Pub chain limits parents' drinks

[MrRobin]

Kids at pub lunches, absolutely fine. Kids in the pub up to certain hour (6pm i reckon) and with responsible parents not getting bladdered and keeping them under control, absolutely fine.

But the reality is the child friendly policy is often abused and patrons use the pub as a mock creche.

I understand your point GJ, but it's only Wetherspoons. The one is Weston is awful anyway.

[wobbegong]

Slightly hypocritical of Weatherspoons to try to curtail kids on their premeses, they're more than happy to serve drinks to 16 year olds on a Friday and Saturday night!

[gingerjedi]

I understand your point GJ, but it's only Wetherspoons. The one is Weston is awful anyway.

Yes 'The Dragon' is usually full stinky vagrants in for their 50p a pint fix.

I was once refused entry to a Wetherspoons down in Torquay as I was wearing an Italian football shirt, I was with my then girlfriend on sunny Sunday afternoon and the pub was dead but the barman said 'no football colours allowed'... I can understand it if I was wearing a Celtic top on the wrong side of Glasgow but FFS where's the common sense?

[DimPrawn]

Because anyone wearing a football shirt that isn't playing football is by definition a moron?

[gingerjedi]

Because anyone wearing a football shirt that isn't playing football is by definition a moron?

It was about 12 years ago, Italian club shirts were cool then... not now of course.

[cojak]

Hey - I'll have you know JDW is my dinner room on Tuesdays and Wednesdays...

[ratewhore]

Wetherspoons advertise being child friendly up until 8pm (ot thereabouts). They have family dining areas, childrens menus and colouring stuff etc. I take my kids to my local one regularly for breakfast at the weekends.

How they can then turn round and say they are uncomfortable with children on the premises is beyond me...

[shaunbhoy]

I am not too concerned about this ruling either way, although I would tend to agree that it has certain plus points to it. What concerns me more about JDW's is this ridiculous obsession they have with selling cheap coffee. It results in the places being brimfull of flocks of slow-moving aged wrinklies blocking the route to the bar and causing all of the bar staff to form their own queue behind the bar as they wait to get to the coffee machines.
FFS, if you want to drink coffee go to a fooking cafe, not a pub!!