A British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) survey suggests that more than half of operators expect to close pubs that re-opened after England’s second national lockdown if trade doesn’t improve in the coming weeks.
According to BBPA figures, overall sales across all pubs in the UK over the weekend of 5 and 6 December were 84% lower than the same time last year as operators adjusted to the Government’s more stringent alert system.
As reported by
The Morning Advertiser (MA), while pubs and bars in tier one – just 729 sites or around one-in-50 of England’s pubs – can open provided they offer table service-only, call last orders at 10pm and empty by 11pm , those in both tiers two and three face degrees of enforced closure.