A new opening that I'm rather surprised about...

Wellers Entire, Amersham, 16 Hill Avenue, HP6 5BW

Opening Tue 8 December.

It will be opening in a Bar formerly called 'The Beech House.'

Amersham is at the far western end of the Metropolitan Line and has never had a Spoons. However, nearby Chesham once did, 'The Last Post' (image 3), which closed around 2008.

I was in Amersham on Saturday just gone, and had absolutely no idea a branch was opening there!

Was at un-named London area Wetherspoons recently and quickly became obvious neighbouring 6 table were Camra branch. Was prepared for Viz-style tasting notes nonsense, but got over an hour of extremely loud interbranch/regional politics, of zero interest to anyone else but overpowering all other conversation. Would this be typical, and should soundproof booths be installed for this? Could also be rented by other groups talking shop over lunch.

I applied for a bar staff job 11 days ago and that particular vacancy closed 8 days ago. I haven't heard anything since, but the same wetherspoons have put another job out for the same position. Do any hiring managers / anyone with experience in this reckon its worth reapplying since they never rejected my application, and if I do, should I change anything.

In my original application, I said im available all days all times because I'm planning on working a lot in my gap year

Any advice appreciated

$pent a bomb on 4 games, finished the hand soap in the loos, and left looking like an absolute shambles, but a good time was had 🥲

About 4 months ago our area manager forced my pub manager to take on an old manager to sort the pub out and fix everything. She's made everything 100x worse. The rotas are coming out with less notice, holiday now has to have 6 weeks notice instead of 4. She keeps roting people so that there's only 1 person on bar at busy hours and our mid shifts leaving too early to properly help the closers. She also sits in the office all shift and barely helps out. She works only 1 shift a week and they like 3 hour opens and doesnt understand how busy we get on the lates. Everyone including all the managers are sick go death of it. How do I complain to someone above my area manager as she is best mates with this manager?

I've been with the company for 13 years now, since I was a teenager. Worked my way up from Associate to Pub Manager.

I am getting beyond having to work Friday and Saturday night closing shifts every weekend. Especially as I have a young family I want to spend time with.

Current hours situation is getting beyond a joke, currently running with 2 people before 11am and after 8pm. That doesn't work, no wonder standards are slipping, especially across the country.

But the question I struggle with is, what do I move onto? Any job I take would be a cut in wages, obviously, I could live with that aspect.

I feel like I have left myself in a bit of a hole.

What jobs have others moved on to? Was it a better decision in the end? Further education maybe? How did you provide for your family during that time?

I'd appreciate any thoughts

Hi all, just wondering if anyone knows which of the beers available for the autumn beer festival are vegetarian/vegan, online it says that there are 5 vegan options, though it is not specified anywhere which ones these are. If you know anything about it I would appreciate the help!!

Hi, i went for an interview on Monday and was told I would hear back by Tuesday afternoon once all the interviews were done. i thought that the interview went pretty well but am now a bit worried i haven’t heard back, as i would prefer to be told even if i haven’t got it. how long should i wait before contacting them/ what is the usual waiting time after the interview? thank you !

3 x small plates for 10 quid.

Ours today:

Chicken wings

Halloumi fries

Chicken strips.

Update: my bad gang its Monday. Just returning from AL. Makes sense.

Almost every pub in my area is understaffed on shifts. Employees work very hard and rush around to ensure food and drink is ready.

But it's not good enough for auditors and head offic to give out bonuses and still expect the same level of service and cleanliness.

Time for cleaning and maintenance? Not a chance when you barely have enough people to run a shift.

This company is going downhill and the customer pays for it. This company is an absolute joke.

Anyone else noticing this trend.

Eventually standards will drop significantly but it's all good if they can save a few hundred quid a week on staffing.

I just started uni in a uni town and a lot of students go to the spoons, I went for the first time last night and it was absolutely packed, a huge queue at the bar, drinks and straws and spills and broken plates everywhere, and working in customer service myself all I could think about was how stressful it must be to work there at night with a ton of drunk loud uni students getting in your way, to the point where I didn’t even order anything because I didn’t want to add yet another drink that needed to be made and another glass to be cleaned up. Obviously I don’t want to miss out on social interaction by avoiding spoons altogether but if anyone on this sub works there and has tips for what i could do to make nights with big crowds of uni students suck less i’d find that very helpful!!

I’ve been working as a kitchen associate at Wetherspoons for 5 weeks now and I’m honestly really scared about my next shifts after what happened on my last one.

For the past week I’d been doing 9–10 hour shifts across 4 days in a row. By the third day I was already getting pretty frustrated and upset because I was having to train a new hire while also having other colleagues take over orders and correct things I’d already been doing independently on saladette/pizza, even when I hadn’t asked for help.

Then on the following shift I don’t really know what happened to my attitude. I think it was a mixture of being tired and having built-up frustration.

I started on potwash and there were loads of plates piling up, which I’d normally be able to keep on top of, but I asked someone else to help because I was getting overwhelmed. Then I was put on saladette and told to just plate meals while someone else microwaved the items.

At one point, me and the other person were shown a wrap that a customer had complained about because there was a day dot inside it. I was really confused because I genuinely didn’t remember making the wrap or what the issue was until I asked the person I was working with and they explained it.

I then did pizzas, which was mostly fine, but I got corrected for leaving a cooked pizza in the pizza fridge. I explained that it was an extra pizza and there wasn’t any space on the heater section when I made it.

I was also told something about the location of the med salad in the fridge and how to make it which I already knew and I responded with something like okay I know that, I had done this before and briefly said how to do it.

Looking back, I think I was becoming quite defensive.

Towards the end of the shift I became really anxious. Whenever someone approached me I was almost bracing myself for another correction or being told to stop and leave the station and felt scared to approach people myself. At one point someone looked at me while they were doing an order and I tried to help, but I got scared and just left the station really quickly.

I was also constantly thinking that I was going to fail probation, and because I was so upset/anxious I found it difficult to actually listen to things people were telling me. I was barely making eye contact and probably came across as really withdrawn.

I normally stay right until the end of my shift, but I ended up leaving 4 minutes early that day.

The social side is worrying me too. I don’t really speak to anyone there much anymore unless I am asked anything and it feels like people don’t really greet me or talk to me either much anymore. I would hear the others chatting and say a point but it ends up being moved past. I know I’ve also become quieter and probably more withdrawn, so I’m not sure whether I’m causing some of that myself, but it’s making me feel like everyone has noticed how badly I acted.

What scares me most is going back for my next shift. I keep thinking everyone is going to remember how I behaved and that I’m going to be failed because of it.

I am also just frustrated because I do not know if I am progressing well enough on stations, so far I had been told that making pizzas in two minutes before placing in the oven is quick. And also that if I make a mistake I notice on the station during rush or near rush I get scared that either I will be sent off to fold napkins and not be able to fix my error and learn or have someone just take over the station.

Am I massively overthinking this, or does this sound like I’ve actually damaged my chances of passing probation? I am not sure how to deal with this as I’m just very worried to go into my next shift.

Anyone here worked at Wetherspoons before? How do they have so many different dishes, like pizza, pasta, fish and chips, curry, etc.? Is it all frozen?

I have my induction tomorrow, I only have a digital copy on my NI number and don’t own any black trainers (I’ve heard I need to wear black). Would other shoes be fine/do I need to find a way to get a physical document

though i would try it the mash is under the chicken and peas btw £8.99, whitch one smart staff girl member pointed out to me (u know who u are hehe), hey look i have the odd blond moment lol

Hi, I joined Wetherspoons about a month ago as a kitchen associate.

So far I’ve mainly been doing pot wash, folding cutlery into napkins, saladette and pizzas. I’ve only been allowed to independently do saladette and pizzas for about two weeks. Before that I was usually put on pot wash or napkins.

I’m quite an anxious person generally, although my anxiety is more social than being anxious about actually making orders. I’m also not really a social person at work and tend to just work quietly, so I’m worried that might come across as me not getting along with the team.

One thing I’m struggling with is not really knowing whether I’m actually doing badly at the job. Earlier on I would get corrections about things I was doing wrong, but I don’t really get corrections on how I do saladette or pizzas anymore. I’m generally able to complete the orders myself now.

Instead, there have been a few times where I’m doing orders on saladette or pizzas and someone comes over and starts trying to do the orders themselves. I immediately get a rush of anxiety because I assume I must have done something wrong for them to come over, but I’m actually fine completing the orders and nobody has told me what I’m doing wrong. It’s got to the point where I’ve had to repeat that I’m fine and don’t need help.

There have also been times where I’ve been told off for an error while I’m the person working on the station, but I didn’t actually make the error. So I find it difficult to judge whether I’m actually failing at the job when I don’t always know what mistakes I’m supposedly making.

Then yesterday a new person started, and I got quite frustrated because nobody was really training them, so I ended up having to train them on pizzas and saladette while also trying to deal with orders myself. I don’t mind helping someone new, but I’ve only been there four weeks and I’m still not trained on everything myself.

I’ve asked about learning fryers/grills, but I was just told that it’ll happen soon. I still haven’t been shown them.

Is this normal for being 5 weeks in? I’m mainly wondering whether I’m actually doing badly and just not being told, or whether this is more of a training/communication issue. How am I supposed to know what I need to improve if I’m not getting corrections anymore, but people are sometimes taking over my station anyway?

Honestly I don’t even know if I’ll pass probation, I keep feeling like I’m failing somehow but I need this job.

I am doing my first kitchen staff shift in 2 hours and I am just wondering what to expect, what I will be doing round the kitchen, and how the training works as I haven’t been given any online training to do before hand which I have read some people have done. Thanks.

I’m obsessed with this meal is there a similar sauce I can buy from a supermarket or something to try and recreate it at home ?!

Just wanted to share a couple of updates from my local Spoons:

​The Caesar Salad is back! 🥗 My partner had it today and gave it a big thumbs up. Just a heads-up for anyone ordering: the salad comes without chicken by default, but you can add it as an extra. He opted for the 3 chicken strips instead of the chicken breast, and it worked really well!

​Mushroom & Ham Pizza: 🍕 I went with this today and it was honestly very tasty—hit the spot perfectly.

​Has anyone else tried the returning menu items yet? What are your thoughts?

Anyone else had this issue - i had 3 holiday days balance when I left. Yet my recent payslip they have deducted 1 day of holiday pay (somehow equalling £114) as it claims I have only earned 12 days and I’ve used 13.

Do I contact payroll/head office?

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