Wetherspoons

knightstyle

To lucy03 and goater78 We had our regular breakfast meeting here this morning http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/home/pubs/the-sweyn-forkbeard
Traditional breakfast has gone up to £1.89 and a vegetarian breakfast has come down to £1.89.
So some win some loose but great value!

olias

How come at mine its about £4 for the normal and £5 for the large breakfast? I thought it was a standard price accross the chain (My local is in Richmond NY, BTW)

Olias

p00hsticks

olias wrote: »

How come at mine its about £4 for the normal and £5 for the large breakfast? I thought it was a standard price accross the chain (My local is in Richmond NY, BTW)

Olias

I'm not sure about the food, but they definitely tailor the beer prices differently across different pubs in the chain depending on the location.

Money-Saving-King

I had a run in with Jamie a while ago. He gave the impression that he's some high flyer in retail/retail buying, well he did when I had a run in with him. He would never specify what, just he knows more than anyone else about everything (I suspect he's quite young! 20's or early 30's at most). But there seems to be many flaws in what he often comes out with.

What he says needs to be taken with a massive pinch of salt.

adouglasmhor

olias wrote: »

They may not now, but I'm sure they must have done at the start. They did manage to sell lots of beers at £1 a pint and yet still make a large profit enough to expand as they have....

Olias

Google "economies of scale".

Also how do you think any brewer is going to survive making that much overstock?

Money-Saving-King

adouglasmhor wrote: »

Google "economies of scale".

Also how do you think any brewer is going to survive making that much overstock?

It's funny the amount of posters on here that seem to think they're experts on being able to run any larger company, kind of like arm chair CEO's. Whilst in reality they couldn't run a (text removed by MSE Forum Team). Funny statement to use use on a weatherspoons thread with one of their main products being alcohol lol!

paulineb_2

Wetherspoons prices vary across the chain of pubs, this is due to differing rates that they pay in different areas. There are two wetherspoons within a 3 mile radius of my home town, the food prices vary slightly. Theres another wetherspoons about ten miles away. About a year ago in my home town the price of a pint of Carlsberg was £2, in the one ten miles away it was £1.50.

Personally I dont go into Wetherspoons for much more than a drink these days. My local pub has revamped its menu a few times over the last few years and every time they do, the price of the food rises. Its something like 7 quid for fish and chips now, a few years back it was £4. A plate of macaroni cheese is over £6. Its promoted as a cheap chain, the food really isnt that cheap anymore and given that you can get a cheap pub lunch in a few places in my local area, plus a really good quality restaurant that does cooked on the premises food and huge portions for under £8 for 2 courses, wetherspoons isnt a first choice really.

The food is also massively calorific and I would suspect quite high in fat as well. Added to that, it badly needs a refurb, its not been painted since it opened which is well over ten years ago. Its freezing, theres no heating and when its packed, due to the smoking ban, it just smells stale and like BO.

You cant beat it for drink prices, but where I live at least, thats about it.

Zedicus

paulineb wrote: »

when its packed, due to the smoking ban, it just smells stale and like BO.

Not sure why the smoking ban should make it smell of BO or stale.

Unless you mean you were happier when it smelled of BO and stale cigarette smoke. Yuk!

System

Zedicus wrote: »

Not sure why the smoking ban should make it smell of BO or stale.

Unless you mean you were happier when it smelled of BO and stale cigarette smoke. Yuk!

Before the smoking ban pubs smelt of smoke. Not stale cigarette smoke as people were smoking so it was fresh.

Since the ban has come in many pubs do just reek as the smell of its patrons, toilets and environment are no longer masked by the smell of smoke.

I don't smoke so was happy the ban came in but they are right when they say it has affected how many pubs smell.

knightstyle

olias ask for the price for a "traditional" breakfast.
In the mornings there is a separate small printed card on the tables with the breakfast prices on it, the "traditional" one is about 2/3 of the way down.