Wetherspoon price hike

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I called into my local Wetherspoon today with HID for a libation. I ordered my usual cask ale and handed over my £1.99. Sorry Sir that isn't enough....oops Says I, Sorry how much is it? £2.45 mate. Gulp. Now I know £1.99 is a cracking price and we are lucky to get a pint for that compered to the likes of London but a flipping price hike of 44p per pint across the board is a bit steep even in the dark distant north. So much for the 1p off then.
 
Not been in one of those places for years, the last time I went I made the mistake of eating the food... Plastic would be a compliment to it!
 
Granted not to everyone's taste but the one we go in is very clean and a nice place to go. Super bar staff too. I cannot fault the ones in Leeds city center.
 
Surely 'Spoons are not trying to go upmarket? People only go there for the cheap beer. Some are OK but most are horrid. The one in Cambridge city centre is huge. Holds 1800 people and attracts all the chavs and other dregs of society.
 
They are ok. Usually got a deal on. Yes they do attract some "giro cashers" but I have also had some of the best evenings of my life in a Weatherspoon pub. I don't understand how they can hike that much on a beer though, especially with the 1p coming off in the Budget. Still I'd love to be paying £2.45 even in the clubhouse
 
I like ours. 10 hand pulled beers on and with my 50p a pint discount tokens from CAMRA, I can get a beer for £1.48 and it's usually pretty good too.
 
drawboy said:
I called into my local Wetherspoon today with HID for a libation. I ordered my usual cask ale and handed over my £1.99. Sorry Sir that isn't enough....oops Says I, Sorry how much is it? £2.45 mate. Gulp. Now I know £1.99 is a cracking price and we are lucky to get a pint for that compered to the likes of London but a flipping price hike of 44p per pint across the board is a bit steep even in the dark distant north. So much for the 1p off then.
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46p is even worse!
 
My local has just put the price down by a penny to £2.49 for Carling, the charity tins are no doubt jam packed with penny pieces, who can be bothered to carry the things?
 
To be fair the 3 local spoons to me are all very good. You get the odd giro casher during the day but generally speaking they're good places to go for an evening. 2 of them have late licences on weekend and have music with rammed dance floors. The food us generally pretty good to in them burger and a beer for a fiver ain't bad at all, especially when I consider I took HID to TGI's yesterday and cost me £30 for 2 burgers and 2 drinks!
 
My local ones are pretty decent but I don't go in them in the evenings.
Lunchtime is a bit like pensioners specials. Meal and a pint for about £6 food is not 5 star but what do you expect for that money.
Not many pubs in Scotland serve real ale which is a shame.
They all seem to stock gassy rubbish and the landlords are to lazy to deal with casks.
Changing slowly though.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
My local ones are pretty decent but I don't go in them in the evenings.
Lunchtime is a bit like pensioners specials. Meal and a pint for about £6 food is not 5 star but what do you expect for that money.
Not many pubs in Scotland serve real ale which is a shame.
They all seem to stock gassy rubbish and the landlords are to lazy to deal with casks.
Changing slowly though.
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And to be fair, spoons normally have 5 cask pumps on at any one time and even a beer festival when they have been known to have 21 real ales on at a time
 
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