This massive UK pub chain is now actively searching for premises in Taipei and Kaoshung.
Looking good for cheap beer without loud music.
I’m still crossing my fingers for Marks and Spencers and Stringfellows
If they do make it here, and KEEP to the UKformat, then it will be good news, but will it attract enough customers in said format, or will it have to change to stay afloat
[quote=“Betel”]This massive UK pub chain is now actively searching for premises in Taipei and Kaoshung (Gaoxiong).
Looking good for cheap beer without loud music.[/quote]
Great!
What’s so special about Wetherspoons pubs? They sell beer. Big deal.
Nothing. But they are cheap and screw all competitors.
Brilliant! Depressed looking old men chewing on a pint of beer for hours on end in huge atmosephereless ‘pubs’.
I enjoy a cheap beer as much as the next person but the standardised pub chain idea is terrible. (ie Slug and Lettuce, Pitcher and Piano, Yates). Yes you know what to expect when you walk in (fights usually in Yates) but where’s the fun in that? I’d far prefer to go to a bar where even if it’s a part of a larger group (brewery, pub company) the landlord can use his or her creativity to create a pub that works for the people who drink there (or the cleintele that the they want to attract) in my experience wheatherspoons and other such highly branded pubs don’t allow for this therefore creating exceptionally predictable mundane experiences.
Still, if wheatherspoons get a toe in the door there’ll probably be one on the top of Yangminshan by the end of next year…