Although
many British people are now beginning to realise that they were sold a pup with
'Brexit', Tim Martin, the C.E.O. of J
D. Wetherspoon, was utterly convinced that the country would be better off if
we left the E.U. He seemed to see Brexit as kind of panacea that would
cure Britain’s many economic problems.
Before the 2016 referendum, if you were a customer of J.D. Wetherspoon, you got Brexit rammed down your throat, it was even on the beer mats, and Wetherspoon customers were paying for all that. I doubt that the beer baron, who was brought up in New Zealand, writes his own copy, but his name was on it. Understandably, as a wealthy businessman, Tim Martin is more concerned with what is in the interests of his company and its shareholders, than what is in the interest of the country. He's not running a benevolent society or a charity. He's in business to make money. I stopped reading the pub magazine a long time ago, because I got tired of hearing about Brexit.
Tim Martin says that he wants tax parity with supermarkets when it comes to alcohol pricing, but if prices continue to spiral in Weatherspoon’s as they are doing, the company is going to drive many more of its customers into the supermarkets. It would be a pity if this did happen, because Weatherspoon’s is one of the biggest sellers of hand pumped cask beers in the country and I have never had a bad pint. The cask beers and the discounts early in the week, along with the beer festivals, are what draw many customers into Weatherspoon’s. The pubs are generally warm and there are free refills of tea and coffee along with free Wi-Fi. Another attraction is that there's no music but there is TV.
A lot of Wetherspoon customers are still far from happy that meals like mixed grills, 8-ounce sirloin steaks and gammon steaks were taken off the menu. They were told this was done to save money. Anything that you can get your teeth into, has now been removed from the menu and replaced with overpriced beef burgers.
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