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Wetherspoons phone app is excellent. You can order food/drinks and they arrive at the table immediately (quicker than going to the bar!). This would seem to be

Wetherspoons phone app is excellent. You can order food/drinks and they arrive at the table immediately (quicker than going to the bar!). This would seem to be a more effective use of modern technology, rather than a me too social media presence.

marsRoverDev 9y ago
+1 kudos to the Wetherspoons digital team. The app is so good.
pjc50 9y ago
My employer (http://www.zonal.co.uk/ http://www.zonal.co.uk/) is responsible for the backend for that. It's wired into the same point of sale and kitchen screen systems as if it had been rung up at the bar.
- Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
  Oh, now that's interesting. So does that mean the app gives full access to all the products and deals available at the bar? Does it include guest beers/ciders? The reason for asking: I drink real cider and Wetherspoons fairly consistently sells it (most pubs don't), out of a bag-in-a-box in the fridge. But the majority of Spoons meals are now sold on a "meal+drink" basis. How you buy this with a real cider is something that perpetually perplexes their staff, and seems to vary from pub to pub.
  - pjc50 9y ago
    It's a subset of the products, because they need to have extra information set up for them like product photos. There's two ways it could be set up, which are either "promotions" (if the two things appear anywhere on the same bill, they're automatically grouped) or "recipes" (choose one item from column A and one item from column B). I suspect the real ciders are simply left out of the right categories by whoever does the data maintenance, maybe because they change frequently.
    - Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
      Interesting - thank you. Will try it next time I'm in a Spoons and find out what happens!
  - audiometry 9y ago
    What distinguishes ‘real’ cider from something else?
dbbk 9y ago
I actually find myself unable to use the app a lot of the time. Just this week I tried to order drinks that didn't show up in the app, but were only available at the bar(?) Also you can't leave any comments/requests with your order, for instance asking for a Coke without a slice of lime.
throwawaymanbot 9y ago
Does it/Will it steal my social graph though? What are its privacy features if installed?

marsRoverDev 9y ago

+1 kudos to the Wetherspoons digital team. The app is so good.

pjc50 9y ago

My employer (http://www.zonal.co.uk/ http://www.zonal.co.uk/) is responsible for the backend for that. It's wired into the same point of sale and kitchen screen systems as if it had been rung up at the bar.

Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
Oh, now that's interesting. So does that mean the app gives full access to all the products and deals available at the bar? Does it include guest beers/ciders? The reason for asking: I drink real cider and Wetherspoons fairly consistently sells it (most pubs don't), out of a bag-in-a-box in the fridge. But the majority of Spoons meals are now sold on a "meal+drink" basis. How you buy this with a real cider is something that perpetually perplexes their staff, and seems to vary from pub to pub.
- pjc50 9y ago
  It's a subset of the products, because they need to have extra information set up for them like product photos. There's two ways it could be set up, which are either "promotions" (if the two things appear anywhere on the same bill, they're automatically grouped) or "recipes" (choose one item from column A and one item from column B). I suspect the real ciders are simply left out of the right categories by whoever does the data maintenance, maybe because they change frequently.
  - Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
    Interesting - thank you. Will try it next time I'm in a Spoons and find out what happens!
- audiometry 9y ago
  What distinguishes ‘real’ cider from something else?

dbbk 9y ago

I actually find myself unable to use the app a lot of the time. Just this week I tried to order drinks that didn't show up in the app, but were only available at the bar(?) Also you can't leave any comments/requests with your order, for instance asking for a Coke without a slice of lime.

throwawaymanbot 9y ago

Does it/Will it steal my social graph though? What are its privacy features if installed?