Wage rises will put 30p on a pint, says pub chain

The price of a pint of beer will have to rise by as much as 30p to help pay for higher wages and energy costs, one pub owner has warned.

"It makes beer duty, business rates and VAT cuts in the Budget on Wednesday all the more important for the viability of our sector," she added.Chancellor Rishi Sunak's latest Budget, to be delivered later on Wednesday, comes as the pub trade is still recovering from lockdown measures imposed during the coronavirus pandemic.

"That's basically kept the industry on life support, but we're coming off life support now and we need to be able to have a road to recovery," Mr Watson told the BBC. But now it faces further challenges - not just minimum wage rises, but also higher energy and food costs, as well as employers' national insurance contributions going up next April.

Cost push inflation ftw. Almost as if they want 'the Great Reset'.

Pubs are about to cut their own throats, they massively put up the price of a pint during the COVID lockdowns and now this?

Not a big issue. GreenKing have virtually taken over our area. Several times had bad egg beer. Food is now disgusting. So this will kill us off completely from going.

Drinkers can afford it!

Couldn't care less I don't drink

Well yes, that’s pretty obvious, it will stoke inflation. Any increases will be passed on rather than absorbed. The Government, rather RishiSunak is talking of a target of £10 minimum wage for the future. More like Labour than Conservatives.

It seems like yesterday when it was bad news when the chancellor put a penny on a pint. That's one of those old fashion 240 to a pound pennies.

Ive already reduced pub visits from 3 x a week to once a week and intake from 4 pints per visit to 2 per visit. I’ll just reduce consumption further. I won’t spend extra money. Cheaper to buy from supermarket anyway. I can get 19 cans of lager for price of 3 pub pints.

This is good news , Brexiteers wanted wages to increase.

I'd rather see cost increases in luxury items like enjoying a beer in a pub, than increases in basic costs of living such as gas and electricity.

Haven't went to pubs in years,far too expensive.

£6 for a pint in London have put me off pubs altogether, anyway. Work needs decent pay, anywhere, anyhow. Businesses relying on cheap staff deserve what they get.

Suck it up and pay up!

I recently worked at a pop up bar at a venue to help a mate. Two hours £837 taken. Two barrels of beer, two taps. I’m not a math genius. The 30p a pint claim is just greed.

This tory government are making an absolute shambles of your country. The damage is going to be off the scale, just incase anyone believes they are doing a good job

Hard drugs it is.

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