Ditch Dry Jan to save pubs?

Come on chaps!
It will be a tough job, but someone’s got to do it!

I'm in

Encouraging people to drink alcohol is a bad thing health wise. Maybe nonalcoholic drinks and food should be pushed more like a cafe style. When I go garden centres they seem to do a roaring trade. I have read today that younger people are drinking less than previous generations out of choice.

Boringly -and please feel free to ignore this suggestion - I suspect the highest profit margins are on soft drinks and bar snacks/food.
So you could satisfy both requirements (but only if you really wanted to)

I'm not sure keeping pubs open is encouraging people to drink. I love our local pub. We go to the weekly quiz night. It's a lovely social event. We only have two glasses of wine. People will drink if they are so inclined whether pubs stay open or not.

Soft drinks are just as bad for you as alk, full of sugar. They should ban those first.

Seems like a good idea. Not much of a frequenter of pubs but local restaurants, especially independent ones, seem important to support. Have noble organised a Burns lunch for the appropriate day later this month and we have a club outing for dinner on Saturday to another small local place.

Oh lighten up, please! Nobody is advocating getting blotto or overdosing on tooth-rotting Coca Cola!

Light-hearted- remember that?

According to paper review, this came from Daily Star
www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/booze-lose--join-daily-28849576

Maybe we need to become more continental - hot chocolate, coffee, tea even.
It's up to the pubs to adapt - but then, most are owned by breweries.
Certain chains seem to have embraced this year's ago like Wetherspoons, Beefeater etc where it's acceptable to take children and offer event nights - our local chain pub has Clairvoyant evenings for example.

Why is it my job to keep pubs open. It's their job to get me through the door.

Well I usually do dry January

Last night I was half down a very nice glass of Viognier when I remembered it was 01/01/23, consequently I have decided on damp January

Every little helps, and I like to be helpful. If by having a meal and a drink whether it be alcoholic or soft in a local hostelry helps to keep them afloat I am happy to oblige 🍷🍽️🥗🥙

We couldn't drink in our local not that we would want to. He closes for Christmas and New year. He also has half the village banned, so not a pleasant place.
An arsonist has burned down our lovely Bistro pup which we would typically visit next week!!! I don't live in a rough area of a city but a quiet country village

The drink police will be out in force.

I suspect the highest profit margins are on soft drinks and bar snacks/food.

That’s correct but unless things have changed since my pub landlady days back in the nineties, the rent you pay on a tenancy or lease often relates to your beer sales. Breweries are more often than not the landlords so the more beer you sell, the more favourable the rent and price deals on their products.

No doubt pub landlords will be glad to see any customers, regardless of what they spend their money on to help cover the astronomical fuel costs but they won’t want their alcohol sales to go down - especially beer.

We support our local and will continue, it’s a hub of our community, coffee, hot chocolate etc available, but it doesn’t sell food, yet. It does have mums and tots twice a week, quiz night, bingo night, various table top sales and a weekly meat draw. Any works needed on your house, it’s full of tradesmen, who won’t rip you off. Anyone local in trouble, search parties, fundraisers, all covered.
Doubt my halves of shandy put much in the coffers, but it all helps.

Our pub just down the road is also more than a pub. They serve food, tea, coffee, have entertainment some nights. They put on pantomimes for the children at Christmas. They fund raise for a different charity each year. They have the 'animal man' who brings animals for children to see. It's wonderful.

nanna8

Soft drinks are just as bad for you as alk, full of sugar. They should ban those first.

But soft drinks don’t lead to anti social behaviour or drink driving

MawtheMerrier

Boringly -and please feel free to ignore this suggestion - I suspect the highest profit margins are on soft drinks and bar snacks/food.
So you could satisfy both requirements (but only if you really wanted to)

The highest profits are as you suspect, on soft drinks and mixers. Probably food as well, but I always think I’m paying for the company and the enjoyment of not having to cook.
Like the pub near Kate1949, our local pub is happy to serve hot drinks and food whether you buy a pint or not. It fills up the pub.

I like the idea of a “slightly moist january”.. our local pub is great and I like to support them. White wine and soda it is!

nanna8

Soft drinks are just as bad for you as alk, full of sugar. They should ban those first.

But aspartame is even worse 😲

I'll have a diluted wine too, please, aka a Spritzer.

[Babs758]what’s a moist January-never heard of this saying?

No one can say I’m not helpful, will do my best to help fill the tills.

Jaxjacky

We support our local and will continue, it’s a hub of our community, coffee, hot chocolate etc available, but it doesn’t sell food, yet. It does have mums and tots twice a week, quiz night, bingo night, various table top sales and a weekly meat draw. Any works needed on your house, it’s full of tradesmen, who won’t rip you off. Anyone local in trouble, search parties, fundraisers, all covered.
Doubt my halves of shandy put much in the coffers, but it all helps.

Wow! Do you live in Emmerdale?