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It's quite feasible their main clientele will happily ignore bar staff going unpaid for a cheap pint (although not all judging by the backlash) but once it ripples out into suppliers and supply chain. That's a hell of a lot more families going to feel a wobble from a bloke worth tens of millions not paying out his dues.
In the main many small businesses might well go to the wall this year, but how many big casualties will go too? Could well be that the truest parallel with this WW2 nostalgia will be the appetite for social change afterward?
I wonder if Wetherspoons will ever recover from this? on 18:39 - Mar 25 by Lord_Lucan
To be fair, if you are in no mans land after an all nighter they can come in handy.
I must say I agree and am struggling to find too much fault in this.
I've never had the opportunity to visit one deliberately myself, but there was a time I would catch the night ferry to Zeebrugge and whilst waiting about there early doors there were only pubs open when we got there. I liked the 24 hour opening concept and at 7 in the morning that's what we'd be doing.
I wonder if Wetherspoons will ever recover from this? on 16:55 - Mar 25 by hoppy
I'm hoping mine is not one of those small businesses you mention at the moment... I've had two clients that I've already done work for that can't now pay due to the fact they've had to suspend operations or cancel shows (Travel/sightseeing and entertainment sectors), worth almost 2 grand of work done so far, with the jobs not finished yet - potentially just on hold, but also possibly never too be completed if they go out of business themselves. That's a big hit to a small business, even if it's not a lot to bigger ones.
I hope not mate. I've got a few mates in your position.
Our gym asked if we could still pay fees or it'd go under. I've no idea how many lads managed it, or will manage it as this goes on as many are self-employed and on the tools, but lots of places were still training out of fear of losing their business rather than forego people getting ill around the country.
I imagine lots of places have flouted rules and been hit with unexpected cashflow issues that are being felt in places all over.
I wonder if Wetherspoons will ever recover from this? on 18:03 - Mar 25 by GeoffSentence
I had breakfast in a Wetherspoons in York.
Fwck me, there really were people in there having beer for breakfast.
not everyone works regular office hours, people coming off a night shift, or have worked an early day shift often pop into pubs for a drink before going home, just because its your normal breakfast time doesnt mean you should assume why people are there at that time.
I wonder if Wetherspoons will ever recover from this? on 18:03 - Mar 25 by GeoffSentence
I had breakfast in a Wetherspoons in York.
Fwck me, there really were people in there having beer for breakfast.
We used to hold office breakfast meetings in The Figure of Eight Wetherspoons in Broad Street, Brum. It was cheap to book and they served big jugs of Bloody Mary and pints at 7.30am.
No-one in our lot partook, but plenty of other corporate company staff did. One from a well-known recruitment agency even stayed in there til lunchtime.....
I wonder if Wetherspoons will ever recover from this? on 20:10 - Mar 25 by Warkystache
We used to hold office breakfast meetings in The Figure of Eight Wetherspoons in Broad Street, Brum. It was cheap to book and they served big jugs of Bloody Mary and pints at 7.30am.
No-one in our lot partook, but plenty of other corporate company staff did. One from a well-known recruitment agency even stayed in there til lunchtime.....
As Spoons go that's not a bad boozer.
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