British Pub Crisis! UK Losing 52 Bars Per Week
Here in the states, we’ve been keeping a close eye on what restaurants and bars are having trouble making it through the recession, but we figure not too many consumers are shedding tears, since it’s high-end eateries that seem to be having the most trouble.
But we’re hearing some frightening news from across the pond, where the hardest-hit businesses in Britain are also one of the country’s prime tourist draws: good old-fashioned pubs. Local pubs in the UK have been having such a rough go of it that a new report indicates they’re closing at the rate of 52 per week. Yep, that’s an astonishing 2,377 pubs lost in the past year!
Fortunately, as anyone who’s set foot on British soil can tell you, there’s still a lot of pubs left in the kingdom (some 53,466, which even at the current alarming rate of pub loss, could keep Britain stocked in drinking holes for a good quarter-century’s worth of recessions).
One potential silver lining: the research suggests bars that provided food were far more resilient to the recession. Long live the gastropubs; perish the classic dive?
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· UK 'is losing 52 pubs each week' [BBC]
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