Calling Out Sam Smith's RIDICULOUS Pub Policies | Joe Lycett's Got Your Back | Channel 4
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- Joe Lycett investigates the policies set out by Samuel Smith pubs with some help from journalist Kirsty Wark. Stream #JoeLycettsGotYourBack now on All 4.
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Being from America, I clicked on this thinking the Singer Sam Smith was operating pubs
From the UK, did the same thing! 😆
Being British but not having lived there for the last decade, I was also confused by the title haha. I was never much of a pub goer nor drinker so have never come across the name Samuel Smith Brewery. I may have been in one of their pubs but not known it.
I’m from England, UK and don’t worry, I thought the same. Kinda disappointed think Sam Smith’s (the singer) bars would be awesome places!
Better than this skin flint toxic brewery for exclusively boring people x
Lmmfao
Lived in the UK for 25 years and thought the same
I love how the Police Officer was quite pleased to see Joe Lycett! 😂
Police officer was just like. Hey ppl having some fun, no crimes commited, have a nice day.
Now that is a sensible copper.
Bet the fun sponge was furious and had a stern word with the police and crime commissioner (judging by Sam Smiths previous)
Now that's the kind of police officer others should strive to be. What a lovely chap.
First time I've seen a fed not want to get involved in politics
I worked at a Sam smith pub when I was 21, Humphrey smith came in to check how the pub was running. He came over to me purposely and ordered a pint of lager which was apparently supposed to be served in a specific glass (the pub didn’t have any of these left as they’d all been stolen or smashed before I started, so I was never told this). Anyway, when I served him a pint in a normal glass, he waited for me to put it down on the bar and then proceeded to scream blue murder at me in front of the entire pub. I couldn’t get a word in to explain myself and he stormed out. A grown man who is a millionaire screaming at a 21 yr old girl in public, after I’d done my best to provide him with professional and friendly service. The punters came over to check if I was ok, but not one member of staff checked on me.
I'm so sorry that happened to you, I honestly could never go back to working in service, so much disrespect. I'm annoyed that none of your staff even checked up on you, glad you've moved on to better things
I am sorry that happened to you. That shouldn't have happened, no employer should treat an employee like that. Hope you never have to work in such a toxic place again.
He sounds like a Caring Understanding Nurturing Type...
Friend of mine had a very similar experience, he came in screamed at the poor 18 year old fella and then fired him on the spot. My mate ended up in another pub with an atmosphere and actual tips (no stingey customers) so was a win in the end. Still pretty cruel berating what is basically a child in front of everyone. Was a few years ago though now, dunno if humphrey still does this shit.
I would have poured another beer and thrown it in his face
the copper was the best, is that Joe Lycette carry on mate xD
with a thumb's up too lol
How did you spell his name wrong and hear nothing
I know right!
@@grizzlynad PPOOPO
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That cop gets it
“Joe Lycett? Nah, he’s good.”
The police office cracked me up
We live in York, just down the road from Tadcaster. Husband used to work there, not for Smiths, in a local business. He basically owns the village and gets to decide everything that goes on there. The footbridge thing was quite real and quite absurd. The town was split in two and Smith just did not want that bridge. You had to head out of town, on to the A64 then back in, huge detour for a tiny place. He's a repugnant man.
Sounds like he should be the main villain in hot Fuzz 2 if they ever made it.
He sounds like a real life David Horton. Where’s the vicar when you need her?
I live in York too and will not drink in a sams smiths pub. Its funny they don't like swearing or phones ect but were fine with me being sexually harassed by a group of old men. Just a trash company all round
@@amygrant1503 elaborate?
@@chrisolagrim3597 elaborate on what?
I worked for this charming man. He would make us pour the drip trays in to the pint glasses to stop any wastage. I lived in house, he wanted to paint the walls of the flat so he kicked us out for a month. No where to sleep in the meantime, with three days notice. He once came in and refused a disabled person to use the disabled toilets, and made a homeless man move all the beer barrels because he was missing 10p for the pint he’d started drinking.
Yorkshire?
@@anonUK it was the Crown on New Oxford Street, London.
Holy shit that's a whole other level of arseholery 😳
jesus christ. Glad you no longer work for this pathetic man.
Maaan, I don't believe everything on TV or media and yet so many are coming out about this Smith guy. Destroy herrrr 😩💅💯
A few stories to add about Humpfrey and his family:
1. Someone had done a barn conversion and spent £300k to do it up nicely. Humpfrey bought the barn conversion and ripped out everything and turned it back into a barn.
2. His wife went to the charity shop in Tadcaster saw a pair of wellies and insisted she only wanted to buy one boot out of th pair and only wanted pay half price.
3. Humpfrey was obsessed with the idea the guy taking parking fees at his car park was skimming. So to help prove his point he camped out all night sleeping on a bench hoping to catch him... he's a millionaire!
nothing really wrong with any of these
@@ewan7283 well the wellies story is dumb because who is going to buy a sole wellie? Also its a charity shop stop being tight. Others just demonstrate how petty humphrey.
@@ewan7283 exsqueeze me?
@@ewan7283 bruh
@@ewan7283 ok contrarian
I live three minutes by foot from a SS pub. The last time I visited was alone to have Sunday lunch. While I was waiting for my lunch I took out my phone because my gf (who was away on family business) had sent me a message updating me on the health of her mother who was ill. I was told that mobile phones are banned and I should put it away. I was hungry so didn’t tell them to eff off right then but resolved never to visit again. The remainder of my time was spent listening to people talking about the mobile phone ban, itself a joyless and dismal experience. In banning mobile phones to encourage conversation, Humphrey lost a customer; pissed me right off; forced strangers to have dull conversations about how ridiculous the ban is.
You shouldn't be telling anyone to eff off for enforcing company policy. I am sure whoever it was that told you to put your mobile phone away didn't invent the rules, thus if you had told them to eff off it would've been extremely poor from you.
😂
@@Matthew-bu7fg if policy is dumb it should be met with dumb behaviour
@@Matthew-bu7fg I don't think he meant it literally, I'm certain he would have said it in a more courteous way
@@BritJim it's hardly morally reprehensible is it? It is a ridiculous policy but it's not a moral issue.
The guy who rang the police broke the law, namely, section 5.2 of the criminal law act 1967, which comes with either a £5000 fine or 6 months in jail. Well done Joe. That pub owner should be in jail as well.
Can you explain more? I'm not from the UK so I kinda want more context.
@@josefv1154 I believe he’s referring to this
(2)Where a person causes any wasteful employment of the police by knowingly making to any person a false report tending to show that an offence has been committed, or to give rise to apprehension for the safety of any persons or property, or tending to show that he has information material to any police inquiry, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for not more than six months or to a fine of not more than [F3level 4 on the standard scale] or to both.
Unfortunately, this would never stick in court. He tosser could simply argue he was a concerned citizen reporting information to the best of his knowledge to the police, and he was worried for the community, because a strange man (Joe) was acting in unusual ways. Furthermore, I believe it may actually have been technically illegal for Joe to pour and offer alcohol on the street like he did, although Joe would probably get away with that due to it being a comedy bit and him being famous and it was on TV.
I would laugh if that guy got arrested for wasting police time! lol😂
@@aartadventure If you look, he's pouring Becks Blue, its non alcholoic. Probably to get around not having a licence.
As soon as the police man said “is that joe lycett?” I knew he was gonna be fine with it.
Had meeting with Humphrey... turned up in a clapped out car and then took the most popular beer off sale because nobody was buying his new one... then fired me for the loss of trade he had caused
Things that never happened
@@monkeytennis8861 Hello Humphrey
@@monkeytennis8861 seriously? There are thousands of similar stories about this nutcase
Well this threw me for a loop! I honestly thought the lovelorn singer had branched out and got themselves a second business as a backup if their music career tanked.
I'm sure there are plenty of people called Sam Smith
lmao same (also props for using right pronouns!!)
@@eviewong7519 sad props
@@esobelisk3110 happy props
begone
himself
I'll never set foot in another. There was one in our darts league. They kicked off because two of our players use their mobiles to manage medical conditions. I mean, how very dare we look at our phones when it's trying to tell us our blood sugar is too low? The use was explained, the medical necessity was explained, and the discrimination was explained when we were told to keep the volume off and go outside the premises to check to make sure no alerts were being missed. At the end of the night it was recommended that both players be left out of the team for future away matches there. And I get it now - they're run by an arsehole that will punish them for any transgressions. I don't care if they're the only water or toilet in 100 miles and I'm desperate - never, ever, again.
That would have to be illegal under the disabilities act wouldn't it ??
They have Darts Boards I'm Surprised.
Oh do use their toilet, just don't give them any business. I stopped using one of their pubs in SW London, years ago. The staff were bitterly unhappy.
When you sound like you should be the main villain in the sequel to hot Fuzz you know there's something wrong. I bet even Tim Martin thinks he's a w*nker.
We were in a Sam Smith's pub a while ago and my friend got out a laptop just to charge a phone as it was low in battery. The person behind the bar immediately said "No laptops! My boss will sack me!". It was so strange! We asked, politely and just out of interest, why this was but the answer was just "My boss will sack me". Now it all makes sense. Also the beer was sh*t.
Bullshit
@@monkeytennis8861 Why would it be bullshit? These are literally the rules in the Sam Smith pubs. You're not allowed laptops out and the boss of the brewery punishes the pub staff. It's literally the point of this video. It was in the Yorkshire Grey in London, W1 on Tuesday the 1st February.
@@monkeytennis8861 Did you not watch the video?
Are you telling me taddy lager didn't impress you? 🤔 their beer is shite and their owner is shite.
After hearing how badly the owner treats people I refuse to drink at these pubs anymore
It takes a real psychotic sense of entitlement to think that employment law doesn't apply to your or your business and you can jsut do whatever the hell you want.
Also i WISH i could have seen that twats face when the cop he called turned up and was borderline starstruck to see Joe Lycett lmao
Employment law for minimum wage workers only really exists in theory. The law will protect you assuming you can afford for it to do so. Unless you earn enough to make it worthwhile employment law is nought but a cruel joke.
Narcissism. A real personality disorder
That police officer is the true gem “no problem for me then!”
got offered a pub landlord job in a sam smith pub on my first trip to my new local after moving 300 miles despite having no experience working behind a bar. Got told it would be minimum wage and id also have to pay for the bills for the flat upstairs as they would be my responsibility as I would be required to live there. the bar staff looked depressed and trapped. The place still has no customers because of its rules
In fairness, getting free lodging is a pretty nice perk on top of a wage, even if it is minimum. It's not like housing (and likely a commute) wouldn't be a cost in any other job. But yes, a place like this seems like a living hell to work in.
@@FHL-Devils the place being a studio flat isnt something id consider moving into given that i already have a house. it just would mean paying bills for two properties. I can see it trapping people easily that do want to find a place of their own, but even then they would be better off saving for a deposit elsewhere
@@russellharris5314 ......... so then, you're not the ideal candidate for the job, and maybe you have nothing useful to add to the conversation? And clearly you don't understand that some people have no choice but to rent. And also clearly you also don't understand that the best way to "save for a deposit elsewhere" IS to get housing included with their job.
@@FHL-Devils totally right about me not being the right candidate. I saw the scam while it was being pitched. the same job in another pub chain would pay £20k more, you could easily save up while renting in better accommodation for doing exactly the same job role. local flats of that quality in the town were being sold for £14k(no i am not missing a zero on that figure)
@@russellharris5314 in what year did you see a flat on sale for £14000? Like thats just not believable. And if you did see it, then it was either a scam or the building is in such bad shape itll cost you way more to repair than to just buy a decent flat.
In Whitby during folk week they burned an effigy of humphrey smith on the beach...The Plough was where all the folkies gathered and they were absolutely furious at the music ban..a few years later at the same pub, the landlord threw people out for singing happy birthday...🤯
Natural follow up is to go to Sam's and ask for a top up. Take a sip. Ask for a top up. Take a sip. Ask for a top up.
Do it, Joe!
Oh my days that Police Officer is a legend
I once sat in a Sam Smith pub looking at my phone for almost an hour because my friend was running late. I was sat right in front of the bar. When my friends arrived we spent all night there having a great time while swearing like sailors. Not a problem whatsoever, not a peep from the staff. It makes me glad to know that staff are rebelling against these weirdly Draconian rules.
However, they didn't take card, which was bizarre. Had to trek to the nearest cash point.
All cash business, easier for fraud.
I could imagine food and beer being thrown at Humphrey Smith if he saw all this and tried to shut down the pub! lol😂
@@MartintheTinman Cards also provide an accurate and irrefutable list of your earnings.
You would not believe the number of small businesses in the UK who fudge their tax returns by misquoting their physical cash intake - It's a fairly common practice, as someone who has worked for people in these kinds of businesses.
If you spend £10 cash at a market stall or other similar street vendor, you'd be lucky if they declare even £1 of that sale come tax time
@@MartintheTinman cost of counting cash, having it collected, and safely storing it, easily now costs more than card fees for most businesses
@@0ME96 yeah er that's probably the reason. Probably.
In Appleton roebuck there used to be a SS pub (I don’t think it’s still open), I shit you not my friend got told off for checking his phone for the time, meanwhile there was a couple casually groping each other’s groins by the toilet entrance. It’s ridiculous how much this man owns and how much he exploits people. There are so many stories around York of him, not heard a single nice one.
Omg that bloody bridge debacle, I had forgotten....
I love how the cop recognised him and was just like “carry on” 😂
He should've filmed in the pub, and have people constantly request a top off.
So, if you ever have the misfortune of ending up in a Sam Smith's pub you should ask for a top up, regardless of how full the glass looks because their policy is to short change the customers.
No there was no "need" to allow the temporary bridge, it's just called acting like a decent human being
Thank you Joe Lycett for calling out these kinds of businesses. I would say don't go to these places but the only ones who would really suffer are the people who work for these money grabbers. Just ask for that top up on the pint...
I'll leave you to it then! 🤣 priceless
It's nice to see a cop who actually knows the law. The US could take a few lessons... both police and the public.
@@FHL-Devils I know right? Not to judge all US police by what ive seen, but what I HAVE seen just shows they love to exercise a bit of power whenever they can
@@sodone4593 - And the public loves to push the limit to see exactly what that breaking point is.
My friends were kicked out of one of their pubs in West London for reading something on their phone and not talking enough. We went back together and were told to leave again for taking out our phones.
I live in Rochdale.
There must be 10 Smith's pubs here.
I think at last count 3 were open.
Humphrey is a menace to his own business.
I thought he was talking about the singer for a second, I was like why would they be kicking people out of pubs lol
*he
Watched this across the pond and was so pleased to see the first google question be "why are so many Sam Smith pubs closed?" and the answer be "lack of people to run them." Way to go guys!
Weirdly enough, the only gay pub in York during the 1970s, 80s and 90s was "The York Arms" near the Minster....a Sam Smith's pub
Nice pub too, still is
Why didn't the crazy owner intervene? Or did he take over somewhere in the 90s?
been closed nearly 2 years , because no one wants to risk taking it on , nice little pub to
Worked in a sam smiths pub for years, those last few years were awful, was in an ex mining village and it was so tiresome trying to enforce these rules, hours got cut after our manager died so couldn't replace him considering he did 16 hours a day 7 days a week at times as he was on his own, and the night he died humphrey came and told us that the rules weren't being followed. Also because we were struggling to find a manager for the pittance he was going to be paying them for the amount of hours they were actually doing we were due to close so he told us we would have to either hand in our notice or we wouldn't get our holiday pay due to us or we would be moved to a different pub till it reopens.. hes not got a clue how the real world works, yes in theory the swearing and phone ban would be nice at times but honestly it's just a futile thing, you either have it or you lose your customers which we would have done if we'd have kicked one of them out for swearing.
Won’t be going into those pubs for 96%er ever ! 😂😂😂
Went to the Kings Arms in York(Smiths). The staff were absolutely miserable. Before the pandemic, it was owned by someone else and it had a wonderful atmosphere. I’ve researched the bridge in Tadcaster, and the people he’s made life hell for in that area, Honestly, the only way Humphrey Smith would look good, is being several feet under.
But working for Spoons they do 5% heads on pints and force you to overload with ice to save on soft drinks lol
That's why I always say I don't want ice in my drink at spoons, otherwise you end up with 1/3 drink 2/3 ice.
They charge 30% less than most pubs though so swings and roundabouts
Thats not a new thing, mcdonalds and kfc have been doing that for years.
At least their burgers are good.
@@llpalm08 is that on your way to the Mensa meeting you genius.
I was going to be a land-lord of a small three-story walk-up (42 units all said and told) and when they asked how much I would require to be paid.. I said "Since my living accommodation will be a taxable item, I would like an additional $38k a year on top of that" they looked at me in half bewildered gaze.. that would be about $50k, all said and told. I told them that since my living in that apartment would be conditional to my employment I would not do it for less because if I decide to end my contract I will be forced to find another apartment at probably a higher cost, this was to guarantee I would be able to afford to do so should the time come. I never heard back.
You forget the no credit cards, but for a brief period the Pub near us accepted credit cards but insisted on an obscure surcharge of something like 1.82%, they do not accept them now. This one was also an Hotel, you were expected to settle your accommodation bill in cash.
The one near us is dreadful, I never go now, it was a decent pub before SS took over, now the car park is empty, just like the pub.
They are currently advertising for 113 management couples to run their pubs. Their estate is about 235 - 240 pubs and hotels so about half of them are currently shut. But a lot of pubs are struggling and as they are rumoured to own nearly all of their properties as freeholds they are probably losing less money on them by keeping them closed.
"Sam Smiths: marginally less problematic than Spoons. Also we're not that cheap anymore, but what you gonna do?"
Such a waste of police time the person should be fined for calling them unneeded ly
Such a fan/appreciator of Joe Lycett!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Nellie's in Beverley has become a toxic environment for the fun sponges of Samuel Smith. Dirty taps is what makes the beer taste better there.
love the advert was for hugo boss 😂
The delivery from Mark on “I’m absolutely hammered” fucking sent me
Policeman clearly got actual stuff to do.
There needs to be multiple shows like this in the US.
Problem with that is your right/fundamentalists etc would take massive issue with the fact he's gay to start with.
Look at what's happening with Disney and Florida.
Fox and that Shapiro bastard would be all over it.
There's a "Don't say gay" bill of all things.
He would be safer in the US doing a CZcams channel.
Then it would be seen as "communism" or "socialism" and other words certain people throw about but don't know the meaning of.
We have programs like this where I live in New Zealand
but we also have a social democracy.
In the US you would have loads of angry people yelling about socialists trying to interfere with business and "my rights" etc.
that cop was a legend XD
I actively avoid all Unhinged Humphrey’s pubs. Not hard to do. Just look through the window and if the customers all look lifeless and dull, it’s one of his joyless hell holes.
Good one, Joe! The copper was funny!
They've put their prices up outrageously. A pint of their piss poor own brand cider is £6.50, everywhere in London. You can get something far better for less money in genuinely nice pubs. £1.60 for a packet of crisps too! Oh well. I'll be boycotting both Sam Smiths as well as JDW from now on.
10 years ago I could justify going to the one by Arndale in Manchester because the pints were £2. Now, in 2022 Bristol, they're over £5. Fuck you very much.
I've never heard of these pubs. Thank god
I'm goin' to 'Spoons too!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Kx
We have a couple of Sam Smiths around here, lived a few doors down from one for years. Tbh it used to be great - nice atmosphere with cheap beer and no trouble, none of the landlords enforced the draconian rules until the phone ban came in by which point I'd moved house.
Every single landlord I spoke to thought the owner was a complete @rsehole though, literally 100% of them.
i still cant tell if ive just gone delusional or if those eyes are really blinking in the background XD
Being from Yorkshire Sam Smith Pubs have been weird. Generally we're a bunch of really proud, family/community driven bunch, there's also lots of miners who are known for their "Pit talk" which is pretty much just swearing. Sam Smiths seems the opposite of all that...
I've just woken up so go easy on me. I thought this was about the singer Sam Smith, LMFAO!!.. 😂😂😂✌
I assure you the London branches are not cheaper then other pubs lol they are pricey AF
Really? Most pubs in London charge £5 to £6 for a pint
Than*
@@saddamhussein8489 lol
We have a Sam Smith pub here in Bristol called the ‘King William Ale House’… safe to say that it’s always empty 😬👍🏻
The much better Famous Royal Navy Volunteer is next door.
@@roberthindle5146 indeed! The Volley is much better 😌👌🏻
I really want to go there now just to use my phone. And then obviously to the volley. Or maybe kongs
@@chrisneale2036 kong’s is the best! 😊 I used to work with a Chris Neale, you didn’t ever work at Debenhams in Bath per chance did you? 😂
@@XenilaVanilla Afraid not, or at least, not that I remember!
Sam smith or Humphrey has closed loads of the Sam smith pubs out of no where. My local SS pub was open on the Monday and packed up/gone on the Tuesday. Can’t even imagine how the pub manager felt. Slowly it’s been happening to more and more around here (I’m pretty local to tadcaster too).
I was also kicked out of a Sam Smith pub for drinking a snake bite and black- even though they served me and the manager came over and asked me to leave for drinking an “illegal” drink lol. That was in York!
Humphrey is such a callous and horrid person for what he did to pub managers over and post lockdown let alone how much of a bell end he was before lockdown.
Genuinely thought you were talking about the musician, sam smith
I went into one of these pubs in Whitby once, what a depressing experience. It’s since closed, not surprised I’ve been in morgues that have more life than these depressing places.
The background painting with people blinking was tripping me out.
Feudal Lord of Tadcaster
So this indian guy is the Guillermo to your Jimmy Kimmel. LOL
YES JOE BOSS GET ‘EM
Isn’t it Hugo Lycett? ;)
@@bobafetting6373 An enigma for sure haha
i remember when whiby burned an eforgy of samel smith, because they dint get a music license during the whitby folk festival. the year before was it was the best place for music in whitby and reason teenage me came back. 2005~
He kicked men out for kissing lol I used to hook up with a guy in his pub after closing on the pub floor. Just to clarify the pub joe was outside of .
Good Yorkshire accent Joe does.
Pint glass is 6 inches. Beer head is recommended to be 1 inch. It holds the flavour
all pubs give 95 percent of a pint there allowed by law the head of the pint
But not 94 percent, that's crazy.
Legally sure but I've personally never had a pub I've worked in have a policy that I HAVE to pour 95%.
Nasty pubs and sadly the only pub in my village. The daft rules spoil the community feeling the pub ought to have and with no other options, the shite beer and sour faced landlords have to be faced or you go without. I stay away, it’s not worth it when it is actually open. It’s been shut on and off over the course of years anyway - bad management and crap rules don’t make for a busy pub!
There are more stuffed animals than people in my local SS pub on a Saturday night. Taxidermy , not toys.
Joe needs to do one of these with @carpetright bunch of crooks
So glad my local pub is a sizzlers
It’s like Wetherspoons in air strip one basically
To be fair, a lot of pubs are this bad. I have one local that I absolutely love, and it's a rock pub. There aren't many others I would set foot in in my city because they're owned by oppressive chains who seem overly obsessed with people not wearing hats, attract hordes of chavs at exactly 9pm or have a less welcoming atmosphere than Mars.
Two years ago I went into a pub I hadn't been into for probably ten years, I was eager to go and check it out again because they used to host some good bands. Within 3 minutes of arriving the Karen behind the bar was yelling at me for wearing a hat and "disrespecting" her father (I have no idea).
I told her that if that's how she welcomes new customers she should make the most of the next five years because the several drunk old men around me weren't long for this world.
Do you also coincidentally arrive at around 9pm, with a desire to wear a hat indoors?
I work there currently in soho, London. I’m leaving in a week for uni. The cider, along with the pure brew, is now 7.30. And Sam has the absolute audacity to blame the decline of sales on my manager and the entire bar pretty much, when he’s the one raising the prices to ridiculous amounts. This company is facing its downfall already I know. The only reason I stayed so long because the manager is an amazing woman and I love working with my colleagues. Shit company. Wouldn’t recommend.
Never heard of them, But I'll be sure to steer clear.
Used to work in a Sam Smith put 2009 Humphrey spends NYE driving around his London pubd to check theres no music coming from them. Also, hes crazy strict about GP profit markups, if you are just 1% under GP for 2 months...then youre out!
Legend of a police man
Samuel Smith, brews World Class beers!!! Winter Welcome Ale, included!!
Why is it that that Humphrey Smith runs his Samuel Smith pubs like how they were in Victorian Times? Recently, when I went to The Rugby Tavern in Hull, it was empty, yet the other pub chains were not, which was a shame (I do enjoy the chocolate stout that Samuel Smith does) and I do like to chat to people, but it's not surprising that the Samuel Smith pubs are usually quiet or even empty considering that Humphrey has ridiculously silly rules in place like the no mobile phone rule and the no swearing rule....
@sambee8982
Also Victorian pubs didn’t have signs saying “no laptops, no tablets, no phones” everywhere like Sam smith’s pubs do, so that rule kinda backfired on him.
You’d also think a traditionalist would have more cask beer selection but no they only do “old brewery bitter” on cask, their other beers are taps.
Make Season 3 of Utopia!!!
Are you talking about the series that got axed several years ago about sterilising people!? 😧 if so yes! I completely agree! 😁
So Sam Smiths pubs are contractually obliged to short measure customers? Awesome. Don't go to the pub often but when I do it won't be Sam Smiths.
Yeah... I think that would surely be a disregard of the law - went in a Sam Smith pub once in Scarborough and got below the minimum level required for a "pint"... I asked why, got told it was company policy so rang my father - who just so happened to work for the local area of Trading Standards Within a few days, it was at least the regulation level
How is selling 94% of a pint allowed with the weights and measures rules? Seems deliberately illegal.
We are just getting into these beers on US West Coast. I cant believe this guy Humphry. But then seeing magats here in US, im not that surprised.
That Bobby was like oii oii Joe lycett! 😩💖
This guy needs to be visited by three Christmas ghosts lmao
Quite fitting that it shortens down in the comments to ‘an SS pub’
Lol. Mien bier
Heard a funny story recently of Humphrey walking into a pub near tadcaster ranting about how your not allowed music, phones + this that and the other. Threatening to fire the managers then being laughed out of the pub when the managers told him to get lost as he’d walked into the wrong one and the Sam Smiths pub he was looking for was 400 yards down the road.
Has anyone actually been to any of those pubs? In my time in hospitality I employed a few staff that worked for that company. Whole sections of pubs are closed off as they don't meet health and safety regulations and brewery doesn't provide refurbishments. I was told management accommodation is horrific as well. Those pubs are extremely cheap to go to but mostly attract un-employed, alcoholics and very old clientele.
sad thing is there is some great pubs , the owner is the issue
I'd never heard of these crazy rules but then again I tend to avoid the pubs as the beer tastes like piss.
Right; am I the only English person not not have ever heard of these places like literally ever I mean it’s not even like I don’t go to pubs, I go too much if anything, but this is the first time I’m even hearing the name Sam Smith (outside of a music context)
I know I’m late but typically they don’t advertise themselves as Sam smith pubs and just keep the pubs original name, so unless they’re strict on the weird rules or heavily push their own brand drinks over others you wouldn’t notice. I live in the north east where apparently most their pubs are located and never heard of the bloke or the company in my life. According to google there is actually a pub of his in my town that’s ‘temporarily closed’ that the brands own website claims is open…it last opened its doors in 2008. The official count not only includes this and likely other ‘open’ pubs, but also includes ones the brand itself recognises as closed (which god knows how long they’ve been abandoned for if 15 years isn’t long enough to be considered closed) so that 200 venues is probably a lot lot smaller.
Doesn't the official weights and measures act make intentionally not filling a glass illegal?