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A Wetherspoon pub (now closed) featuring the face of chain founder Tim Martin on its sign. - Alex Davidson/Getty Images Unlike most chains, Wetherspoons don’t merely trade on their dependability ...
J D Wetherspoon (branded variously as Wetherspoon or Wetherspoons, and colloquially known as Spoons) is a pub company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company was founded in 1979 by Tim Martin and is based in Watford. It operates the sub-brand of Lloyds No.1 bars, and 56 Wetherspoon hotels. [3]
Name Image Location Named after The Sir John Baker Portsmouth 50°48′56″N 1°4′46″W: John Baker [2]: The Bright Water Inn Southampton 50°55′11″N 1°25′50″W
The pub is 8,800 square feet (820 m 2) and can hold 1,700 customers. [2] 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]
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It was purchased by Wetherspoons in 2000; it was restored as much as possible into its original condition, in accordance with planning permission, and was opened as a theme pub in August 2001. There was restoration of the exterior in 2012–13. [2] [3] [4]
The Royal Hop Pole is a listed pub in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. Located on Church Street, it is an English Heritage hotel. [2] It has recently been converted into a part of the Wetherspoons pub chain. It is famous for being mentioned in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers.
In 2012 Michigan's 120 brewing establishments (including breweries, brewpubs, importers, and company-owned packagers and wholesalers) employed 595 people directly, and more than 36,000 others in related jobs such as wholesaling and retailing. [1] Altogether, 140 people in Michigan had active brewer permits in 2012. [2]