Solo un pub britannico su tre realizza un profitto, rivela LBC, poiché le tasse sull’alcol e l’aumento di NI lasciano i locali in difficoltà per rimanere aperti
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/pub-profit-closing-labour-budget-5HjdNps_2/
di StGuthlac2025
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Is this just another positive life style change post turned into anti labour rhetoric?
Alcohol consumption is down in the younger generations. It isn’t trendy or popular any more. Which is a good thing.
Everyone cheers when NHS burden due to obesity or alcohol consumption is down but this is what you get when businesses fail to adapt.
Realistically this would be no different saying that McDonald’s is suffering because people don’t want to eat shit food any more.
It’s proven people are drinking less and when they do drink they want a nice one not off the shelf
£3 in 2005 is worth £6 today. Labour hasn’t been deciding the budget for the last decade….
Alcohol costs the NHS 27 billion, it’s unhealthy, makes people into twats, driving limit should be coming down, makes you feel shit the next day and it’s expensive. Maybe we are just learning from our smoking alcohol grandparents that things can infact be better
Also on my local area all the pubs have been purchased by chains, they are naff and they’ve all sold their carparks so you have to pay to park there. Expensive, unappealing and inconvenient
I suspect the biggest burden on costs is the energy bills
I don’t know if its just me or not, but I honestly, really, don’t care. Sorry.
Expensive booze/food (compared to ‘Spoons, for example) and local weirdo’s hanging around the bar and decent seating – no thank you.
Is it actually to do with the duty rates, or is it more to do with the breweries that actually own most of the pubs increasing their extraction of cash from them.
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that most actually independent pubs are making small-but-not-nothing profits most years.
They’re also a lot cheaper to drink in.
Let’s be honest, there are an awful lot of shitty pubs out there.
And energy cost increases
And business rates increases
And minimum wage increases
And rent increases
It’s no wonder they’re all shutting down.
So people are vaping instead of smoking, taking coke and ket instead of drinking, and being terminally online instead of going out. Are any of these true improvements, or just staggering sidesteps?
It’s almost like the ultimate goal is for all pubs to be closed.
Alcohol duties and NI increase? Not the cost of living crisis, then?
It’s not that we’re struggling to keep our houses warm, due to how much it costs and have bugger all disposable income for going down to the pub?
Let’s not forget brewery fees. We have a local pub that shuts down every 18 months, the brewery gets a new person to run it rinse and repeat.
They come in for a year heavily discounted on fees on the kegs and alcohol – but the brewery owned building means you can only supply with them.
Every single person coming in and stated it’s cheaper to source kegs elsewhere which would make it profitable to ru , it’s even cheap to nip to Tesco for spirits most of the time – but as part of your contract you need to obviously use the brewery.
It’s a tough industry to survive in especially if you can’t offer good – they get the place working (minus a lack of capital investment as the inside really needs work) the people running it can’t make it work so leave.
Brewery then leaves it closed instead of trying to work on seeing if they can reduce their supply costs and offer the same deal to the next person.
I think a lot of people just dropped the habit during covid and never picked it up again, I used to go a couple of times a week pre covid, I find other things to do, so now barely go once a month for drinking, more for eating.
Isn’t this another problem that ultimately is caused by our out of control property prices and the associated rents? There’s a good reason all these business are struggling to stay a float and it’s something to do with the thousand sof pounds they need to turn over just to keep their landlords 3rd home stocked with Freedo bars
Pay no attention to the breweries sucking up the lionshare of the pubs profits.
All part of the plan appeasing muslims until islam dominates. Haram alohol innit bruv 🙏
Of course alcohol duties and NI increase have had an impact on British pubs…. But, a collapse in the number of customers going to pubs, especially post Covid Pandemic has nothing to do with the unprofitability of British pubs? Oh no! Of course not!! That wouldn’t fit the mainstream media’s political narrative now would it?!
Let the failing ones close. It seems we no longer want pubs, and that’s ok.
Alternative title: one in three pubs need a better accountant.
Your average pub punter has less disposable income than usual.
Pints in a pub? Upwards of £6. (Outside of wetherspoons)
*Can’t* cut costs by “saving” on energy or rent.
*Can* cut costs by saving on not going out to eat or drink.
Not saying pubs are doing well, but isn’t the aim of many small businesses to show close to zero profit for tax purposes? The owner may still be paying themselves or taking value out of the business in other pre profit ways. It’s the same with farms, which generally show close to no profit consistently yet the farmer keeps it going because he’s getting his value out of the business via various other means such as paying his family members etc.
I work in ultrasound and we get a ket bladder in a young person at least once a week. It’s been replaced by ketamine which objectively is worse as it causes incontinence. At least the liver regenerates if it’s not push beyond tipping point. The bladder does not regenerate.
Alternative narrative: beer ties and exorbitant rents make previously thriving businesses unviable. But no it’s the taxes that are the problem…