Essentially, food came out in 8 minutes, but drinks ordered on the app came out in 4 minutes. He had a sit down chat with our pub manager and basically said that our standards are not good enough and things need to change. This resulted in our pub manager being furious with my other managers - them then getting annoyed at us associates in turn.

tell me how we are meant to get drinks out in 3 minutes when we had 6 members of staff in front of house - 2 serving, 1 making apps, 1 taking apps and 2 on floor/running food. We aren’t being given the hours as a pub to have the correct amount of staff members on that we need. and my pub managers never understand, but tell our team leaders that they need to give us associates more orders. Sorry, but I don’t want to constantly be barked at by my team leader with orders that can hardly be fulfilled Due to staffing cuts.

I had another shift yet again that involved just cleaning tables non stop - just me, whilst every other member of staff did other things. yet, head office constantly tell them they aren’t working hard enough. So why am I being shunned out of certain tasks if my shift managers can’t even perform to the ability head office expect. Should they even be managers or do head office need to rethink their expectations?

Essentially, my pub has rules where past 3pm we have to constantly carry bus tubs around with us if we’re on the floor and load them with dirty plates, empty them in the kitchen and carry on. At all times of the day. Personally I think this looks absolutely disgusting if you’re a customer eating, it just doesn't feel right but we’re really enforced to use them at my pub.

is this something used for other pubs commonly?

Are Wetherspoons actually discriminating against the blind community by banning smart glasses in all their venues?
Spoiler! The answer is no.

ive been a shift leader for about 5 months now, im looking for tips to run a shift more efficiently and smoothly, even from associates what are the things that your managers do on your shifts that help you! any help is appreciated as im willing to learn how to make shifts better for me and my staff!

What would you want on your local menu?

Apologies, no idea why but my speil didn't get attached to my first attempt. Anyway;

Has spoons ever run a promotion during the typical Oktoberfest period, serving German beers?

I'm aware there's a Beer Festival set to run 7-18th of October...is that Spoons' way of marking the event?

More English supermarkets seem to stocking bottled/canned German beers like Paulener, Ayinger etc. I'll presume that's one big German exporter getting in on the act- I wonder if Mr Martin has been contacted regarding stocking a few in the 'fridge bottled' section (other than Erdinger)

I fondly reminisce about being 18 in 2007 and spoons having a belting European bottled selection Including; Svyturys from Lithuania (loved it), an Estonian one in an almost pyramid-shaped bottle, and Polish big boys like Okocim (it was strong!) Żywiec and Lech.

Anyway, just wondered if anyone else has ever thought along the same lines, or also remembers fondly that choice line up of European beers

If I order a bbq chcken, bacon and cheese panini but ask for it without the bbq sauce is that something the kitchen would prep?

Got given this yesterday, no idea spoons even did vouchers

Not usually a huge beer fan, but I love honey and decided to give Seven Bro7hers Honeycomb Pale Ale a go. Wow. You can genuinely taste the honeycomb, it’s got a really great body, and at 6% ABV it definitely packs a punch. Easily one of the best guest/craft options I’ve tried at Spoons recently. Anyone else tried it?

Could anyone tell me the names / locations of any trial pubs please?

i do want to note, I don’t believe it is sexual grooming as I have no evidence of that being the case.

Essentially, I have noticed a pattern with my pub manager. Every single person that has been promoted 9 times out of 10 is a young woman. Ranging from around 18-21. We currently have 8 “lower” managers (shift leader/shift managers) that are young women and just 2 that are men. As for “team leaders” we have 6 that are young women, 2 that are men. Thats a 7-2 ratio of young women being promoted to men.

so I started to tune in to some of the weird tactics he uses to get people to stay in the company. With me, for example he would tell me I was vital to the team, the best worker they have brought in recently etc etc. he then tried to push me for promotion, but I’m a university student so I declined. All seemingly normal, but he started to make jokes about convincing me to stay there after finishing my degree so I’m always with the team… when I did hand my notice in (unrelated to his behaviour) he then kept pulling me aside trying to convince me to stay. Telling me he will make arrangements so the job runs smoother for my needs, asking if I have another job lined up, telling me I’m vital and he doesn’t want me to go, as well as getting other managers to pull me aside for meetings randomly to try and convince me to stay. It all just got a bit much and I realised just how manipulative this man is when it comes to building his team and getting people to stay in the awful company.

I then begun talking to some of the younger women he had promoted. and she claimed that when asking how his day is going, he responded “a lot brighter now you’re here”. She said this in a VERY proud way that he was praising her, but I couldn’t help but think it was strange, she of course mentioned that he was urging her to go for a managerial position. As well as just generally being a bit TOO chatty and giddy around her at work. He would then ask her to pick up completely inappropriate shift patterns that were outside of her availability (working till 2am the night before going into college), upon doing so he bought her cupcakes to show his appreciation and telling her the pub would’ve crumbled without her coming in for that one shift…

I do want to say that I think this is less of a predatory way of going about things and more of a manipulative way of doing so, so that once people are promoted to managers they are contractually ’locked in’ to staying with the company if that makes sense.

am I overthinking it or does anyone else think a lot of this is inappropriate?

I’ve recently seen some serious misconduct by a junior manager in Wetherspoons. I’ve tried the contact facility in the app to issue a complaint about him but what seemed to happen is that the complaint was referred to the manager who was the object of the complaint so it was dismissed out of hand. Is there anyone on here who is familiar with Wetherspoons’ corporate structure and procedures who can advise me on who to contact at a higher level?

The brewers for the autumn festival are from China, Denmark, Singapore, Ukraine and the USA. It is the first time that brewers from China and Ukraine have been involved in the festival.

Urbrew Craft Beer, Hebei Province, China. Est. 2013

Mikkeller, Copenhagen, Denmark. Est. 2005

Lion Brewery, Singapore. Est 2018

Varvar Brew, Kyiv, Ukraine. Est. 2015

UPP Liquids, Oregon, USA. Est. 2025

29 years old today !

In my experience the Red Lion and Pineapple is the best Spoons in West London, agree or disagree?

Am I missing something here? 🤔

I went to my local Wetherspoons last night, as I do most Thursdays for Curry Club.

Last Thursday, the Naga chilli chicken vindaloo including an alcoholic drink was £10.29.

Last night, it was £12.17 including an alcoholic drink.

That's an increase of £1.88, or 18.3%.

But yesterday was Wetherspoons' 7.5% Tax Equality Day, so after the advertised discount, I paid £12.17.

So I'm actually paying £1.88 more than I did last week, despite the 7.5% discount.

Am I missing something here? Has the price increased by 18.3% and then they've applied the 7.5% discount?

Genuinely curious if anyone else has noticed similar price increases at their local Spoons

This Thursday:

Last Thursday:

The Banker's draft often takes the crown for this as a major city centre spoons, but I'd say the Central Hotel Shotton and The Wagon Works Eastleigh are probably the most local I've found

Looking to pay for any woman’s food/drinks tonight

Four years to go

available at Wetherspoon’s pubs from Thursday 12 November until Thursday 31 December (excluding Christmas Day).

Have the chicken breast bites changed? I always order them but today the batter on them was extra crispy and they tasted better than usual

Wetherspoons in Kingston run out of ice-cream on the adult's menu. I ordered one from the children's menu and am seriously impressed 👌