A WETHERSPOONS superfan has revealed why he believes the pub chain is getting worse.
Tim Clarke, 66, has visited 240 completely different pubs since starting his UK-wide tour of refillable coffees or pints of beer alongside his spouse in 2018.
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The Asda supply driver collects a menu from every pub as proof of his go to, writing the date and results of his beloved Nottingham Forest if they’re enjoying on the identical day.
His go-to meal is the standard giant breakfast, for which £5 will get him a sausage, two hash browns, fried egg, bacon, slice of toast and butter.
Tim retains the menus in two folders and every is fastidiously ordered alphabetically in case his grandchildren resolve to have a look at them at some point.
However he has observed adjustments to the pub chain over the past 5 years.
The grandfather informed The Mirror that its “costs have gone up and also you get much less meals”, whereas it has additionally closed down plenty of its websites.
He added: “Again within the outdated days, you used to get actually large helpings. However I assume that is the identical with all over the place now.”
Tim has additionally known as for Wetherspoons to introduce a passport that may be stamped to permit individuals “to know the place the pubs are”.
There are at the moment 826 Wetherspoons pubs within the UK and Tim is now hoping to buy a campervan so he and his spouse can tick extra websites off the record.
He has already lined each one of many chain’s venues in Nottingham, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.
And he says the will to go to the pubs means he has travelled to cities he in any other case would by no means have gone to.
However his feedback come because the pub chain has closed a number of extra pubs or taken them off the market, with 25 remaining up on the market.
The Billiard Corridor in West Bromwich closed on Might 21, whereas the Final Submit in Loughton shut on Might 14.
The Financial institution Home in Cheltenham was taken off the market this month. and the Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis in Southampton closed final week.
Greater than half a dozen additionally closed final 12 months.
