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[bubble]

stig,  don't think that is true of every SS pub,

[mark5046]

hi i used to eat on a reguler basis in the vine in dunham massey i moved away for a while and drove over 50 miles to be served frosen ping ding crap thanks to the new food mangers of sams smiths how do you think a pub in the middle of nowhere is going to hit targets whit rubbish food

[jboycott]

There aren't many food outlets where you can see the food being prepared, in fact you can't see the food you buy in the supermarket being "prepared". Apparently they enjoyed their meal and will come back for more if they want to.

[stig]

PROBABLY BECAUSE IF PEOPLE SAW WHAT WENT ON IN A SAM SMITHS KITCHEN THEY WOULD BE OUT THE DOOR FASTER THAN SPEEDY GONZALEZ!!!!

[southener]

because the pub in question used to serve high quality meals and had a good reputation . now nobody apart from those too stupid will eat there

[jboycott]

why?

[southener]

I was in a SS pub in York and was sitting in view of the "kitchen", where the "chef" was preparing meals  for 4 (obviously) foreign visitors
Chef could have done with extra arms to operate the bank of microwavw ovens, one for each dish, basically
The most comples meal was (guess what ?) beefburger and chips with salad
This required several skills:
1) read the timer setting required for the pre-cooked frozen burger
2) ditto for the already cooked frozen chips (at least there was no fryer smell)
3) defrost breadcake
4) pour samll portion of "relish" from 25 litre jar into little pot
and
5)(carefully, H+S issues here) slice and apparently real and unfrozen tomato
6) put this on plate, together with other 3 meals when suitably zapped

But they seemed to enjoy their "food"

Good job they were not sitting where I was

[Coriolanus]

The two Sams pubs that I frequently use were both busy food houses before Humphrey took over. Sunday Lunch was hanging on and seemingly starting to improve until before Easter when he stopped them doing a Sunday roast and now it is gradually dying the same painful death that the rest of the week had already suffered through the companys useless introduction of the now infamous pie menu. I do know of at least two other Sams pubs that were once busy on food and which now are no longer doing any. Surely it would be better to give the food back to the managers to build up so that at least Sams is getting some not inconsiderable income from wet sales incurred through customers actually coming into the pub for food? There really is no logic behind this and it breaks my heart to see my treasured local being strangled by the very person who should care for it most.
I write this as I consider the venue for my family's annual Sunday lunch get together, which for years has been held at my Sams local. I feel like a traitor to my manager that I cant bring myself to go back there. We have to go elsewhere if we want a traditional Sunday Lunch or indeed anything that doesnt come out of a freezer or anything that doesnt come from a factory production line. A sad state of affairs indeed.

[fletch]

got so bad in our pub food got removed completley

[sackedbysam]

afraid we cant vote about what happened in october, we were sacked in june

[moggy]

hi ice fire what do you mean things are happening and its good

[icefire66]

thanks for your vote. 

[icefire66]

vote for the pie menu please.

[icefire66]

put your views in. there are THINGS happening at this end. all good for everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[icefire66]

thanks to whoevers's voted, but come on, let's have some feedback. we're all in the same boat, ok. it's sinking at the moment, but there could be a future. the food offering is crap, we all know that, takings have slumped, we all know that. hours are being cut accordingly. pretty soon a management couple in a catering house wil be just that. a couple just manageing, with maybe 15 - 20 hours help per week.