{"id":79987,"date":"2026-07-14T12:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/first-university-owned-wetherspoons-to-open-at-guildford-campus\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:09:32","slug":"first-university-owned-wetherspoons-to-open-at-guildford-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/first-university-owned-wetherspoons-to-open-at-guildford-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"First university-owned Wetherspoons to open at Guildford campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">University students have shared their excitement ahead of the opening of a Wetherspoons on campus.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Sir Ronald Wates, the UK&#8217;s first university-owned Wetherspoons pub, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm21xd6xp07o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">is set to open on the University of Surrey&#8217;s campus in Guildford<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cameron Corrigan, who is studying law at the university, says &#8220;it&#8217;s probably the best thing to ever happen to the university&#8221;, while paediatric nursing student Chloe Richardson said: &#8220;It&#8217;s great for uni students, we all struggle with money as well and it&#8217;s cheap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, student Ben Cutting said he was against the new pub. &#8220;I know they&#8217;re very inclusive, but it just feels like: &#8216;Is this what we&#8217;ve settled for?'&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Wetherspoons model means that staffing, prices and licensing will be set by the University of Surrey, while the budget pub chain will provide guidance as the franchisor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Corrigan said the new pub could have an impact on nightlife in Guildford but urged venues in the town to cut their prices to compete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are far too expensive for anyone to actually go out and have a good night without staring at your bank account every two seconds,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So this is a great alternative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c621pqy7x4qo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University students have shared their excitement ahead of the opening of a Wetherspoons on campus. The Sir Ronald Wates, the UK&#8217;s first university-owned Wetherspoons pub, is set to open on the University of Surrey&#8217;s campus in Guildford on Tuesday. Cameron Corrigan, who is studying law at the university, says &#8220;it&#8217;s probably the best thing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[5906,12394,288,21224,21225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79989,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79987\/revisions\/79989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}