As British pubs face a perfect storm of sky-high energy bills, competition from supermarkets, a decline in footfall and staff shortages, it s no surprise they re looking at unique ways to keep costs down.
A survey - which asked 3,200 UK consumers if they had spent more, less or the same on leisure over the last three months - found sentiment on drinking in pubs and bars had dropped six per cent.
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SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The National Restaurant Association estimates that 110,000 eating and drinking places had shut for the long term if not for good by Dec. 2020.
Of those eating and drinking places, bars and taverns were hit hardest, with those that stayed open seeing sales fall by 65% on the year.
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Drinkers and diners who fail to cancel before blowing off a reservation were estimated to cost the British hospitality industry £16 billion ($22.2 billion) in 2019. Now, after more than a year of diminished trade, what was once a social sin could prove to be a poison pill.