The Rawson Spring - JD Wetherspoon — Restaurant in Sheffield

An average Wetherspoons is usually a little dark, a little cheap and has mediocre food. This place is no different.

They do a great job of making time disappear in the interior of this place, often blanking out any natural light so it appears the same whatever time of day you're in. Time is a concept that eludes the staff here too - a wait at the bar can age you a good few years. I'm almost certain I didn't have a beard before I started queuing at this bar, and now I'm as hairy as Chewbacca. The biggest tip I can give anyone visiting is to download the Wetherspoons App and order from your table - you'll absolutely get your drinks and food quicker this way.

Food is passable, as you'd expect. You can almost hear the constant pinging of the microwaves as the staff, zombified from the lack of light, endlessly trail up and down the place to deliver those plates of food you only really ordered because time had disappeared, it was Curry Thursday and there was a drink included.

There's a big screen for sports. Some little screens for sports. And on occasional Saturdays and some weeknights it is a sports crowd, for sports. It's a Wednesday pub, considering the proximity to Hillsborough Stadium. I once watched Sheffield United lose in a play--off final on the big screen in here and the atmosphere was buzzing. I did feel for the one woman who turned up wearing her United colours though, she got some right stick (especially when she decided to dance on the tables, with a Blades scarf aloft and the doormen trying their best to coax her down whilst pints of, well, some form of liquid, flew over their heads at her).

The saving grace here is the beer garden in the summertime. Nice and big, nice sun trap, its own container bar outside. Frankly, you wouldn't put the outside together with the inside. People are actually allowed to smile outside and everything.

Anyway, it's a Wetherspoons. You know what to expect from a Wetherspoons by...

I called in for a coffee with my wife it was very busy Only one table spare which had been used and was a mess with plates spilt drink etc.I went to the bar And asked politely to three women could someone clean the table.Nobody replied but one went in the back assuming to fetch the required cleaning implements.I felt like I had bothered them.Returning to my wife I said I think someone is coming.We waited a few minutes then the rudest girl I have ever known in a weatherspoons and I've been in lots throughout the country arrived which we greeted but nothing no reaction just cleared the table not even acknowledging by speaking or even looking at us.She disappeared the table still not clean.We waited another few minutes baffled. She then returned and while wiping the table badly I said thank you very much nothing!!.As she walked away I shouted thankyou again determined to get something NOTHING.I must point out that we are regular customers in Weatherspoons and thought this was a bad representation of all the wonderful staff we have encountered.I wanted to approach the manager and point this out but thought it would be a waste of time.The girl in question didn't deserve to work for you.Sorry but she had...

I have had breakfast here for two years with no problem. After today's experience I will never go again. An awful duty manager with a foul attitude ruined it. She started by gleefully refusing to substitute beans for mushroom on my friends breakfast. For two years this hasn't been a problem. She then got my order wrong and a vegan butty came instead of a vegan breakfast. Her fault, no apology. She then appeared saying that I needed to go to the bar and pay an extra 30p or I wouldn't get my food. I explained about customer service and he replied that it was a business. She seemed to miss the point. Eventually, after my friend had finished his meal, mine arrived. She gave me a dirty knife and fork. As she left I asked her for a clean knife and fork. No apology from her, no removal of the dirty cutlery. She reappeared five minutes later with cleaner cutlery, still no apology, still no removal of dirty cutlery. She didn't check it either, presumably she knew she had bought it over dirty in the first place. A nasty experience in what up until today had been a regular eating place. All other staff seemed lovely, as always. This sad duty manager from today needs to go. Wetherspoons have...