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Originally Posted by The Flying Mouse
Wetherspoons is good at being what it is, and that is a licenced restaurant that does cheap and cheerful grub.
Wetherspoons is not a local pub dependant on local trade.
Wetherspoons is a high street brand like WH Smiths, Woolworths, or Burger King.
They live off passing trade.
Wetherspoons, to me, is not a pub.
Just somewhere that happens to sell food and drink. |
I disagree 100%
Stevenage has two of them and they are 'local pubs' who do not rely on passing trade. People have made them their locals cause they cottened on to something clever. That people wanted cheaper food and drink. And IMO this is whats needed to over come the smoking ban and turn things around. Take a local near me, theyve turned themselves into a bikers pub, with secure parking for the bikes. They also built a proper smoking garden. And guess what, it worked. Everyone just has to find that something that will work, rather than keep blaming the smoking ban.