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Wetherspoon's low-price food and drink offering is aimed at the mass market. A large standardised menu is available all day in every pub, cultivating a perception of "unpretentious good value". [7] Wetherspoons claims to be "the only large pub firm which opens all its pubs early in the morning", serving breakfast and coffee. [25]
The pub chain said like-for-like sales dropped 1.1% in the five weeks to November 6 when compared with pre-pandemic trading in 2019.
In 2000, under Martin's leadership, Wetherspoons opened its 400th location and by 2008 the number had increased to 800 Wetherspoons locations. [citation needed] In 2005, Martin was voted the fifth most influential person in the UK pub industry. [11] He is an admirer of Sam Walton's business philosophy. [12]
It is owned by the pub chain JD Wetherspoon who opened it on 15 August 1995, and named it after George Orwell's 1946 essay, "The Moon Under Water", describing his ideal pub. [3] It is one of 15 Wetherspoon pubs with the same name. [2] [4]
John Witherspoon (né Weatherspoon; January 27, 1942 – October 29, 2019) was an American actor and comedian who performed in various television shows and films. [1] He played Willie Jones in the Friday series, [1] and starred in films such as Hollywood Shuffle (1987), Boomerang (1992), The Five Heartbeats (1991), and Vampire in Brooklyn (1995). [1]
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the best known print in the series (20th century reprint). Mount Fuji is in the center distance. Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji ( Japanese : 富嶽三十六景 , Hepburn : Fugaku Sanjūrokkei ) is a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai (1760–1849).
Witherspoon at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Reese Witherspoon is an American actress. She made her acting debut in The Man in the Moon (1991). After featuring in the Disney production A Far Off Place (1993), she starred as a violent youth in Freeway (1996).
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling nonfiction books, in the combined print and e-books category. [54] The most frequent weekly best seller of the year was Becoming by Michelle Obama with 15 weeks at the top of the list; it was also a best seller for the last five weeks in 2018.