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Dropped into the spoons for a credit crunch special, 3 of us, fish and chips, slightly overdone white fish of some description, edible enough. But my god the portions are tiny!. Honestly I reckon the overall size of the meal would be equivalent to a kids meal 10 years ago. The fish was small but there was so few chips I nearly laughed. Its obviously a way of not raising prices but c'mon, people wont fall for that. Tuborg beer is nice though at £2.05 a pint 
alman said:
Gourmet beef burger: burger, blue cheese sauce, bacon, onion rings, token salad and chips with a pint of ale. £6, can't go wrong man!
this.very filling. the cheese stinks, but tastes great. It's good value depending on what drink you get. at my local its £2.60 for a guiness. so to have that free + £3.40 for some nice burger/chips isn't too bad.
silverthorn2151 said:
I have been back of house in many Weatherspoons....you can go very wrong indeed!
i've been in the back of one, and agree wholeheartedly. the only thing i'd eat in a 'spoons is a steak as that is the only thing which doesn't come in frozen and isn't cooked in the microwave. silverthorn2151 said:
I have been back of house in many Weatherspoons....you can go very wrong indeed!
Having worked as a dishwasher in my student days in a few upmarket restaurants, it's probably better not to think about what goes on back of house, otherwise you'd never eat out again...alman said:
Gourmet beef burger: burger, blue cheese sauce, bacon, onion rings, token salad and chips with a pint of ale. £6, can't go wrong man!
Yesh!The gourmet ones are all I've ever had in there, dunno what the other food is like but I've never been disappointed. Cheap beer too... whats to moan about?
You don't exactly go into a wetherspoons expecting a michelin star meal..
shirt said:
silverthorn2151 said:
I have been back of house in many Weatherspoons....you can go very wrong indeed!
i've been in the back of one, and agree wholeheartedly. the only thing i'd eat in a 'spoons is a steak as that is the only thing which doesn't come in frozen and isn't cooked in the microwave. The people that worked in the kitchen couldn't care less about quality, food would end up on the floor and back on the grill. Don't ever send food back in a Wetherspoons.
Basically, they pay peanuts and they get monkeys, there's a reason the food is very cheap (good value as they call it!). It was only really good for half-inching plates and pint glasses to fill student house cupboards.
Pferdestarke said:
Why the hell do so many people insist on calling this chain 'Witherspoons'?
Is it intentional? Have they heard other people calling it by a made up name and think they must follow suit?
My local three are often full of alcoholics in need of their fix at opening time - 9am!
I think the winos call it 'spoonsIs it intentional? Have they heard other people calling it by a made up name and think they must follow suit?
My local three are often full of alcoholics in need of their fix at opening time - 9am!
But I'm sure that will really boil your ****
calm down dear
Dibblington said:
shirt said:
silverthorn2151 said:
I have been back of house in many Weatherspoons....you can go very wrong indeed!
i've been in the back of one, and agree wholeheartedly. the only thing i'd eat in a 'spoons is a steak as that is the only thing which doesn't come in frozen and isn't cooked in the microwave. The people that worked in the kitchen couldn't care less about quality, food would end up on the floor and back on the grill. Don't ever send food back in a Wetherspoons.
Basically, they pay peanuts and they get monkeys, there's a reason the food is very cheap (good value as they call it!). It was only really good for half-inching plates and pint glasses to fill student house cupboards.
other than that, i wholeheartedly agree. staff eating your chips etc. being the most common. only the senior managers care about what goes on, everyone else is too busy getting pissed/laid. i used to get repeatedly warned that my till was always spot on when cashed up, which was suspicious!
shirt said:
i worked at a lloyds [like cotty, they are still known as 'spoons here] and the steak came in on a daily delivery, kept in the fridge and was cooked on the chargrill thing to order.
other than that, i wholeheartedly agree. staff eating your chips etc. being the most common. only the senior managers care about what goes on, everyone else is too busy getting pissed/laid. i used to get repeatedly warned that my till was always spot on when cashed up, which was suspicious!
That sounds like it, favourites at ours were to tell the customers the bill came to a pound more than it was and short change them a quid. £2 in the tip jar off every round. Managers would round up the fake notes taken behind the bar and dish them out to the staff as a bonus at the end of the night. Agency bouncers would walk with a "Where's the fights at lads, let's 'av 'em". Now if they did a decent job they wouldn't be wading into fights with their fists! Don't know if they one I worked in was a particularly corrupt Wetherspoons but I'd never go back as a customer.other than that, i wholeheartedly agree. staff eating your chips etc. being the most common. only the senior managers care about what goes on, everyone else is too busy getting pissed/laid. i used to get repeatedly warned that my till was always spot on when cashed up, which was suspicious!
It was a complete doss working there. Nobody put any effort in, bar staff were promoted to supervisor based on the amount of time they'd been there and not merit. Supervisors thought because they carried till keys that gets them out of clearing up sick. The place was a shambles, I walked out after a month and walked into another bar job the next day over the road in a small, family run Irish bar who were honestly the nicest people I've ever worked for. The bar staff there worked hard (very hard on match days) and in turn they looked after us during exam times at uni. Complete contrast to Wetherspoons management who were only interested in profits and targets without giving two hoots about how to get the staff to perform and stop drinking the profits on the job.
... I'd blame the UK drinking culture on bars like Wetherspoons, it didn't matter how drunk customers were. Ask no questions, keep pouring the beer and keep taking their money, also keep clearing up their sick.
The thing that always annoys me about Wetherspoons is that there is never enough bar staff. The managers must get a bonus for not spending money on wages. They must lose thousands of pounds from punters who don't bother buying another round because there's a long queue, especially as the wage for an hour of a barperson's time less than the cost of a couple of drinks.
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