Max respect to Tim... Wetherspoons are an amazing chain, with superbly clean toilets and amazingly cheap prices across the board, for the people of all backgrounds. A pint of crystal cold Strongbow, in a Strongbow pint glass, £2.75... THE 'Regal' in Cambridge. Good job Tim...

@spudspuddy

23 күн бұрын

Well done BOT, Wetherspoons's cheque in the post

@zx9mel

22 күн бұрын

They really do try with their toilets . . . the Art Deco loo's at The Peter Cushing in Whitsable are amazing.

@zx9mel

22 күн бұрын

@@spudspuddy Is everyone you don't agree with a BOT ?

I'm a Wetherspoons fan, and proud of it

@spudspuddy

24 күн бұрын

makes your dole cheque go further does it?

@Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR

24 күн бұрын

@@spudspuddy not on the dole, I work and prefer value for money to being ripped off

The wetherspoons at Ilfracombe is amazing. It takes centre stage on a run down beach front street and keeps the place alive. The staff are all friendly.

I love how he very graciously chose pubs in all Uk countries

@StonefieldJim4

26 күн бұрын

Yes, that stood out for me too - and it was obviously said with genuine pride and sincerity.

@spudspuddy

23 күн бұрын

uk countries, they is only 4

@Londonfogey

6 күн бұрын

@@spudspuddy Three actually. Wales is officially a principality, not a kingdom.

@spudspuddy

6 күн бұрын

​@@Londonfogey and england is not a kingdom either but together they all form a kingdom

@JustAlex848

4 күн бұрын

Dublin is not in the UK - it's in the Republic of Ireland (not Northern Ireland)

Excellent piece. I visited a Wetherspoons in Portsmouth recently and was astounded how busy it was and the way it brought locals (many pensioners) together.

The snobbery about Wetherspoons says all you need to know about those who despise it.

@spudspuddy

25 күн бұрын

The unemployed seem to love it they spend every day sitting outside these places

@steve-kl9iv

22 күн бұрын

Everybody likes it. Middle-class with money, self employed, low wage earners, unemployed, pensioners, single people, married couples, families with kids, the young, middle aged and old . I never used to be a big fan of spoons but since the cost of living crisis and pubs ripping everyone off, spoons is now my first choice anywhere I go ,​@@spudspuddy

@user-pf3ye6yi9n

20 күн бұрын

The far left wouldn't be seen dead in one. As far as I'm concerned this is a feature, not a bug.

@spudspuddy

4 күн бұрын

@@user-pf3ye6yi9n the opposite is true, they are full of lefty loosers who never work snd demand union jacks are not displayed

@beebeer

6 сағат бұрын

@@user-pf3ye6yi9n I drink in Wetherspoons with far left mates. If the price is right politics is forgotten with some people.

I've just come back from a weekend at the King's Head Inn hotel in Salisbury. Great building, lovely location, very nice room, good price, cheap food and drink. I've stayed at seven of their hotels now and eaten at 80 of their pubs - highly recommended!

Love Wetherspoons - what's not to like about lovely buildings and cheap drinks? Also like the hotels - good value, good breakfasts. Plus Wetherspoons pubs actually feel (almost) like pubs used to do - actual conversations, mixture of people 👍👍👍 great business model Tim

Good man.

I was on holiday in Milton Keynes at the weekend and called into the Wetherspoons there and got a few nice choices off the menu. It only came to 9 pounds. I had to ask - 'are you sure?'. The prices are so good and the quality was great. I have to add that the staff were very friendly as well.

@ommk9650

26 күн бұрын

Which MK Spoons was it? Moon under water at the xscape, Old spoons or the Bletchley one?

@michaelconnolly7681

26 күн бұрын

@ommk9650 the one at xscape. Really nice open place. I enjoyed spending some time there.

@ommk9650

26 күн бұрын

Milton Keynes gets a bad rap but is really quite a pleasant city. Very green and lovely to drive around in the summer.

@michaelconnolly7681

26 күн бұрын

@ommk9650 it was my first time in Milton Keynes. I think it's a beautiful place, very scenic. And Newport Pagnell is quite nice too.

@ommk9650

26 күн бұрын

@@michaelconnolly7681 I live in Newport Pagnell. You should check out Stony Stratford next time too. Nice little town. Glad you enjoyed it. Whenever friends from around the country come to visit, they always seem quite surprised due to the bad reputation the city seems to have.

I just love the Spoon's app and ordering your drink to your table 😊

Recently spent three weeks in a hotel next to a ‘spoons on one side and a Starbucks on the other. I’ll never work out how a coffee in one cost me nearly twice as much as a pint in the other

Top man ! Much underrated

Just wanted to say. The filming, editing and story telling in this was great. The content was also good.

@spudspuddy

24 күн бұрын

BOT

Tim is a legend. Top bloke too… 👍🏼

Tim Martin is a superb businessman. Love Wetherspoons. Where did the Wetherspoons name derive from

@yinoveryang4246

22 күн бұрын

"The name of the business originates from JD, a character in The Dukes of Hazzard, and Wetherspoon, the surname of one of Martin's teachers in New Zealand, who had told him that he thought he would never amount to much".

@seamusweber8298

22 күн бұрын

@yinoveryang4246 thank you

Surely this man is a national hero?

@Londonfogey

6 күн бұрын

Yes, but the media I suspect don't like him because he holds the 'wrong' opinion on Brexit.

worked at wetherspoons best job i have ever had

I’m sat in spoons in Cornwall watching this 🍺

@spudspuddy

23 күн бұрын

sad you couldn't afford to go somewhere decent

My kind of person! !!! GREAT guy 😊

I met Tim when I worked at "The Shakespeares Head" pub in Holborn London about 25 years ago. I sat down with him and my manager and had a pint and a bite to eat, he was such a lovely bloke, and a great orator.

Spoons, great beer at affordable prices, enough said, bring it on and they did.

I was in Spoons in Old Trafford last Tuesday I think it was, about 1.30 and I looked up at a guy, I thought that looks like sir Tim Wetherspoon and blow me it was. He was sat there taking it all in, before making his presence known. Needless to say, he didn't get a round in.🤣🤣🤣

@SB111058

23 күн бұрын

Same with me last year in The Spoons in Baker Street..👍

@martin4787

23 күн бұрын

@@SB111058 🙂👍

I've met so many friends in pubs. The high costs of having a couple on the way home from work is destroying that form of contact. I wish that a chain had the nous to compete with Wetherspoons, and open up the market - but nobody's tried.

@Londonfogey

6 күн бұрын

The Samuel Smith's chain is probably the nearest rival.

@twentyrothmans7308

6 күн бұрын

@@Londonfogey Swiss Cottage!

Always had a good experience in Wetherspoons

Was at the pre-opening of the Weatherspoons, Wick, Far North, Scotland. It was housed in a three floored excellent old Post Office. After that I was a frequent customer. There is never a stilted atmosphere in any "Spoon" which seems to be part of the sucess story. I also had used the PO before it's transformation. I remeber that PO smell and happy to say banished when Weatherspoons moved in. Sadly, after many years of excellence I suppose Tim Martin found it was time to move and leave "The Alexander Bain" to another group. Bain, I understand, was the local boy who created the "Fax' machine. Worth a Google for the pics and extended story. It's truly missed.

Our local Wetherspoons in Caerphilly was the first place to give our young son a job after a year of applying elsewhere. It's a great pub and he is loving his shifts. Thanks Tim, we have also purchased some shares.

Fantastic guy. Great sense of humour and plays himself down despite being a legend to thousands of Spoon lovers.

Great business, good food and beer, welcoming attitude and fair price… simples.. 😜

@user-pf3ye6yi9n

19 күн бұрын

They do so many things right that the rest of the trade don't. Open every day all day. Food - if you can find a seat you can order food and it will arrive remarkably quickly even when the place is packed, no "sorry we're fully booked" or waiting for hours. Ale in good condition at the best prices - I don't expect others to be able to match their prices but the difference shows a lot are really trying it on.

Top man Tim.

I love spoons come down to Woking Tim , your a hero

With regard to how do they keep the prices so low, basically they open at 8am and shut at midnight. So they are just making a lot of sales per day.

How is it that Richard Branson was lauded and held up as an example for his efforts, some of which came to nought, whilst Tim Martin has been largely shunned by the establishment. Could it be that his business model treads on the toes of vested interests by the multinationals that mostly domnate the hospitality industry? £6 for a pint at my brewery owned local and £2.25 at Wetherspoons for exactly the same product.

@Londonfogey

6 күн бұрын

I think also his political views make him something of an outcast from the centrist-remainer establishment.

A haven for itinerant workers on limited expense accounts! (I am struggling with the mental picture of Tim in slingbacks, though!) Great magazine also.

Spoons forever!!!

I was unlucky enough to be subjected to an episode of the BBC's "I'm sorry I haven't a clue". Host Jack Dee made a joke about an Oxford Bullingdon club dinner getting out of hand and making £5000 worth of improvements to a Wetherspoons pub. Just another sad example of the sneering, snarky middle class establishment cess-pool who know nothing about the average Brit and wouldn't lift a finger to help them. Unlike Sir Tim . . .

@Londonfogey

6 күн бұрын

Shame on Jack Dee, he always seems a little bit removed from the mainstream establishment/regime comedians.

The book "Losing Your Country" is available free in ebook form from Amazon until July 3rd. Tim has the book!

I loved Tim Martin on Desert Island DIscs! great guy

@spudspuddy

25 күн бұрын

Did he choose baby shark and the wheels on the bus?

What a guy…..what a chain….best in class!

Always been a Spoon fan and admire the boss as an innovator but there appears to be two chains now. The old Spoons in market towns with excellent conversios and often rooms and a god awful load of urban pubs with noticeably worse food standards. As a rule of thumb, I avoid any Spoons in a shopping centre, city centre or railway station and its working so far.

Meeting in 'spoons Brighton marina for lunch tomorrow before sailing for Spain.

Always a good pint of ale at a great price what’s not to like !

Without tim and CAMRA..we'd all be drinking all the same beers made in burton on trent...under license..strong yes but its pop not beer..thanks tim..

Always seek out a 'spoonz' when having a day out and have visited many branches....was in one last night three meals with drinks £28.09...never had any real issues, you pretty much know what you get....

One total see you next tuesday.

Great Advert, Treated his staff so well through the Pandemic.

like his views on the game

20% of Wetherspoons pubs are fantastic in their own right and one must commend Tim Martin for some of the venues….., some are really spectacular 80% however are absolutely terrible and would be massively enhanced if there was sport and some music to give the place a bit of identity, even if it did add a little to costs. Tim Martin does also provide a service to the less well off problem drinkers across the country, in so far as they can consume their alcohol in a pub.

@user-pf3ye6yi9n

19 күн бұрын

The lack of sport and music is one of their biggest advantages. Unfortunately they are doing the Euros just now but most of the pubs are big enough and laid out in a way that means you can ignore it.

@grahamparker9470

7 күн бұрын

I agree don't want your music or sport just a good drink..like abbot's.. not 5% kids sparkling pop called larger😂

@user-pf3ye6yi9n

7 күн бұрын

@@grahamparker9470 One of the beer writers wrote a book a few years ago about the problems of the industry and what was being done about it. His conclusion was that the most successful theme for a pub was to be a traditional pub.

be in gatehouse tonight watching football well done tim

wetherspoons brilliant

I'm guessing Simon went to Verulam school I remember the rats castle.

i hear he selling up to into hotels wonder why maybe that meeting with boris heads up ?

don't close the george in wanstead! sign the petition!

Used to love wetherspoons but have a dog now so no go for me but I guess that suits alot of people.....oh well.

The new business model of wetherspoons is close pubs and force everybody into one small pub. Up the prices. Over the last 10 years, the quality of food has fallen while prices have rocketed. I don't eat wetherspoons food anymore. The chip portions are half the size and now cost £5 for a small plate. We have had two local wetherspoons close, and now a third one is about to close. It will soon be the only wetherspoons within a 4 mile. radius. This is in a highly dense area of London.

@GordonHouston-Smith

24 күн бұрын

Depends a lot on the councils😢

I like Tim Martin, but why does he sound stoned?

@korneyhebi5287

25 күн бұрын

His parents moved around a bit when he was a child and so his accent is mixed up apparently (or he’s stoned all the time 😅)

@spudspuddy

25 күн бұрын

window licking does that to their voices

Nothing on the table but a phone how disappointing

Wetherspoons seem to have taken their eye off the ball on food. I can hardly find anything to eat on the menu.

@GordonHouston-Smith

24 күн бұрын

No roast swan stuffed with widgeon?

@mr.145

24 күн бұрын

Hand reared venison,Jersey Pommes,Asparagus tips,in a Blairgowrie raspberry jus/ reduction, no, but the Pizzas are ok.

@yinoveryang4246

22 күн бұрын

It is because the cost of ingredients has shot through-the-roof after Brexit and other economic disasters. To keep their original pricing model relatively intact, they've had to simplify. They've focused on the traditional favourites. At all costs. I'm convinced that sometimes they must make a loss when they're throwing pints of Leffé into a meal deal.

@mr.145

22 күн бұрын

@@yinoveryang4246 sounds like a balanced diet..hic!🤣

WEATHERSPOONS PUBS WOULD BE EVEN BETTER IF THEY WERE DOG FRIENDLY!

Weatherspoons will not let a dog on the premises..

@astrecks

26 күн бұрын

Well, if you smarten yourself up a bit, they might let you in?

@StonefieldJim4

26 күн бұрын

@@astrecks 🤣

@simondjangothe4349

25 күн бұрын

@@astrecksoof!

@spudspuddy

25 күн бұрын

seen dogs at the tables outside, my neighbours sitting there all day with their dog

@GordonHouston-Smith

24 күн бұрын

Sadly so, but Tim has outlined his reasons which are fair enough.

He sacked his staff during covid.. no furlough bollocks, nice guy. 😢

It is getting dear in witherspoons, the prices keep going up and up and up, he is a greedy capitalist.

I really like Tim but I absolutely cannot stand Wetherpoons. I'll admit, the architecture of some of their venues is amazing, but as far as being 'pubs' go, they are completely soulless. The interior strikes me more as a canteen for boozing than aa nice place to sit and relax. If you ever catch me going to one, I always insist on sitting outside!

Spoons is hit and miss, for the consumer it’s cheap and cheerful, but for the staff doesn’t hold the best reputation

Hate Wetherspoons. Nothing nice about it any time

Brexit cheerleader now a Brexit crybaby.

@simondjangothe4349

25 күн бұрын

salty tears?

@spudspuddy

25 күн бұрын

Remoaners just can't get over it, keep crying while you do your call to prayer wailing

@ivanconnolly7332

23 күн бұрын

@@spudspuddy 5% loss of GDP is your loss not mine.

@paulhank7967

22 күн бұрын

Of course you're far more informed and intelligent than Tim. What a buffoon you are.

People knock Witherspoon's I personally use my local one and find it great,,I'm a chef and people say things ohh the curry is frozen,go into any cafe pub,restaurant most are batched cooked,frozen and reheated for the customer,same as chilli etc,,I enjoy the mixed grill,,not enough chips but that's me ,prices have risen in the last year but with a drink remain cheap,