Wetherspoons have stopped selling Steak meals

Restaurant prices have increased due to general supply and running cost rises, increase in minimum wage and NI contributions. Wetherspoons have been trying to get there profits back to pre-covid levels. Steak, mixed grill and gammon don't make enough profit, possibly as they had to actually grill it rather than zap it (I'm not sure they grilled anything).

I very rarely eat out now, maybe twice a year as the cost is just so prohibitive and the quality of food especially in Wetherspoons is not good
I don’t find Wetherspoons cheap anymore. It used to be but not anymore….
I do still have my coffee in Wetherspoons as I think that is good value

I once had a mixed grill in the WS in central London.
I complained to the waiter that the meat was tuff. Out came the chef, took my knife & fork off me & proceeded to cut my meat up, to show me, waving it under my nose, like I was a kid, how tender it was- I got my money back after he struggled to cut through a tough piece 🙄

It's Wetherspoons. If you order a steak it's not going to be cooked by Marco Pierre White. My husband has had steak in Spoons in the past and enjoyed it and he is a bit of a fusspot with steak.

If the top brass of Wetherspoons says it’s down to cost - might he not know best, infoman ?
Or is this another case of never letting the facts get in the way of a good (?) story?

A steak meal is now about £30 when eating out. All eating out is expensive these days - rising costs everywhere - even Italian where a pasta or pizza meal was low priced.We like to eat out as an extended family but as the bill is around £250 for 9 of us it is getting a bit ridiculous.
Our local pub has to offer a %20 off mains every few weeks - probably just to survive.

In our local eating places you would have to hand over two twenty pound notes for fish and chips and be lucky to get a fiver back.
Sausage and mash? £15:95.
Eating out is getting very expensive.
My last trip to Wetherspoons, at least two years ago, probably more, was really bad, very cheap but put me off going again.

Cost?

I think I will stick with my original statement about steaks being returned for extra grilling.
All costs have risen and we bought two fish and chip lots last week.
Handed over a twenty pound note,and expected to get at least one five note back in change.
Nope, just handful of shrapnel.

Someone has been having you on OP

WETHERSPOONS are cutting steak, mixed grills and gammon from menus across the country in a cost-cutting shake-up. The pub chain's top brass John Huston told staff on Friday that the popular dishes would be disappearing in May after an increase in meat costs made them the company's “biggest loss-makers”.15 Mar 2025

Really?

Just imagine being the chef,
and being requested to put a half eaten steak back in the grill to grill it some more,with other steaks still to be grilled.

OldFrill

Fairly widely reported earlier this year in MSM that they were discontinuing steak, gammon and mixed grill as they weren't profitable.

Which sounds like a much more credible explanation

Fairly widely reported earlier this year in MSM that they were discontinuing steak, gammon and mixed grill as they weren't profitable.

Do you have shares in Wetherspoons Infoman ?