, and the food shows up. Also pay on your phone.
Definitely the McDonalds of pubs. People go because it’s cheap. The food is not good, but the portion sizes are normally quite good and it’s difficult to muck a burger and chips up too badly.
I worked in a Spoons for a few years. They tend to be clean at 9am, but 11pm it probably won’t be. They do try to keep the beer fairly well, but you do get the exception. The food is basic and fast to serve. They have a card on the kitchen wall for each dish, which tells the “cook” what each item is cooked in and for how long, i.e grill for 1.5 minutes, microwave for 1 minute etc. and even how to plate it up. When I worked there, the aim was to get the food out within 15 minutes of ordering. Not sure if it still is.
We did have certain people that would barge in as you tried to unlocked the door at 9am, and some would stay for the majority of the day. Funny thing was that the 9am guys would be so desperate to get in, but have to wait at the bar while you finish hooking the doors back and stick out all the POS signs 😂
Wetherspoons vary greatly, depending where they are. They are in different buildings and usually given the names of local people who have sometimes being forgotten. My nearest in Shipley, West Yorkshire is a former Co-op furniture shop called the Sir Norman Rae. He was a Member of Parliament in the early 20th century and left a large piece of land to the town for public recreation. I usually go at lunchtime and there are just normal people out shopping and having a lunch. There was one old man who went there every day for some years, so when he died they put up a plaque in his memory, which I thought was very touching. Wetherspoons is OK if you're in a strange town and don't want to spend hours looking for somewhere to eat. I have never eaten at a Slug and Lettuce as the name puts me off. Maybe I should. I have never seen anyone drunk in a W. or come across a sticky carpet.
The difference between a pub and a restaurant, in a pub you have to get up and order at the counter, like you would to order a drink, and in a restaurant you have waiters and they come over to you to take your order. Idk if it's the same in America, but that's generally the deal here in the uk
Every wetherspoons has its own pub name. Its usually named after a local famous/historic person or place specific to the area its situated.
Its not as bad as what he was suggesting. Wetherspoons attacts almost every type of person like families,, stag/hen do's, people finishing work, retired oldies and the down and outs of society. Its pretty much a small snippet of british society all under one roof😂
My local one has two floors: downstairs is for the archetypal 'Spoon's all day drinking boring old men, and upstairs normally professionals and students often working with a pint to hand.
Wetherspoons is the place the riff raff go, dreadful mostly microwaved food, I wouldn't touch it, but it's fine for those wanting a basic cheap no frills meal and a drink. As for McDonalds our local one opens fully between 6am and 12 midnight and between 12 midnight and 6am the drive through only is open, so basically 24 hour service but drive through only for 6 hours. Our local Burger King which I much prefer opens 8.00am to 9pm daily.
So you would prefer to eat from polystyrene rather than plates and eat carbs rather than vegetables and you think the others are riff raff???
@@Decameron-pj ... I eat food I prepare fresh for myself, not rubbish somebody else has made from god knows what. Stop judging others by your own low standards.
@@martinwebb1681 I eat food I prepare for myself. I’m just surprised you eat at Burger King
@@Decameron-pj ... Nothing wrong with an occasional Burger King, I rarely eat food I don't prepare myself but when I do Burger King is my go to place, I avoid all the rest like McDonalds, KFC, Pizza places etc.
I know people who ‘work from home’.
In reality they are sitting in Weatherspoon, using their laptop.
Taking advantage of the free Wi-Fi and free coffee refills 🤣
Nobody outside the USA would call Wetherspoons a restaurant. It's a pub chain which incidentally sells typical pub grub. The meaning of "grub" in this context can be left as an exercise for the reader.
wetherspoons, is basically like hooters or applebee's in the USA
Wetherspoons is the place you go for a drink or two , before you go on to somewhere nice lol
Spoons is an absolute staple for uni students, it’s very cheap, good value for money, and they’re usually quite spacious!
In my uni town the local Spoons is basically the nexus of uni life
Also the cool thing about Spoons is that because they are usually old buildings that have been converted, no 2 look the same, which is always the exciting part of going to a new Wetherspoons!
Surely the Union Bar is still cheaper than 'Spoon's'... And one doesn't have to find one's way back to campus after getting paralytic!
I used to work in a Wetherspoons and they buy drink that's near the end of it's shelf life before it becomes undrinkable, that way they can sell it cheaply in bulk
historically most pubs were owned by a specific brewery. the landlords were tenants. but more and more "freehouses" came about and have become the norm. Now we have a chain company that keeps prices down and does cool things like banning music so people can socialise. It was different when they first started popping up. they now have an app so you can order to your table, table service. And yes, its the mcdonalds of pubs, but its pretty good place to socialise with free coffee refills. its not a typical pub experience. some are better than others, but mostly down to the area/clientele that visit. they areusually well kept places, as good as a regular hotel lobby type of atmosphere.
Free refills of tea… “must be important to the British”
Why do so many Americans think all Brits drink tea all day ritually? It’s just another option for a hot beverage.
Wetherspoons is the McDonalds of pubs in terms of its share of the market, and the mostly common interior furnishings (and yes, plates, amongst many other items), but it does not promote its own products, other than its' food menu - and even then, this often contains branded ingredients such as Cadbury's Flake... Likewise, it sells famous named brands of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks - as well as an ever-changing range of real ales and beers - all of which it is able to do cheaply owing to economies of scale, as there are currently 805 of them in 796 locations in the UK - including over 100 in London, alone! For comparison, there are 1,439 McDonald's in the UK in 1,221 locations, of which over 200 are in London - although these figures include locations such as retail parks and motorway service areas where pubs would not normally also be found...
Are other ones like there's one called Brewers Fayer I think its called, which was least owned by Whitbreads, though I don't know with minors in Wetherspoons, I dont think they're allowed in there, but at Brewers Fayer they are (like will be something about them not being allowed at the bar or which ever).
In Harrogate is one (the first place to use gas street lights in the country as well) in what was formerly the Winter Gardens and did it kind of completely up compared to how it was, though a lot of its dead tatty now when you look at the corners at the edges lol (way for kind of people to visit a garden indoors etc).
Sometimes in a Wetherspoonds (depending on the look of the place) will have old artworks on the walls, like is a portrait of the 1st Mayor of the Ripon City Council, ordered as such by James VI in Scotland and by then by about a year I in England, when he ordered the formation of the council and gave a proper charter to Ripon (3rd smallest city in the country, though when excluding Wales is it becomes the 2nd smallest after the City of London.
You just walk into Wetherspoons find a table look at the menu then you can either order from the app or go to the bar and order but make sure you remember your table number as the barman or barmaid will ask you for it or you put it into the app. The food is very nice. Wetherspoons serves breakfast. I have never had wrong food put in front of me. There are other chains like Greene King which is similar to a Wetherspoons there are differences which you will see when visiting them.
There is a Wetherspoons near me called the Coronation Hall (or Corrie Hall to regulars) that used to be the local synagog. It even has its original, beautiful stained glass Star of David on the front. So repurposing buildings is totally a thing.
I once got lost in Spoons for nearly 3 weeks. Damn those toilets were a trek! 😂
Wetherspoons is pretty much the basic pub chain of the UK. During the day they are normal pubs with passable food and drink. At nights (during the weekends) they turn into a night club which is one of my particular takes on hell.
Watch a couple of your fellow Americans hit all 16 Wetherspoons in London in a day on their channel Small Brained American posted a month ago or watch the video posted 3 weeks ago on the channel Where Are We?! where they try breakfast, dinner and drinks.
The chain made a lot of money at one time by buying csk and guest beers coming close to their use by date for a lower price then selling the Beer before it went off. they were also a place to get "Guest beers" and real ale as a consequence of this. In general you can recognise a Weatherspoons by the branding and signage, a lot will have nams of famous people like "The last Plantagenate", The Reginald Mitchell" etc. A similar pub chain that went under was the Firkin chain which included the Font and Firkin in Brighton which was a converted chapel.
The Pub system in the UK runs in a particular way, there are chain pubs where the owner runs branhes like a franchaise, or directly, There are chains of pubs which are run by a Brewery which get their beer from that brewery, there are smaller places that get beer in from brewery's independently, there are some with one breweryor are attatched to a brewery.
8:00 Think it was the owner's teacher's name, who thought he would never amount to much 😂
As well as occupying old banks, cinemas etc, most Wetherspoons are named after famous local figures eg our local one is named after an opera singer from the town. And each branch has an individual style and its own unique carpet.
The guy in the video is a Londonderry. Doom Bar is a much loved beer.
You can now order food and drink at your table via an app.
My favourite meal is the southern fried chicken with Jack Daniels bbq sauce. Yummy!
Wetherspoons is very family orientated. All the TVs are muted and there's no music.
All pubs in the UK serve beer, wine, spirits and soft drinks.
The beer can be 2 quid, or more a pint cheaper for the same branded beers sold in other pubs. The food gets slagged off, but it's pretty good (a 'spoons burger is better than a Maccies). I wouldn't bother asking for the usual, as I use the app and get table service. No, they're not dirty in my experience. You can get a burger, chips and a pint for about £9. Lots of old people meet for breakfast. They open at 8, but most won't serve alcohol until 10am. If your order is wrong e.g. I got a veggie breakfast, but there was only one fried egg (there should be 2). I called one of the staff and they brought me two more. At our local, between 5-7pm, that's when there's most kids in with their parent, for food.
My own local (not a 'Spoons) normally has my regular being pulled the moment I walk through the door. That's what being a regular is like in Britain. Back to 'Spoons - £1.99 for a pint that would be £5 or more anywhere else..
Wetherspoons is great. The food is fine, The fish and chips are better than most fish and chip shops and you get a beer with it. Pensioners can afford to get out and socialise in a place where they are welcome for a change. Students can leave their grimy rooms and meet their friends in an affordable place. The beer is fine and its served by pefectly competant friendly staff . The guy making this vidio is just showing off to his mates ,IThank you Tyler for looking into it more closely and not just taking this pretend Cocknies word for it. He dosent even have the accent hes trying to put on to be patronising to the working people who go there.
There are various types of pubs all across the UK.
There's such as Wetherspoons which is a chain pub you most often get located on a town and city high streets where people tend to meet friends and is often used as a meeting point. It's more noisy with lots of people talking, music pumping out, people eating a cheap fish and chips etc.
Then on the other end of the spectrum you have what I'm more used to, the village pub. A lot quieter, with a lot less people. Mainly used by the people who live in the village itself. They're more cosy and old world. A place to go into for a quiet pint and warm up next to a fire on a cold day. You might take your dog for a walk between your village and the next village and on the way home stop in the village pub for a pint of beer. That's a popular thing for people to do in the villages close to where I live. People might go to the village pub for a higher quality meal like pub close to where I live does a fantastic homemade steak pie. They cut all their own chips, there's no buying them frozen in a bag. The mushy peas have never seen a can. The chef uses normal peas and mashes them and adds such as mint to his own recipe.
But then there's several other different types of pubs in-between.
There's no music at Wetherspoons pubs.
And 'normal' peas are not mashed to make mushy peas. Mushy peas are made from marrowfat peas.
I go to Spoons almost everyday for my lunch break, as it's a 5mins from work, I yes I can go up to the bar,nd certain staff members will know what drink to pour me
I live in Nottingham, we have atleast 8 of these pubs located around Notts
Love good spoons, nice way to relax after a long day. I love the food and it's cheap which is great along with the drinks. When I was a Uni, the was a spoons in the middle of the campus (uni was in the centre of a town) and I and my friends would go to it nearly every day, either for lunch or tea and drinks. There is also an app which you can order or you can go up to the bar.
We used to go to spoons for Sunday lunch with my family. Also a place to meet yo have a few drinks (Including the famous pitchers which you shared with a straw - Vodka and Red bull) get very merry then go on to a night out clubbing after. Yes drinks are cheap, good food - vegetarian lasagna with chips was my favourite. Really sad when they closed our local spoons - rip The Skylark
I think the reason it's so popular is because it's the cheapest , my local spoons used to be a theatre and they kept the name of the theatre so its called playhouses so it's keeping a building from 1929 in use today
I love the way they adapt older buildings, and name them after local well known folk or places.
Cheap: typically three pints at 'Spoon's for the same price as one in a normal pub.
When i walk in my local wetherspoons they start pouring my usual straight away when they see me arrive
Yes its more like the MaccyD's of pubs - very cheap prices and very popular. There are many pub chains - often owned by breweries or big hotel/hospitality corps. Pubs can be managed privately but have difficulty accessing good drink priced supplies. A pub that isnt tied to a brewery brand is known as a Free House
wetherspoons have never got my order wrong. they sometimes just to forget the extra butter i ask for . my sister is keto and asks for loads of modifications to her meal and they always accommodate her, she loves it there
whetherspoons actually has its own newspaper which is often cited as the most read printed newspaper in the UK
Newspaper? It's a magazine. Oh yes, and Tim is still going on about Covid in that other printed fixture of his (you know, the one with the red cover)...
Airport livesaver. If you get there in time, you can get breakfast before a flight. There are other options, but this one is good.
When i first moved to this area last year I started going into the Weatherspoons as they stocked a couple of Thatchers Ciders I like but one day some one had brought thier kids in, no problem with that. But they weren't keeping control of them and they were loud and annoying. 2-3 of us spoke to staff but the manager refused to eject them. I now go to the Slug and Lettuce further down the high street. Another chain pub but better food, nice but quieter atmosphere and they have a 2 for 1 cocktails menu which i indulge in once a week. Also as i am temporarily disabled the staff are very helpfull. Its also more brightly decorated and not all dark wood like the Weatherspoons
Wouldn't go to a Wetherspoons if you paid me!
Indeed. Owned by a piece of garbage.
dont then you loss
I used to go to the same pub so often that if the person at the bar saw me coming they will have started pouring my drink by the I got from the door to the bar.
Wetherspoon's and GreenKing are what we call "Plastic Pubs" over here in Cambridge. They all kind of look the same and sell the same drinks in plastic cups (reusable ones, not solo cups) just so drunk people can't glass each other if they get into a fight.
Plastic cups won't protect you from puncture wounds - they could just as easily use a poppadom instead.
Their naan breads are often used as repair patches for punctured tyres on HGV's
Ive been to 8 different spoons and have never had a plastic cup. cambridge must be rough as fuck 😂😂
JD comes from the Dukes of Hazard and Wetherspooons is the name of his favourite teacher
I was born in 79 so thanks I'm 25 again cheers lol
I’m not a big drinker of alcohol but I do enjoy their food.
It’s probably not going to be considered the highest of quality to a lot of people but it’s (usually) hot, tasty and reasonably priced. They will usually sell it as part of a deal with a drink alcoholic / non alcoholic.
One big benefit to me is that you can walk into any Wetherspoon pub and know, more or less, exactly what to expect.
In ‘Spoons today I had their Chicken Jalfrezi with popadoms, a Garlic naan and a pint of Pepsi Max Cherry for £10.51 ($13.43), that price includes taxes as per usual.
To give an idea of how many there are. There is one in my smallish town, and another in the slightly bigger town 18 miles away, and another 22 miles in the opposite direction. Only one of those towns has a McDonalds.
yes you can go, and they will know what you drink, our weatherspoons opens 8am, and its the same people who are in for a drink, leave lunch time, then you may get the afternoon people in, which they, because the drink is cheap, food is cheap, is the food great no, but its not bad for the price, when you can chicken tikka massala rice and nann bread and a pint for 7 pounds, then its great, also 9am you get alot of mothers come in, to have a catch up, coffee free refils after they drop kids at school, maybe have a cheap breakfast, they do this once or twice a week, children welcome, with kids menu, colour books and stuff, you get the old timers in retired, some will have a food and few beers, might be on there own, cheaper than making a meal for one, sandwhich on the evening, they sorted, gets them out, place to start a good night, meet up before moving on,
Between 8 and 9am they only serve hot or soft drinks (plus food of course). The alcohol licence does't kick in 'til 9...
@@paulcaswell2813 your wrong my friend, our peterlee in county durham, serves alcohol from 8am, yet billiingham another one we like, in teeside opens 8am, but does not serve alcohol until 10am, depence on their licence they have. nad yes i am sure, my wife works next door to it, and i am often having a beer 8am on a day off, i prefer the mornings, to the evenings
@@seanmc1351 in the Midlands Spoons don't serve alcohol 'to 9 at any rate...
@@paulcaswell2813 Hi paul, i do agree the norm is around 9am to 10am for alcohol, As i said ours opened for alcohol from 8am, and to be honest, its gets pretyy busy at 8am, i have lived here in northe east, isle of wights, poole bournemouth and London, i agree with you the norm is around 9am to 10am. here in the northeast, its a drinking culture, long story, its goes back to the coal mining industry, after they closed, Im not saying every one drinks at 8am, but many regulars, do meet for beers at 8am, many are coffee breakfast, mothers meeting for coffee after they drop children at school, for chit chat
I enjoy going to spoons with our lass for a decent meal and some ale! pub is nice too!
What year do you think in is right now?
1979 was 45 years ago not 25.
0:49 Yes it’s like the McDonalds of pubs, cheap food and drinks
The Brewery’s used to control the majority the pubs
At the end of the bar he asks for doombar beer and quavers crisps
I go to my local Wetherspoons every Saturday morning at about 8.30am. The young lady behind the bar knows me by now and knows what I usually have and the number of the table where I usually sit.
TGI Friday's is th3 closest thing I can remember in the usa to compare to this place 😅
Its definitely a big hit with the local street drinking community, honestly, i would rather go to a real pub,any pub.
I think that the comparison as "the Mackas of the pub world." is apt. If you're the kind of person who regards Mackas (McDonalds) as a restaurant then you would enjoy it, mate. They certainly aren't clean & sparkly and the two I've been to smelt rather nasty. But yeah, the cheapest pubs around - which attracts a lot of young binge drinkers etc. The food is cheap as - but processed & frozen.
But no dogs allowed, kids aren't really considered, neither of the ones I went into even had gardens, let alone books & games. I too would rather go to a proper pub. How's a pub without dogs a real pub!! 😢
I would most certainly not go to *any* pub. I like country pubs with beams and interior woodwork, log fires and horse brasses or, in towns, pubs with mahogany bar tops and panelling, stained glass and mirrors.
I would rather go to a Wetherspoon's than a sports bar or a pub with huge widescreens mounted on the walls showing football etc. or loud music (of any type). You can have a conversation in Wetherspoon's and hear what your friends are saying.
and yes people do stay in the pub all day opening to closing. usually the elderly all with their mates
British Pubs are traditionally owned by either brewery companies, or owner operated. Brewery chain pubs are run by an appointed manager and sell the brewery drinks. An owner run pub may be also known as a "Freehouse" when it is not tied to a specific brewery.
Every Wetherspoons ('Spoons) Carpet is different in each pub ... some 'Spoons have small hotel rooms above the pub
I like being able to order through the app and have everything brought to your table
Wetherspoons is named after one of Tim Martin’s former teachers. It was a sort of joke as he described Mr Wetherspoon as the least likely person to run a pub.
Many local pubs in the old days would have your own tankard hung up behind the bar for you to drink your "usual" from.. these tankards were engraved with your name or maybe a fancy pattern... You would usually buy your own tankard and ask the bar man/lady to put it behind the bar ready for the next pint on your return
I had my own tankard hung up in my local back in the 80s, and if the landlady saw me on my way in, my pint would be there on the bar straight away. 🍺😊
Tim Martin called it that as the JD came from JD boss Hogg from dukes of hazard and weatherspoon after a teacher that said he wouldn't get anywhere
There are about 900 Spoons around the country.
They are great for standardised cheap food and drink - but certainly not a quality gastronomic experience.
Because of the size and city centre locations of the establishments you are less likely to be recognised as a regular who can just waltz in and ask for their 'usual' than you would be in a proper local pub.
'Do they have a problem with people who never leave?' Unlike US establishments, they expect you to be settle in for the evening, not rushed through a meal so the table can be realocated.
Not all Wetherspoons open as late as 9 O'clock in the morning. Found one in a small town in Lincolnshire that opened at 7 in the morning for breakfasts. Think they only started selling beer etc......a little later? Their usual beers are mostly the poor quality, popular chemical lagers but they do occasionally have decent guest ales at very good prices. Trouble is, they're usually close to their "sell by date", which is why they're cheap..
Was this video filmed in the 90's?😂 1979 is over 40 years ago mucker..
It's a scheduled upload that was uploaded in the 90s
Greene King is the largest chain of pubs in UK. Founded near where I live in 1790's.
The food is fair the price is affordable, the wine and beer choice is very good. Good service, reliable choice of food and extra's. Plenty of space and comfort, affordable for familes and meeting up with friends. Adds a couple more days on your holiday stay budget for affordability. Where ever I go I never feel ripped of by Wetherspoon.
if anyone is like Tyler and doesn’t know how beer can be bad it’s mainly an issue with draft beer because you need to store and pour pints of draft beers the correct way for the beer to be served as intended, it’s not as much of an issue with bottles or cans so I would suggest getting a bottled beer over a Guinness if you are doubting the establishments quality, also sure everyone knows this but spoons has an app you can order to your table via that
Many weather spoons open at 8am for breakfast.