By Spitfire you mean half cider and half light ale is that right?
Got a/h'd on them many a time when I was a waiter a Butlin's during my student days.A very formative experience waiting at Butlin's I would recommend it.
Although I can understand the nothing left to eat stuff, my wife hates shopping and if I don't do it we don't get to eat.Unless it's market day, she doesn't mind a bit of haggling at the market.
Seriously though they have got the right idea, no good has come of the place since we've been there. Knock it down and start again, it will wipe out an entire chapter of our history.