Stafford Ale House

Tants

Well-Known Forumite
thanks, missed the updates there. Very sad but not surprising given previous form. Would have thought they were doing well enough though. Stafford really can be a depressing town at times! Does make you wonder what's going to be the secret to reviving the town....well...apart from low rent!
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
I'd love to know how that pub I visited in Liverpool is so cheap, was half what I just paid in the yard for a very similar round. Can only assume they owned the building.
 

The Stafford Beast

Well-Known Forumite
The cakes are still in the display unit from when they closed. They were really nice. I see they've not turned to mush yet!

Ex-staff are currently looking for jobs if anyone has one available in catering...?
 

Arcadesteve

Active Member
The staff of the Ale House can kiss their money goodbye. My information is that two of the owners owe a silent partner a lot of money. The figure i've been told is around 30 grand. His hopes of seeing that money are fading with every passing day. Sad. So much for 'we're nothing like the last owners'.
 

Dan moss

Newbie
Sadly yes the stafford ale house has closed down! No fault of the owners or staff, all this gossip about money being owed, silent partners being owed money has absolutely nothing to with the people on this site. The owners and staff tried their hardest to provide excellent customer service but sadly as other shops and pubs In stafford ie millets, jjb, Hmv and co op we had to close. Only the owners and staff know what has actually happened so I suggest that you all get the facts before you start slagging the place off
 

db

#chaplife
Sadly yes the stafford ale house has closed down! No fault of the owners or staff, all this gossip about money being owed, silent partners being owed money has absolutely nothing to with the people on this site. The owners and staff tried their hardest to provide excellent customer service but sadly as other shops and pubs In stafford ie millets, jjb, Hmv and co op we had to close. Only the owners and staff know what has actually happened so I suggest that you all get the facts before you start slagging the place off
i "liked" your post, because i agree and sympathise with the part about how it's hard making a successful go of any business in this day and age, and it's a real shame to see the stafford ale house go under..

however, this is stafford forum - a place designed for people to chat about stafford and stafford related things.. the fact that so many people are discussing the stafford ale house here is testament to how much it was enjoyed and how much it will be missed! the only way people can hope to "get the facts" is by talking about it, exchanging titbits of information, etc. exactly as they are doing here.. until we have some sort of official statement, chinese whispers and gossip is all we've got :hmm:
 

Dan moss

Newbie
Well as a member of staff at the stafford ale house I can say that we have closed down! And to the people who are commenting about the money side it has nothing to do with you! It's between the stafford ale house and its staff.

I completely understand that stafford forum is a place where people can express their opinions but some of the comments made I find highly amusing, people are throwing about accusations that have no truth about then at all. The forum is a place to express opinions and not to accuse the owners of owning people money
 

Jade-clothing

Well-Known Forumite
I also know someone who was fired by text and they owe a lot of money to in wages . been trying to phone and text ever since and they never answer or reply .
didn't they have the same thing happen to them when the pie place closed down ? you'd think they would have some sympathy .
I said from day one of them re opening it wouldn't last five minutes . why open a pub that is almost identical in every way to one that had to close ? you need something different to survive these days and dodgy coffee and over priced pies isn'tit .
that said I absolutely love the place itself and would love to see it as a flourishing business .

the first paragraph of what I wrote on this thread is fact. the rest is just my personal opinion ... to which I am entitled . I stand by my post.
 

db

#chaplife
Well as a member of staff at the stafford ale house I can say that we have closed down! And to the people who are commenting about the money side it has nothing to do with you! It's between the stafford ale house and its staff.

madonna's trip to malawi is nothing to do with me
apple's intentions vis a vis the direction of the ipad is nothing to do with me
tv weather man fred talbot being arrested on suspicion of indecent assault is nothing to do with me
etc.

yet all of these things are on the front of the major news sites, and people are talking about them.. just because someone doesn't really want something to be public knowledge, doesn't mean that the public don't want knowledge of it ;)

this is a forum where people discuss things that interest them - usually often local things.. if a much loved establishment closes under mysterious circumstances, then people are obviously going to speculate - the same way people speculated when HMV closed, panache (pending), druckers, etc..

no-one bears ill will - we're all just interested in what is happening in our home town, and in a place as little as stafford something like this is as interesting as it gets! :P
 

dazza

Active Member
after reading these comments one can only assume that dan moss maybe something to do with the management side maybe even an owner, of the ale house, like i said one can only assume
 

db

#chaplife
after reading these comments one can only assume that dan moss maybe something to do with the management side maybe even an owner, of the ale house, like i said one can only assume
in fairness to dan, he's obviously been caught up in a murky situation (although i have no idea who he is, or in what capacity he was involved with the stafford ale house, if at all), so it's a bit unfair to cast aspersions! i know i've just basically been arguing completely the opposite lol, but there's a difference between gossiping/speculating about what happened to cause a pub to close down, and levelling accusations at someone on a personal level! :P
 
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