What is it about Christmas, people are obviously having to tighten their belts thanks to "cheesy" Truss and her crystal ball so why do people suspend belief during Xmas.
Pubs are advertising "Christmas dinner menus", a typical one is 3 courses for £53pp on Christmas day, that means each person is going to burn up the equivalent of the price of a weeks shopping for nothing more than a glorified Sunday dinner......madness.
I have always maintained that {especially} pub staff should have Xmas day off, they have families too. Years ago most pubs opened for Xmas dinner with just the landlord and landlady serving, but now they are managers wanting staff to work because the brewery's force them too, besides if you would rather waste £50 each when £20 would feed your whole family at home your maybe not as badly off as you imagined.
Anyway why book for Xmas.......the pub may end up not be trading by then!!!