Around 17 million pints would be sold in pubs on Sunday during the Euro 2020 final if it wasn’t for the continuation of social distancing restrictions. Instead, nearly 13 million are expected to be sold, according to the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), as pubs across the country struggle to break even. The Guardian has the story.
Billed as the closest thing to being in the stadium itself, sales in bars or pubs showing sport are usually 200-300% higher on big match days during a normal year. However, capacity constraints mean although sales during Euro 2020 are up about 60% on match days, that is only in comparison with poor takings over the past
Covid-hit[lockdown-hit] year.“We are seeing an uplift in drinks sales on match days but because of capacity constraints it is nowhere near as much as it would usually be,” said Kate Nicholls, the Chief Executive of industry trade body U.K. Hospitality. As a rule, pubs were only taking 70% of their usual sales which was not enough to break even, she said.
In Norwich, Dawn Hopkins said her pub, the Rose Inn, will be full, although at the moment that means just 30 customers. “We are obviously fully booked,” she said. “I’ve been turning away people for weeks who want to watch the football but social distancing and the need to be seated limits our capacity. I think everybody’s grateful to be trading again but it’s still very difficult.”
The BBPA estimates nearly 13 million pints will be sold on Sunday, with 7.1 million during the match itself. That total would be nearer 17 million but for Covid restrictions, which mean venues are at 50-60% of normal capacity.
Fuller’s, a pub owner in London and the south-east, said most of its 209 venues were fully booked on Sunday but it could have “taken a lot more” were it not for the “disappointing” restrictions. “It has brought people together though and pubs are the next best thing to being there,” the company added.
Greg Mulholland, of the Campaign for Pubs organisation, said the Euros had brought welcome extra trade but pubs were struggling, with table service challenging and costly. Some landlords said they had been warned by licensing officials they could be fined if fans got carried away, and he hoped the authorities took a “common-sense approach”.
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It’ll be fine, because here come the mandatory Social Credit Score apps to Save Our Pubs. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9774653/Covid-passports-compulsory-pubs-clubs-restaurants-prevent-fourth-wave.html All utterly inevitable, all completely predictable, and completely predicted. Creep, creep, creep goes the mission. First pubs, then non-essential retail, then Supermarkets to Save Christmas. You want to Save Our Christmas, don’t you, citizen? “In autumn vaccine passports could become an important tool that will allow us to keep things open.” This is the language they’re going to use. Social Credit Apps are on our side, fighting with us against the lockdowns being imposed by… forces unknown. But until Our Science finds out what perfidious fiends keep closing down the country, Our Apps are our best defence against their nefarious plots. On spy-and-inform: “The new director of the UK Health Security Agency Dr Jenny Harries said experts were looking to tweak the [spy-and-inform] device to take account of people who have received at least two doses of the vaccine”. Boosters to the moon, lads. And after you’ve held out your app in supplication and begged for permission, just once, you’ll never object again. That’s it. The State owns you, forever. We’ll never, ever come back from there. At this point the only real… Read more »
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My brother has made it a condition of employment in his business that staff do not use the spy-and-snitch app, and he’s advised them in no uncertain terms that if they don’t show up because they’ve been advised not to, then it comes out of their holiday allowance.
We’ve been told that business can choose to enforce the use of spy-and-snitch or the social credit score app, so it only seems fair that they can prohibit them as well, right?
Wow – it sounds as if you have two sane, Homo Sapiens members in the same family! Is this a world record? (Actually, no, my family also has two!)
We have six
There’s five of us. And some new emerging friends!
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Excellent. Good on your brother for standing up to this. Lead by example and others will follow.
I love pubs. They are my favourite places to be in the world. Despite all the ridiculous rules and regulations that are in place, I’ve still used them extensively whenever they’ve been allowed to open since this shitshow began. But I will say that the pub industry on the whole did not fight hard enough against the government over this. They meekly rolled over and let it happen. The best pubs are the ones playing lip service to the rules. These are the ones I frequent. The ones that bark at you and constantly tell you what you should or should not be doing will no longer get my custom. And even when (if) things get back to normal won’t either. I shall not forgive. I shall not forget.
I too love pubs but if I need to show my medical history to get inside them, they can fuck off. Agreed that the whole industry was far too compliant – and silent.