PUB giant Wetherspoons has sparked fury over secret plans to kill off the
traditional roast dinner.
The last of the dishes will be served up at the chain’s 950 pubs on Mothering
Sunday next weekend.
Wetherspoons will instead now focus on its “large” all-day menu, including
breakfasts, burritos and gourmet burgers.
The Sunday Club section on its website has already disappeared. But pubs will
continue to host themed nights, including Mexican Mondays and Thursday’s
Curry Club.
Today we launch a campaign to save the roast at Wetherspoons.
Yorkshire pudding champion Chris Blackburn, 37, of Calder Valley, said: “We
lose a lot of our traditions when we start abandoning special things
associated with Britain.
“If a huge chain of British pubs has decided to stop serving roast dinners it
is a terribly sad day.”
Pippa Woods, of the Family Farmers’ Association, said: “It will be extremely
troubling if the roast became unfashionable.”
Wetherspoons has sold roasts for as little as £6.59, including a pint or glass
of wine, for 15 years.
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Brits eat around 1.3million roast dinners a year. It is thought the meal dates
back to medieval times when folk were rewarded on a Sunday with a roast oxen.
A Wetherspoons spokesman said the decision to stop serving roasts was “just
one of those things”.
They said: “There will be a lot of disappointed people and we apologise for
that.
“But sometimes you have to make a commercial decision.”