Originally Posted by I love Ellie:
“My experience of a Wetherspoons Curry Club evening, some years ago in Surbiton.
It was so popular, we couldn't get a table for 2 weeks. On the 3rd week, we managed to bag a table. Up to the bar we went, asked for the curry and we were told "Sorry, curry night's off this evening".
"Erm, why's that?" We asked.
"We've no rice" was the reply.
Now, I can understand a cancellation if they have no curries, but how easy is it to boil some rice!
At the time there were 3 major supermarkets within 2 minutes of the pub. If the manager had been on the ball, he'd have sent someone out to buy up as much rice as possible, boil it for 10 minutes and there you go, curry night is on.
Due to the manager being hard of thinking, a cancelled curry night meant the pub lost out on a lot of cash.
And we still didn't get our curry.”
“My experience of a Wetherspoons Curry Club evening, some years ago in Surbiton.
It was so popular, we couldn't get a table for 2 weeks. On the 3rd week, we managed to bag a table. Up to the bar we went, asked for the curry and we were told "Sorry, curry night's off this evening".
"Erm, why's that?" We asked.
"We've no rice" was the reply.
Now, I can understand a cancellation if they have no curries, but how easy is it to boil some rice!
At the time there were 3 major supermarkets within 2 minutes of the pub. If the manager had been on the ball, he'd have sent someone out to buy up as much rice as possible, boil it for 10 minutes and there you go, curry night is on.
Due to the manager being hard of thinking, a cancelled curry night meant the pub lost out on a lot of cash.
And we still didn't get our curry.”
The same thing happened to us in Portsmouth and a friend of mine said that about one in Fareham, seems to be quite widespread in the company, surely they would learn from it and have rice for their curry nights.



