How do Weatherspoons do it?

[Lindenbaggie]

Spoons benefits a community with reasonably priced food and drink, with a handy outlet for when you're caught short.

[soulman101]

My wife and i are tea total and often have Pub meals , but the price of soft drinks or coffee are expensive it's cheaper to buy booze.

[The Minn Junta]

Does anyone remember the beer price war between the Billiard Hall and the Sandwell? over 20 years back now.

A mate of mine at work back then knew one of the landlords, given it had gone as low as 15p a pint he asked how low would you be prepared to go, he replied 7p!

[mickd1961]

When I saw the title “How do Spoons do it” my immediate reaction was......”manage to attract so many of our local lowlife into one spot at one time”.

There’s no wonder they shut Stourbridge and Hagley police stations in recent years,they’re no longer needed......police just pop into Spoons when they’re trying to hunt down a suspect!

I’m always amazed how many people have no work and nothing better to do at 10.30am in a morning than be in a pub.

Nothing more heartening than to see local ****age and early twenties women stroking their hair,twiddling ear rings you could jump through,updating their Facebook status whilst their two year old is trying to climb up the leg of 65 year old alcoholic *****phile.

It was much better back in the 70’s in Stourbridge when pubs had more draconian opening hours,at least in those days the work shy didn’t have a reason to get up before 4pm.

[albion68]

Does anyone remember the beer price war between the Billiard Hall and the Sandwell? over 20 years back now.

A mate of mine at work back then knew one of the landlords, given it had gone as low as 15p a pint he asked how low would you be prepared to go, he replied 7p!

remember it well minn,if any body remembers the barbers in bull street Laurence farly.i was in there having a haircut,and he was telling the story of the manager of the goose.who was a having a cut .he told Laurence that the head office gave him orders to drop the price no matter what.saying the radio and tv coverage would have cost a bomb and they was having it for nowt.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

My wife and i are tea total and often have Pub meals , but the price of soft drinks or coffee are expensive it's cheaper to buy booze.

I just paid £2.90 for one coffee I think it's £1.30 for a many as you want at Weatherspoons.

I enjoyed my hour or so on Thursday but even at £1.39 a pint it's no sub for my local where I can walk in and have a pint pulled without asking and say hello to 30 or so aquaitances. The English local in my experience nothing anywhere else in the world to compare. Just another thing we do best.

Turning the question around anyone know why the beer in my local is so expensive? What do they pay, what do Weatherspoons pay?

[NortonBaggie]

I just paid £2.90 for one coffee I think it's £1.30 for a many as you want at Weatherspoons.

I enjoyed my hour or so on Thursday but even at £1.39 a pint it's no sub for my local where I can walk in and have a pint pulled without asking and say hello to 30 or so aquaitances. The English local in my experience nothing anywhere else in the world to compare. Just another thing we do best.

Turning the question around anyone know why the beer in my local is so expensive? What do they pay, what do Weatherspoons pay?

Simple economics mate, the more Spoons order the bigger the discounts they get, massively more so than a single free trade outlet. In answer to your question about your local there are many reasons for the price, very few Publican's rip their customers off despite some popular opinion. For example if a Pub is owned by a pub Company, Punch, Enterprise M&B, they suffer from high rents and have to buy their beer from the PubCo at their prices. Historically pub Co's benefit from high rents and discounts from the brewers that they don't pass on to the Pubs. Incidentally Spoons is a relatively small player in the market compared to other PubCo's but they sell the beer themselves not through tenants. Add on extortionate business rates/Sky TV etc and a lot of turnover has to go through the books before a Publican makes a profit. I'm not a publican by the way

[Baggiemadguern]

We don’t have one over here, thankfully, but we have used them on occasions when we cross the channel. Went to one in Manchester last year. Filthy cheap beer, filthy surroundings and god awful food. Went to one in Edinburgh on the bridge, just used their bug and went to a proper pub.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

We don’t have one over here, thankfully, but we have used them on occasions when we cross the channel. Went to one in Manchester last year. Filthy cheap beer, filthy surroundings and god awful food. Went to one in Edinburgh on the bridge, just used their bug and went to a proper pub.

Never had a filthy beer, surroundings are usually fantastic (as below) as they convert old buildings that might otherwise be empty on the High Street. Food is what it is cheap and cheerful. I've paid a lot more and had a worse steak than the one I had here last year.

https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/a...dium-llandudno

and the toilets were superb.

[Baggiemadguern]

Never had a filthy beer, surroundings are usually fantastic (as below) as they convert old buildings that might otherwise be empty on the High Street. Food is what it is cheap and cheerful. I've paid a lot more and had a worse steak than the one I had here last year.

https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/pubs/a...dium-llandudno

and the toilets were superb.

Ahhh... see what you did there. However, I never said I had a filthy beer in Manchester’s Weatherspoon. I said I had a filthy cheap beer, meaning it was inexpensive. I said the place was filthy and I said It had god awful food. I speak as I find. Have you been to the same one in Manchester that I attended? It was filthy and food was, shockingly awful.

I like beer, so agree it is cheap for that, however I like nice surroundings and, I am a bit of a foodie, so I accept I went to the wrong place If that is what I was looking for.

I did not criticise the toilets in Edinburgh, in fact I was mightily appreciative for them.