Man your pumps, Wetherspoons are coming

What's the criac like in the one on Abbey street ?

Will be in Dublin for a gig Saturday night and will have an hour or so to burn before the rest of the lads arrive.

Is it a decent spot to pop in for a few pints on your own or am I better heading off somewhere else and coming back with the lads

piplip87 wrote: »

What's the criac like in the one on Abbey street ?

Will be in Dublin for a gig Saturday night and will have an hour or so to burn before the rest of the lads arrive.

Is it a decent spot to pop in for a few pints on your own or am I better heading off somewhere else and coming back with the lads

Download the app onto your phone, head upstairs and you wont have to leave your table

slayerking wrote: »

Unfortunately they haven't managed to get the toilet onto the app yet, so you still need to get up from time to time.

Thats what the empties are for.....duh....:pac:

A mate of mine worked as a bouncer in the Silver Penny, had a big wound on his face the other day. It's a very rough pub alright.

piplip87 wrote: »

What's the criac like in the one on Abbey street ?

Will be in Dublin for a gig Saturday night and will have an hour or so to burn before the rest of the lads arrive.

Is it a decent spot to pop in for a few pints on your own or am I better heading off somewhere else and coming back with the lads

You're not going to find a seat on saturday night especially not if theres a big concert on.

I cant read the article because paywall.

But it seems like they want to 'colonize' the Republic with wetherspoons in every town. I wonder what this will mean for the local pubs and with it the Trad music scene (which is not really a big thing in Dublin but out west it's a different story).

I mean of course Diageo should allow locals to charge less for their pints, it's not a one-way street. But still.

machaseh wrote: »

I cant read the article because paywall.

But it seems like they want to 'colonize' the Republic with wetherspoons in every town. I wonder what this will mean for the local pubs and with it the Trad music scene (which is not really a big thing in Dublin but out west it's a different story).

I mean of course Diageo should allow locals to charge less for their pints, it's not a one-way street. But still.

That's not going to happen.

The 200 additional figure is for the entire chain, the bulk of which is in the UK. If they get to 20 in Ireland within five years I'd be surprised.

They're here 5 and a half years, and have all of 7 open + 4 in some stage of progress (that we're aware of - but there won't be many more hidden ones)

odyssey06 wrote: »

Not sure how realistic these figures and timelines are - but it was in today's Indo...
BRITISH pub group Wetherspoons is targeting cities including Dublin and Galway as part of a £200m (€238m) plan to open between 50 and 60 new outlets over the next four years.
https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/british-pub-chain-wetherspoons-plans-between-50-and-60-more-pubs-here-38773244.html

Seems to be just a generic press release saying that they plan 60 in the UK and Ireland might get one or two more out of that figure. Opening 60 over 4 years seems ambitious, thats more than 1 new pub a month. I'd think hey would need more than 15 fit out teams to be over lapping each other to achieve something like that. Its probably just Tim Martin bigging things up in the hope of selling more shares.

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

How is carlow doing now?

Was in it over the summer with the good lady wife

Was surprised how empty and quiet it was for a sat night.

Nearly hoping there would be background music as the silence was a bit awkward.

Group of lonely sad looking 40 + types at bar

Then a crowd of college students came in all at once, had double shots and cocktails and left.

Wife was not impressed. Food was only ok. Pizza was very poor considering it was a sit down venue.

I live near blessington and wouldn’t be rushing back.

I couldn't really tell you as i haven't been back in. I get out so infrequently (once a month at best !), that I prefer to go to a decent boozer when I do manage to go out for a few.

I do know that they've barred a lot of the more troublesome crowd and have changed things up on the food front and seemingly it has improved. Having saying that, you'd still notice people that work on Tullow street having their lunch in Tullys or Brooks rather than JDW.

I'd drive past it most evenings on my way home from work and it looks pretty empty inside.

Personally I'd be happy to use it as a starting point on a night out, but none of my mates are interested. It's struggling to shake the bad rep it got when it first opened.

Was in the on on Abbey Street for a pint last weekend. Awful. It was so bright with all of the lights on and the lack of music made it feel so weird. Won't be going back.

no idea where this rebound is going to come from because he is losing vast amounts of revenue in the UK. and they will spend 200Mill + from where ??

listermint wrote: »

no idea where this rebound is going to come from because he is losing vast amounts of revenue in the UK. and they will spend 200Mill + from where ??

https://www.jdwetherspoon.com/investors-home/reports-results-presentations


Losing revenue?

Current trading
For the 13 weeks to 27 October 2019, like-for-like sales increased by 5.3% and total sales by 5.6%

Just for clarity sake I was pm'd on my statement.


Profits are down across the board in Witherspoon even with revenue up.

As I said they are losing money. The spin thrown at it is spin.

listermint wrote: »

Just for clarity sake I was pm'd on my statement.


Profits are down across the board in Witherspoon even with revenue up.

As I said they are losing money. The spin thrown at it is spin.

Here is the profit before tax and exceptional items:


2000 = 36m
2005 = 47m
2010 = 71m
2015 = 77.8m

2016 = 80.6m
2017 = 102.8m
2018 = 107.25
2019 = 102.46

They are not "losing money".

Their profit growth has slowed down.

Profits have fallen slightly, yes, as costs have been rising.