Wetherspoons

tomtontom

Are they not thick cut chips in Wetherspoons? If so you'd have to be a right porker to want more than 17 of them!

lucy03

Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »

You get what you pay for. You paid something like £2.13 for a pint and £3.36 for a meal and got a watered down, warm pint of swill in a dirty glass and fish and chips fresh from the microwave. Let this be a lesson to you.

Do you have any evidence that Wetherspoon water down their beers or ales or have you made this up? The chain has a particularly high standard in the way they treat real ales and they've done a considerable amount in promoting real ales and real ciders IMO.

stampede

lucy03 wrote: »

Do you have any evidence that Wetherspoon water down their beers or ales or have you made this up? The chain has a particularly high standard in the way they treat real ales and they've done a considerable amount in promoting real ales and real ciders IMO.

Whilst I agree that their foods nothing to shout home about, I think their beers are second to none.

gardner1

The chips are bloody awful anyway....main problem with beer range is its to big,you can't have 9 different lagers on sale and have the turnover to ensure no keg is more than 5 days old.my ex local has this problem and some lagers are rank..real ales not much better........gave up going there now use proper pub with proper beer couple of miles away

Lost2

PILES wrote: »

How big were the chips?

some of the where the ends of potatoes
what surprised me is they didn't count the peas

Lost2

4743hudsonj wrote: »

My partner is a kitchen manager at a JDW and there isn't a hard and fast number of chips to give. They have a portioning scoop but most spoons are now getting new china atm (blue patterned) which are quite a bit smaller. This means staff may consciously or subconsciously be putting less on a plates.

On a personal note I think you have to be pretty sad to go to somewhere like weatherspoons and count how many chips they give you. Your getting a meal and drink for less than an hours minimum wage.

They counted the chips not me

lucy03

gardner1 wrote: »

The chips are bloody awful anyway....main problem with beer range is its to big,you can't have 9 different lagers on sale and have the turnover to ensure no keg is more than 5 days old.my ex local has this problem and some lagers are rank..real ales not much better........gave up going there now use proper pub with proper beer couple of miles away

I can't think of many Wetherspoons that have real ale kegs left for over five days, their turnover is huge. Lagers can be kept for much longer unless you're referring to something more niche. I worked for a rival chain to JDW and I have to say, the real ale supplied by JDW was of a consistently very high standard.

I actually think their food is generally good too. It's cheap and cheerful, inevitably much is fried, microwaved or grilled but I haven't gone in expecting restaurant quality. The JDW near to me charges £4.39 for a pint and a burger and for that I'm not personally expecting anything particularly substantial. But I'd rather have a burger and pint there than McDonalds next door given that they're the same price.

Contains_Mild_Peril

4743hudsonj wrote: »

I think you have to be pretty sad to go to somewhere like weatherspoons and count how many chips they give you. Your getting a meal and drink for less than an hours minimum wage.

It's getting to be more like a snack and a drink. I used to like their burger with chips and a drink deal, but I've found both the quantity and the quality has deteriorated quite noticeably. Their pesto pasta is quite good though, and I've never had a problem with any drink I've ordered.

gardner1

Lagers need to be on for 5 days Max.......hence why slow sellers like tuborg/Coors/Amstel taste like !!!! because they have been on for to long.small kegs hold 88 pints which they have to sell 17/18 pints a day which is very hard when you have 9 lagers and most people ask for more well known brands

duchy

I worked for Wetherspoons a few years ago. Their keg care was second to none and because prices were low beer turnover was high so guest beers never hung around for long. Often to the dismay of regulars. Fish and chips certainly weren't microwaved either but cooked to order.