Not my views - from a post on Reddit -
Have The Wired Lobby done a runner?
It’s been over two weeks now since they shut for the ‘Easter weekend’, and their shutters are still down. They’ve marked themselves as temporarily closed on Google, but have gone radio silent once again on all social media, despite all the poor press coverage from when they did it last time. They’ve turned the ability to comment off on their posts too?
What the hell is happening lol?
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I worked there as bar staff for the first month of open, and it wasn't as successful as it looked
We rearly got evening customers, only made money on the food, which didn't offset the costs of running and buying the gaming equipment.
The management and owners were terrible about the staff. Name calling being inappropriate calling to attention a few moments where female staff were crying because of the berating
They paid people half their wages before christmas rhen didn't paid until we got ACAS Involved and im sure some people still haven't
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I worked in here, digging up, prepping and fitting the flooring as it was getting stripped out and refurbished into the wired lobby, all the contractors were promised a free bar/party to celebrate it being completed (it took F***ing ages, many setbacks and ALOT of trades in a compact/tall space) and that just never happened.
Spoke to the owners/directors and they seemed to speak nothing but good things about the future of the place, so yeah it’s bizarre.
My guess is in the brief time they were open, it just wasn’t bringing the money in I assume. They spent a lot in developing it, a lot of bespoke material and custom stuff went into there.
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The thing is, they never gave it enough time to actually bring in any money. Every time they had something that was actually being successful, they'd change it, rather than build on it. Almost like they didn't want to make money .. completely weird.
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So the same company who own Wired Lobby, bought the space opposite, it used to be Thompson Bakery. It’s getting turned into a cinema, and our company had the contract again for all the flooring works, that was happening while wired lobby was being worked on, and I’m yet to set foot in that cinema job. It’s so odd. They PLOUGHED money into that place, I wish you could’ve seen it before.
I’m talking top spec on most things, unnecessarily so, it’s a weird one, almost like it was built on a fuckin weird promise or something idk it’s mad.