The prices have to be as low as they can get them so you look past the fact that someone pooed on the bathroom floor during your visit, otherwise nobody would ever eat there
Whetherspoons tend to increase/decrease prices exactly according to various tax changes.
Most pubs/restaurants will usually change prices every so often and by round figures.
The days of 3 for £10 are long gone I see 🙁
The prices will vary based on location, an inner city location will be more than a spoons that is in a smaller town or location.
Except in this example where the cheesy chips are 9p less, but everything else seems more! must be in a location where cheese is cheap
My personal totally unhinged conspiracy theory is that it’s done on purpose to make it harder to mentally total up and compare, (bear in mind this is a ‘spoons, when I say harder mentally)
Where’s the 3 for £10???
3 for £17.47
I think here where I am its 3 for £14 which is better. £14 is still specific but at least it’s a whole number.
all pricing is specific.
1.80 is just as specific as 1.87
Wow. Where I am its 3 plates for £13.50.
Fuck off, Spoons, three for a tenner was a bargain.
This is like when the Greggs sausage and bean was no longer £1.15
I remember when that was 3 plates for 9.99. Crazy how much that has risen!
who would pay this for 3 small plates when a main meal with drink is so much cheaper?
Your spoons is more expensive than my spoons. Ours is “any 3 for £14.93”
Marketing technique.
Same thing as the hole ‘£9.99 is way cheaper then £10’
Hang on, it was 3 fir £14.44 a few weeks ago. Where was that one London?
Seen on an episode of QI a while back, Stuff is priced like this so that the employees have to go into the till for change and can’t easily pocket the cash
Is that King and Castle in Windsor? The prices are marked up in there. Down the road in Slough its 3 for £14.95. It was 3 for small plates for a tenner 6 years ago.
Their pricing is likely their cost x a markup, as opposed to doing that then rounding it to a specific figure
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They cut the price of everything by exactly 7.5% in 2023, in line with tax reductions for the hospitality industry.
Source:h ttps://www.jdwetherspoon.com/news/2023/08/tax-equality?page=3&y=0&c=%2c&i=10
Well, they have specific needs.
Aren’t all prices specific?
Why wouldn’t they be specific?
I prefer pricing like this, it shows there has been some thought going into it.
Never noticed this but as I’m sat in spoons now I’ve had to check and yes, weirdly specific
[https://imgur.com/a/ckK00yI](https://imgur.com/a/ckK00yI)
The prices have to be as low as they can get them so you look past the fact that someone pooed on the bathroom floor during your visit, otherwise nobody would ever eat there
Whetherspoons tend to increase/decrease prices exactly according to various tax changes.
Most pubs/restaurants will usually change prices every so often and by round figures.
The days of 3 for £10 are long gone I see 🙁
The prices will vary based on location, an inner city location will be more than a spoons that is in a smaller town or location.
Except in this example where the cheesy chips are 9p less, but everything else seems more! must be in a location where cheese is cheap
My personal totally unhinged conspiracy theory is that it’s done on purpose to make it harder to mentally total up and compare, (bear in mind this is a ‘spoons, when I say harder mentally)
Where’s the 3 for £10???
3 for £17.47
I think here where I am its 3 for £14 which is better. £14 is still specific but at least it’s a whole number.
all pricing is specific.
1.80 is just as specific as 1.87
Wow. Where I am its 3 plates for £13.50.
Fuck off, Spoons, three for a tenner was a bargain.
This is like when the Greggs sausage and bean was no longer £1.15
I remember when that was 3 plates for 9.99. Crazy how much that has risen!
who would pay this for 3 small plates when a main meal with drink is so much cheaper?
Food pricing is about the only interesting thing about Wetherspoons – here’s a fun FT article about it: [https://www.ft.com/content/acf3d457-c787-3a51-b265-cb607c7e2ecb](https://www.ft.com/content/acf3d457-c787-3a51-b265-cb607c7e2ecb)
Tax, probably
Your spoons is more expensive than my spoons. Ours is “any 3 for £14.93”
Marketing technique.
Same thing as the hole ‘£9.99 is way cheaper then £10’
Hang on, it was 3 fir £14.44 a few weeks ago. Where was that one London?
Seen on an episode of QI a while back, Stuff is priced like this so that the employees have to go into the till for change and can’t easily pocket the cash
https://youtu.be/z-0E0bOADXk?si=KYZFx4FgRYJujVJq
Is that King and Castle in Windsor? The prices are marked up in there. Down the road in Slough its 3 for £14.95. It was 3 for small plates for a tenner 6 years ago.
Their pricing is likely their cost x a markup, as opposed to doing that then rounding it to a specific figure