Brits urged to drink 124 pints each to help struggling pubs get back on their feet

[Northerner]

Pub-goers will need to drink 124 pints this summer to save the nation’s food and beverage industry, finance experts have claimed.
The industry needs a £25.66 billion boost to return to pre-pandemic levels after a year of forced closures resulted in record losses.
Finance experts Company Debt say drastic drinking would be the best way of saving struggling hospitality businesses and to protect pubs from facing closures as a result of lockdown.

Its website states: "With the latest estimates suggesting that the UK’s food and beverage industry lost at least £25.66bn due to Covid-19 we wondered how much every person in the UK would need to spend in order to reach pre-pandemic levels.

"In particular we wondered how far that money would go in pubs, one of the most beleaguered sectors.

Brits urged to drink 124 pints each to help struggling pubs

Pub-goers will need to drink 124 pints this summer to save the nation’s food and beverage industry, finance experts have claimed.

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Hmm... 🙄 Doesn't sound very healthy! 😱

 

[Thebearcametoo]

That would be one hell of a hang over

 

[Andy HB]

I haven't drunk 124 pints in the five years prior to covid. It would probably kill my liver to do that in a 3 month period!

 

[Peely66]

I'd gladly help out but I only need to smell beer and I'm a bit tipsy these days.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I was fully expecting the link to be to a NewsThump article!

 

[Ditto]

They did for the pubs anyways when they banned smoking. 🙄

 

[Deleted member 21371]

I'll try my best.
124 pints, 4 months, 17 weeks, a pint a day.

 

[trophywench]

Somebody else will have to drink my share too - never been all that keen on beer meself.

 

[Drummer]

I went out tonight to meet and plan some dancing, and the pub was very empty. They closed up quite early.

 

[mikeyB]

I haven’t drunk a pint of beer for around five years, and haven’t had a hangover since 1987. So sorry, can’t help the brewing industry. That’s not say I haven’t helped the distilleries in my time, in a small way, but all this has been since I discovered that you can have much more fun sober than drunk.

 

[atoll]

stopped drinking in pubs when local ale went from £1.80 to £2.00 and smoking was outlawed inside.....

 

[nonethewiser]

Happy to contribute.