Re: future earningsToday 09:20
What Americans used to do when car-manufacturing, and I suppose everybody else followed suit, was they would get their new-model prototype ready and on display, then the bean-counters would walk round it pointing things out and saying to the engineers ‘take a dollar out of there’ or ‘take a couple of dollars out of that’ meaning make the metal thinner there, or use ferrous instead of brass or copper here, or put a narrower tyre on, things like that. They might take out, say, a couple of hundred dollars before letting the model go into production. If they were planning on a production run of a hundred thousand units (cars), they had reduced costs by 20 million dollars just on this before the first car left the production line. In the end that reflected in profits and, hopefully, shareholder dividends.
We’ve got the bottles of Sarson’s vinegar and Heinz tomato sauce and brown sauce, all dear makes you might note, not the Branwell’s stuff from Aldi, all either on tables or in a rack so if you don’t like touching what somebody else has touched, you can help yourself to a new bottle. The difference between these bottles and the ones you buy in shops is that the JDW bottles have wings. And it’s flying out of the place, likewise handfuls of Tetley tea-bags, and the sugars. I bet the salad cream is getting a bashing now the better weather has arrived. Lately I’ve been informed by staff that someone was caught filling up a pint milk bottle at the drinks station.
The only things in racks that aren’t flying out are what you might term the Wetherspoon’s vanity publications. They resolutely stop where they are. Nobody reads them. That’s another thing for the bean-counters to look at. Oh yes, and the CAMRA beer bribe.
Get the profits up and you can put more staff on. That’s the worst thing about JDW’s, you sometimes are queuing to be served, because the staff are multi-tasking.
Adapt the drinks dispensers to take a metal token, which the bar staff give the customer along with the mug. One token, £1.50. Then the bums might return to their traditional haunts, the library or even the missions or the Cyrenians. Get free soup as well as tea there, and help to claim your benefits.
Don’t think that I don’t let the company know my views.