Reception
In 1994 The Times described the chain as "a modish hang-out for the stripped pine brigade". The chain's interior layout has been described as "minimalist". The chain has been criticised for spreading a bland uniformity throughout British high streets, and for removing individual elements from the pubs that it converts. The author Will Self described the chain as a "banal uglification that has smeared its corporate slime across Britain's high streets". In 1997, a Slug and Lettuce in a listed building in Islington Green illegally removed its old mahogany bar, which it was later forced to restore.
The success of the Slug and Lettuce concept has seen it become widely imitated, with Zoe Williams of The Guardian writing in 2012, "Does anybody remember in the 90s, when the Slug and Lettuce pub chain deliberately fancied itself up to appeal to the lady drinker? And wham, two seconds later, that's where all the men wanted to drink as well, so that all pubs had to become more like Slugs and Lettuces just to survive?"
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