Wetherspoon chief executive Sir Tim Martin has reinstated the tuna jacket potato after a customer complained about its removal. Adam Gale, a regular at the Rodboro Buildings in Guildford, Surrey, wrote to Sir Tim expressing his dismay that the filling was no longer available.
Gale, from Cranleigh, wrote: 'I love visiting Wetherspoons pubs across the country. Yet I am disappointed to see, at my local Wetherspoon in Guildford - The Rodboro Buildings - that the tuna filling is no longer available for the wonderful jacket potato menu option. Your other filling options, such as cheese and baked beans, are lovely. But the tuna one was so nice. Can we please have the tuna filling back on the Guildford menu?'
Sir Tim replied: 'For several decades, I was a tuna-and-jacket-potato guy. But I switched to a chicken wrap and salad for lunch a few years back. So, I hadn't noticed that the tuna had vamoosed. No sooner is my back turned. Seriously, though, as we speak, tuna has been reinstated. Your wish is my command, as they say.'
The pub chain has also announced it will hold prices for summer and autumn, despite a 30p increase on some items in January. Sir Tim argued for tax equality with supermarkets, noting that pubs pay 20% VAT on food and drink while supermarkets pay none. Wetherspoon plans to open 30 new pubs over the next year, creating around 1,800 jobs, with 15 directly managed sites including Edinburgh Old Town, Farnham, Basildon, Manchester, Heathrow, London Bridge, Paddington, and Glasgow.
