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[the white house] 13/12/2019 18:36

5 years, you are still deluded...With Labour 140 behind, a boundary change to lose a few dozen small red seats to come, lose Scotland's 50 SNP seats & Sir Boris can rule for 5O years...

[johnwise] 13/12/2019 18:28

I dont trust Boris to deliver a hard, no deal Brexit. He will deliver Theresa Mays deal, which isnt Brexit at all. Boris has a Remainer family, a Remainer girlfriend and was a Remainer until 2016. We will start to see the real Johnson now!

[johnwise] 13/12/2019 09:34

Corbyn Nation wrecking Communists have been crushed. Perfect, love it Tory for another 5 years. Looking forward to continuing with more food banks, longer waiting time at A&R, zero hour work contracts, pothole roads and uncontrolled immigration ..

[sarkasm] 10/12/2019 09:29

BBC


The firm plans about 60 new pubs, and at least four new hotels.

The jobs that will be created will be a mixture of pub management, bar staff, kitchen staff, and others. It will be a mixture of full time and part time roles.

[kinwah] 10/12/2019 09:27

It's not good news if you own a pub in one of these small towns that is suddenly going to get a Wetherspoons. I was in the Coalville Spoons a few months ago. Huge pub with typical excellent offering. Just impossible to compete against.

[luderitz] 10/12/2019 09:19

How many are part-time jobs though.

[11_percent] 10/12/2019 09:16

Market does not like it.....

[johnwise] 10/12/2019 08:59

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"The fact that Wetherspoon will be creating approximately 10,000 jobs is great news."

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[sarkasm] 10/12/2019 08:51

RNS Number : 2750W

Wetherspoon (JD) PLC

10 December 2019

For immediate release

J D Wetherspoon plc (the "Company")

Wetherspoon is to invest more than GBP200 million on its pub estate over the next four years.

It will invest the money developing new pubs and hotels as well as enlarging its existing pubs across the UK and Republic of Ireland.

The company anticipates that the investment will result in approximately 10,000 new jobs.

The majority of the investment will be channelled into developments in small and medium sized towns, but will also include larger towns and cities.

These are set to include new pubs in Bourne, Waterford, Hamilton, Ely, Diss, Felixstowe, Newport Pagnell and Prestatyn.

It will also be investing in major cities including London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds and Galway.

Wetherspoon founder and chairman Tim Martin said: "We are looking forward to opening many more new pubs as well as investing in existing pubs over the next four years.

"We are especially pleased that a large proportion of the investment will be in smaller towns and cities which have seen a decline in investment in recent years.

"The fact that we will be creating approximately 10,000 jobs is great news too."

Wetherspoon operates 875 pubs and 58 hotels across the UK and Republic of Ireland and employs 44,000 staff.

10(th) December 2019

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[sarkasm] 10/12/2019 08:50

Wetherspoons to serve up 10,000 new jobs in £200m investment

PA
Dec 10th 2019 2:45AM

Wetherspoons is to invest more than £200 million in pubs and hotels over the next four years, creating around 10,000 jobs, the company has announced.

New pubs and hotels will be opened, and existing pubs across the UK and Republic of Ireland will be enlarged.

Most of the investment will be channelled into developments in small and medium-sized towns, but will also include larger towns and cities.

These are set to include new pubs in Bourne in Lincolnshire; Waterford in Ireland; Hamilton in Scotland; Ely in Cambridgeshire; Diss in Norfolk; Felixstowe in Suffolk; Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire; and Prestatyn in North Wales.
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Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin (Jonathan Brady/PA)

It will also be investing in major cities including London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Leeds and Galway.

Wetherspoons founder and chairman Tim Martin said: “We are looking forward to opening many more new pubs as well as investing in existing pubs over the next four years.

“We are especially pleased that a large proportion of the investment will be in smaller towns and cities which have seen a decline in investment in recent years.

“The fact that we will be creating approximately 10,000 jobs is great news too.”

Wetherspoons operates 875 pubs and 58 hotels across the UK and Republic of Ireland and employs 44,000 staff.

[johnwise] 07/12/2019 17:43

The Tories could never win in the seats that the Brexit party are standing in.. Nigel agreed to stand down where the Tories can win but the Tories haven't reciprocated. Shameful. We NEED the Brexit party to win a number of these seats so they can hold Boris to his word on the deal, No Deal and not his Mrs Mays deal. If you are in one of the 60 areas where the Brexit Party are standing then vote for them.

[ignoble] 30/11/2019 08:10

Must admit that I agree.
Customer Service is a priority to deciding where I choose to spend my dosh
Get it wrong and I don't go back..

[johnwise] 30/11/2019 08:01

The standards of the Toby Carvery is of a much variable quality: being sometimes good and sometimes not so, the days of a guaranteed high standard quality seem to have gone; much the same as the high turnover of management and staff; with the taking-on You just can't get the staff these days..

[ignoble] 28/11/2019 17:54

My son and his chum have found that Toby Carvery do an all you can eat breakfast for £4.39 plus you can go back for more.
Seems their new port of call if they want a big breakfast.

[standish11] 24/11/2019 11:04

Interesting snippet from today’s Sunday Telegraph:-

Also worth noting is Wetherspoon’s foray into the hotel world, in most cases letting rooms over its pubs. The group still takes more money from slot machines than it does from overnight stays in its 1,200 rooms but it is getting noticed. Last month it shocked some of its sniffy competitors by coming joint top in the annual hotel poll conducted by consumer watchdog Which?

A further contributor to value has been the gradual conversion of leaseholds into freeholds where possible. Over the past decade the proportion of freeholds has increased from 40pc to about 60pc of the pub estate.

The shares remain the most expensive in the sector but it should be noted that Wetherspoon’s cash flows are above average too. Buyers casting around for the next pub chain to take private might not have given the group, in which Martin retains a 32pc stake, a second look. But the founder turns 65 next year, so who knows?

[the white house] 13/11/2019 10:35

Big Tim is a legend, should be a Sir by now...Brilliant strategy of heading towards a freehold owned state.Closing the worst 4 or 10 pubs every year is exactly what all the other restaurant/bars fail to do and then they go bust. The number crunchers come in and say well x are profitable and y are not. So why weren't they shut earlier like Big Tim does. After shutting a few dozen over the just couple of years, every venue could well be profitable, amazingIreland is booming also, but don't tell anyone...

[nigelbarker] 13/11/2019 09:33

good statement great comments

[ignoble] 12/11/2019 09:34

I wish that they would sort out modern highlights that are blinding ...
Ruddy dangerous imho

[johnwise] 12/11/2019 09:18

If you vote for the Boris Tory EU surrender deal then expect more of this.

[the white house] 11/11/2019 15:28

Strong today....

[grupo guitarlumber] 09/11/2019 21:01

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The Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of J D Wetherspoon PLC will take place at 10:00am on Thursday 21(st) November 2019 at The Auditorium, Willis Towers Watson, 51 Lime St, London , EC3M 7DQ.

[luderitz] 07/11/2019 22:39

Best of luck with that then.

[johnwise] 07/11/2019 13:07

Tory policy on brexit, talk tough then capitulate. When found out, change leader, talk tough then capitulate, no deal off the table. Farage is the only one to trust. The only one who will deliver the referendum result. The rest will just get your vote and then ignore you, as they always do. We heard this 'wasted vote', 'will let Corbyn in' scaremongering at the last election. We gave the Tories the benefit of the doubt and look where it got us. Never again, my vote goes to Farage's Brexit Party

[johnwise] 03/11/2019 06:55

Percent voting to leave the EU

[johnwise] 02/11/2019 22:55

For over three years the majority of the establishment Tory party MPs have been flat out delaying and more to their aim trying to completely cancel our leaving the EU, and in doing so they have used every undemocratic deception they could come up with. Then having broken each and every promise they ever made, they are once again blatantly asking you to forget all that and trust them and put them back into power again. So in reality, vote Tory and your guaranteed to get more of the same.