NO it Can't be ? ....Blimey !!....250 New Pubs opening !!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8387862.stm


http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/dec/01/wetherspoon-pubs-jobs

The group opened 39 pubs in the year to the end of July, and had already announced it would open 40 new pubs by the middle of next summer.

Wetherspoon recently reported record sales in the year to the end of July.

The group said it would invest £250m in the new outlets over the five years.

Wetherspoon toasts record sales

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8249918.stm

I thought pubs were closing down because the breweries were screwing their landlords with exorbitant rents and overcharging for the beer they supplied.

My mistake its NOT 16 New Breweries opened ..

Its 54 !!

http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/gbg.php

Angus Ales
(Carnoustie, Angus 2009-Still Brewing)

Ayr Brewing Company Limited
(Ayr, Ayrshire and Arran 2009-Still Brewing)

Bird Brain Brewery
(Howden, East Riding of Yorkshire 2009-Still Brewing)

Birds Brewery
(Burcot, West Midlands 2009-Still Brewing)

The Brewery Tap
(Leeds, West Yorkshire 2009-Still Brewing)

The Brewhouse Brewery
(Bolton, Greater Manchester 2009-Still Brewing)

Castor Ales
(Castor, Cambridgeshire 2009-Still Brewing)

The Clun Brewery
(Clun, Shropshire 2007-Still Brewing)

Compass Brewery
(Oxford, Oxfordshire 2009-Still Brewing)

Draycott Brewery
(Buckden, Cambridgeshire 2009-Still Brewing)

Fremington Brewery
(Yelland, Devon 2009-Still Brewing)

Gertie Sweet Brewery
(, Unassigned)

Gidley's Brewery Ltd
(Christow, Devon 2009-Still Brewing)

Ha'penny Brewing Company
(Ilford, Greater London 2009-Still Brewing)

Isle of Avalon Brewery
(Ashcott, Somerset 2009-Still Brewing)

The Kernel Brewery
(London, Greater London 2009-Still Brewing)

Liverpool Organic Brewery Ltd
(Liverpool, Merseyside 2009-Still Brewing)

Mitchell Krause Brewing Ltd
(Workington, Cumbria)

Moodley's Microbrewery
(Rusthall, Kent 2009-Still Brewing)

The Patriot Brewery Ltd
(Whichford, Warwickshire 2009-Still Brewing)

The Peerless Brewing Company Ltd
(Birkenhead, Merseyside 2009-Still Brewing)

Shenstone Brewing Company Limited
(Lichfield, Staffordshire)

The Shotover Brewing Company Ltd
(Horspath, Oxfordshire 2009-Still Brewing)

Steel City Brewing
(Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Thame Brewery
(Thame, Oxfordshire 2009-Still Brewing)

Thornecombe Brewery
(Thornecombe, Somerset 2009-Still Brewing)

Toby Jug East Brewery
(Elveden, Suffolk 2009-Still Brewing)

Toft Brewing Company
(Cheadle, Staffordshire 2009-Still Brewing)

Topsham Brewery
(Topsham, Devon 2009-Still Brewing)

Trinity Ales
(Gisleham, Suffolk 2009-Still Brewing)

Two Bridges Brewery
(Caversham, Berkshire 2009-Still Brewing)

The Untapped Brewing Company
(Cardiff, South Glamorgan)

Urban Brewery
(Birmingham, West Midlands 2009-Still Brewing)

Wantsum Brewery Ltd
(Hersden, Kent 2009-Still Brewing)

Wash House Brewery
(Tamworth, West Midlands 2009-Still Brewing)

slimfast ...shhhhhhhhh..we know that .... ;-)

OK mum's the word ;)

What is it that's confusing you?

wetherspoons is like tescos ....they open one in a town and 5 other places close .....you cant blame them because people obviously like what they do and frequent them .

prices at wetherspoons seem to be about half what other pubs charge .....the furnishings are always good and the toilets brilliant ,you cant say that about many pubs

you can't say that about many toilets!

the Shakespeare pub in Liverpool are supposed to have the most ornate toilets for a pub in uk ...just the GENTS...
Tourists come to visit there just so they can photograph them ..
Ladies have to ask permission so a male staff can check the toilets are empty . :-)

They have just opened a 2nd one on the isle of wight also which i cannot see in that list.

i live in a town with about 15000, 2000 and theres 8 pubs , a snooker hall and 3 hotels that no one stays in but drinks in.

15000,20000

none have closed which is unreal as there always dead

wetherspoons (in my experience) = cheap beer, inedible food (reheated in a microwave), manky carpets, soulless, always have at least 5 blokes sitting on their own quickly downing a pint at 10:30am.

Regarding value for money Wetherspoons are miles in front of the others, its as simple as that.

also, the dirtiest glasses i've ever seen.

Leaving aside the fact that Wetherspoons pubs are appalling places, far more pubs have closed down that the mere 250 netioned here. A thread opener that can only have been written by a non or rare pub user.

*mentioned

well thats down to crappy staff...
We have 2 here now, 1 is very nice and upmarketish (about a month old so give it time) the other is a bit of a dump but always very popular.

wetherspoons are for winos.

Revolting places. However, I bought shares in them about 5 years ago - happy days.

lol

Great business model, no Sky TV charges, no music, so no payments to Performing Rights Society etc.,massive purchasing power = massive discounts on both beer and food supplies. Staffing costs kept to absolute minimum and basic decor reduces fit out costs.The 'Asda' of the pub world imo.

when you think of the pub culture in other countries and people are flocking to the local turd hole because "the beer and food is cheap"

They go with the town a scruffy town a scruffy Wetherspoons, a nice town a nice Wetherspoons.
Take your pick.

Mc Beers

Crippen, so the food in the nice ones isn't microwave rubbish then?

You can open all the wetherspoons you want. Its the locals run by normal landlords that are closing. thats the problem. I want a landlord, not a manager.

These kids jump out of college, do a bit of work in a pub, attend a wetherspoons course and get given the managers job in a pub. No real world experience of dealing with the real bad things that can go on in a pub.

I dont want wooden floors, uncomfortable wooden stools, cheap beer, and posters telling me that I can have a curry and a pint for a fiver.

I want carpet, cushioned stools, open fires. real ale, wooden beams, and a pub where a regular has his own beer mug. I may sound like an old fart, but it's what I like, and so do most of the people on here imo.

Bullsh*t, they attract 11am drinkers whatever town they are in.

Unfortunately Wetherspoons is a chain of outlets which have little in common with the traditional British pub that is a way of life for so may people. Their food is all mass-produced in a factory in Milton Keynes or somewhere like that and shipped out frozen to all its outlets and then reheated in a microwave ffs. The UK is probably the only country where they could get away with such an act of culinary barbarism simply because so many British people have such low standards when it comes to food.

Any time I have ever been in one of them, which is not often, beggars come in asking for spare change. Why do they not throw them out

they attract 11am drinkers whatever town they are in.

I though that was what they were open for, or am I missing something?

spot on, man of many moods. Didn't the story about the Yak burgers involve wetherspoons?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-476612/Zebu-*****sir-Why-pub-steak-b...

Most pub food is low quality, its just a lot cheaper at Wetherspoons.

Hits the nail on the head, Macdonalds meets Alcohol

The Woodrow Wilson's portions are shít, to top it all off. You'd think they were serving mice ffs.

Serving to mice*

I was in WW's once and the fridge was broken, didn't seem to bother anyone else to be fair and the 20something manager couldnt undertand what the problem was.

freudian slip, dk

:^0

That Toby Carvery beside Tesco once had a notice up: "We are sorry to inform customers that we have no Yorkshire puddings due to a technical error". What's that about then?!

WW is always frequented by the same old geezers isn't it, presumably waiting for life to take them away. Sorry life to lead. Then again they're not wasting their time on here.

Rather than going to a wetherspoons you are better off staying at home, asking the wife not to clean the house for a week, cooking up the cheapest food she can find, before freezing it for a week and heating it up in the microwave. The great british pub experience without having to put your tracksuit on.

Why not also ask her to throw you out at 11pm on the dot, and threaten to call the Police if you do not move towards the front door to finish your drink.

Got no wife, or a bird.

Could always provide asylum for a Polish scrag. Keep him under wraps, take 50% of whatever money he acquires. They find ways, don't they.

Make him my b itch, obviously.

i meant "one" rather than you personally, dk! ;-)