Operations
In December 2009, Wetherspoon operated 743 pubs in the United Kingdom and planned to invest £250 million in 250 new pubs across the country over five years. As of February 2011, according to their website, the chain currently operates 833 pubs UK-wide.
Wetherspoon pioneered having non-smoking areas in pubs even before the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Health Act 2006 in England introduced smoking bans in public houses, and started converting some of its pubs to completely non smoking in 2005 before introducing a complete ban in 2006.
Wetherspoon also own and run a chain of hotels (known until 17 September 2009 as "Wetherspoon Lodges" or "WetherLodges", but now as Wetherspoon Hotels, following a rebranding exercise) in the UK. There are currently 17 hotels in total, with 11 in England, 3 in Wales and 3 in Scotland.
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