Wetherspoons

[Saluki]

Dropped into Weatherspoons in Barnstaple today - the Watergate on the Strand - and we had 2 x excellent Fish and Chips, washed down with a couple of pints of beer, for £11.96!
We drop in quite regularly. Unlimited coffee, with a slice of very nice cake, for less than a fiver per couple always goes down well.
Service is always quick and the food is consistent at all the ones we've been to. The staff always seem to be happy as well !
Weatherspoons is rapidly becoming the only place us pensioners can afford to eat out! LOL
How do they do it?

(I must add that I have absolutely no affiliation to Weatherspoons at all - I'm just a satisfied customer)

I like a nice Weatherspoons. Reasonable quality and lots of coffee.
Have you tried a 'Crown Carvery' chain pub. Mon - Sat carvery at 3.95 per person. Excellent value and you can load your plate with a ton of veg and spuds.

 

[pplpilot]

I spend a LOT of time away from home, hotel to hotel, and a few times in the last months I've tried a few Wetherspoon hotels, very impressed with the standards of the room amd cleanliness and cheap too, dont think I've paid more than £50. One of the best steaks (as pub grub goes) I've had for a long time was on one such visit at the one in Kings Lynn. Decent beer, decent (for what it is...) food, a nice clean room a small stagger away and good breakfast, whats not to like?

 

[MontyVeda]

my old man drinks in those oldfangled Working Men's Clubs... i often wonder how they manage to sell the beer so much cheaper than a normal pub.

 

[Dirk]

I like a nice Weatherspoons. Reasonable quality and lots of coffee.
Have you tried a 'Crown Carvery' chain pub. Mon - Sat carvery at 3.95 per person. Excellent value and you can load your plate with a ton of veg and spuds.

None of those down here - nearest is over 50 mile away.

 

[ufkacbln]

You missed the word allegedly....it wasn't a statement of fact. I do not consider myself pulled up.

Surely Fenton would have pulled up at your instruction

 

[nickyboy]

They have massive buying power, and have stuck it to Heineken when Heineken got a bit uppity http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-30396012

I think they also refused to stock Guinness in their Irish outlets when Guinness refused to come into line price wise

 

[vernon]

Surely Fenton would have pulled up at your instruction

I've dispensed with his services. My new butler's called Jim. @User14044 nearly bumped into him this morning.

 

[Saluki]

None of those down here - nearest is over 50 mile away.

Ah well. I knew that they were all over the country but obviously not in your neck of the woods. We have the same problem with Harvesters.

 

[Dirk]

We have the same problem with Harvesters.

Nearest Harvester is in Exeter - best part of 60 miles away.
We've got four Weatherspoons though - two in Barnstaple, one each in Bideford and Ilfracombe.

 

[vickster]

Nearest Harvester is in Exeter - best part of 60 miles away.

I'd say that was close enough. I have two within 10 minutes, wouldn't eat in either!!

 

[screenman]

I'd say that was close enough. I have two within 10 minutes, wouldn't eat in either!!

Good point, we use the often but one I Lincoln is not good.

 

[vickster]

I've never eaten in them, you can do so much better than national chains

 

[screenman]

Have you spent much time in Lincolnshire, non national normally means same or lower quality with a higher price.

Do not get me wrong as I will happily support the smaller business, but in this county they just do not try hard enough.

Classic example, local pub fish and chips £11.95 pint £3.60 neither very good and poor service. I could lists loads more.

 

[vickster]

I don't eat fish and chips in a pub so wouldn't know cost

Many years ago, I had a lovely rack of ribs here http://www.damons.co.uk/lincoln/

My brother used to go fairly regularly having friends in Lincoln

 

[Archie_tect]

Read and eat humble pie @Archie_tect

Nope, I had my fingers crossed at the time.... but pass a slice of the pie if it's one of yours.