Wetherspoons In Cork

Reputable Rog wrote: »

Here right now and it's out the door. Big differences between upstairs and downstairs, diwnstairs all Irish staff and the service is excellent, upstairs all UK and the service is brutal.
Downstairs everything available except Corvus, upstairs Ghostship only one available.
So far have had a Doombar, Bengali tiger and a ghost ship. All very good.
Hard to believe I've only parted with €8.25, my pack of Superking Menthols dwarfs my drink spend.

are you still there? having a staropramen wearing the England alternative European 7s rugby jersey.

Milly33 wrote: »

really have you gone through the staff and asked them are they English or Irish.. I really thought people were over this crap..

Mad to get in there to see the place maybe next weekend... Sick of listening to 96fm and your man going on and on about the place as if they are stealing all the money from the other pubs muppets

I didn't mean it as an Irish- English thing.
What I meant is UK type service v Irish service.
The staff upstairs were Scottish if you wish to define them further, they were pretty poor, one of them didn't know what ales they actually had, initially telling me they only had Ghost Ship, by some miracle they also had Doombar and Shipyard when I asked later on, same barmaid had to be shown how to use the cask pump.

sorry still don't see why you have to compare like that... They are either good staff or crap staff. You can paint people like that...

I went there for the “Sunday Roast” menu.

They were out of Turkey , chicken and the lamb. Only meat option left was beef.

This was only about 4 o Clock.

Not a drop of ale left upstairs either.

I think they underestimated how hungry/thirsty us Cork folk get :pac:

Would have thought the same for most pubs here, not very often you would get a place doing a late roast dinner on a Sunday

Douglas Eegit wrote: »

Standard for a UK pub.
Roast will run out. Get in early, no hanging around. I have accepted it at this stage that if i go for a roast after 3pm I'll be lucky to get an option.

The roast menu is till 11 pm in spoons, not like your average pub where it finishes early.

We were there on sat night 13.75 for the round of 4 drinks whereas the round cost nearly 21 in electric so i hope they do force others to look hard at their prices.

gimmick wrote: »

Been open 3 weeks now. How much longer do the staff need to "learn"?

They also get 12 weeks training in advance so I'm not sure why these issues exist at this point. Very annoying though it won't stop me going in there

Ludo wrote: »

The mainland?

Might want to check his location.

Ludo wrote: »

The mainland?

:pac::):):):D

Faith wrote: »

They do it to cut costs. Experienced bar staff cost more, so they specifically hire people with no experience and train them.

Makes sense, so the pints are 1/3 cheaper and the service is poorer and the consumer decides at the end of the Day.

clerk wrote: »

Makes sense, so the pints are 1/3 cheaper and the service is poorer and the consumer decides at the end of the Day.

You'll find most of the pubs will have one or two experienced guys brought in ("from the mainland") lol - Wetherspoons have a floating pool of experienced new start managers that stay for a couple of months and then move on after training to setup another pub. To be honest, I have no prob with new staff providing they're open and ask questions rather than bluff it out

Went in for some food and a pint. Curry was grand. Really for €10 with a pint I couldn't fault it at all. I'd prefer a bit of music but the place was hopping.

MrMac84 wrote: »

Thats the one. Staying across the road so it's been our base. It says witherspoons on the menus but I noticed the llyods logo on the tvs

Its a concept aimed at the younger market, with music and late licences. JDW think of everything.

Reputable Rog wrote: »

Its a concept aimed at the younger market, with music and late licences. JDW think of everything.

if you venture up the street you will find the prince of wales and the gatekeeper wetherspoons as well

Went in this evening for my 3rd visit and won't be returning again. I commented on my first visit earlier on in the thread, was reasonably happy with my experience although there were some teething problems. My second visit was much better so was confident in my decision to go there for dinner tonight.

A bit of back story is necessary for this one. My younger brother (aged 18) is in 6th year. I (mid 20's) no longer live at home and rarely get a chance to catch up with him so its a Thursday ritual for us to get some dinner together every Thursday when I finish work at 6:30pm.

We chose Wetherspoons this week for a change. He was obviously still in his school uniform (not that it matters, but its a smart uniform that includes a blazer) and I was dressed smartly in jeans and boots. At 6:45pm on a Thursday evening, we were stopped going in because "no school uniforms". I would understand entirely if this was a standard pub, but it isn't, its a bar and restaurant. I explained that we were just going for a bite to eat and that my brother was over 18, and could provide ID if necessary. The doorman begrudgingly after 5 more minutes of promising we were just getting some food, said we could go in, but we had to be gone by 8pm.

At that point, I no longer wanted to give them by business after the way we were spoken to. We made our way to SoHo where we were served without issue or any question of ID. Some of our other usual Thursday spots also have bars (namely Brick Lane, Sober Lane, and SoHo amongst others) and never before has my uniform clad brother been stopped or so much as asked for ID so early in the evening, because its obviously dinner time and we aren't ordering alcohol anyway.

It has completely put me off returning and I was keen to give the place a chance as earlier stated in the thread. I would understand if it was just a pub but when they are serving food, it doesn't give the best first impression to be ID'd at dinner time when we weren't going to be drinking anyway.

I heard a similar story from a customer in work last week but I thought perhaps she was dramatizing it. She said she and two friends tried to go in for dinner at around 7pm and weren't allowed because they didn't have ID, but all 3 were driving and weren't going to drink anyway.

I understand their prices would attract underagers but frankly, to be stopped going into an establishment that serves food at dinner time because they don't want school aged people in there is a joke. They should ID at the counter when the customer tries to order a drink, not at the front door.

I've never been stopped going in anywhere in my life and it was mortifying! For all the bad press doorstaff in Cork yet, I can't believe my first refusal was at dinner time in Wetherspoons. Will not be returning or recommending. They shouldn't advertise themselves as a restaurant if they are going to exclude a portion of their consumers simply for wearing a uniform.

Munster, nowhere in that post does it say that the young man didn't have id. It seems to me that it was purely the uniform that was the issue.

While it is, of course, illegal to serve alcohol to someone underage, be it in a off licence or bar, children of any age are legally permitted in a pub up until 9pm and, I think, even later if a meal is served.

They weren't following the law here, it was some strange company policy which they only half apply.

I really don't see the issue.
I thought that weatherspoons encouraged families.
If they allow children in the bar what difference does it make if they're in school uniform or not?
Especially when you consider that the person in question was
(a) over 18
(b) not drinking
(c) accompanied by an adult not in school uniform