The chain will reduce prices by 7.5 in pubs across the UK and Ireland on Thursday.
Wetherspoons pubs are cutting the prices of all food and drinks for one day this week in a bid to highlight the tax burden on the hospitality industry.It means that, for example, a customer spending £10 on food and drinks will pay £9.25 for one day only.
Prices in Scotland will be reduced on food and non-alcoholic drinks, in line with Scottish licensing laws. The group’s founder and chairman, Tim Martin, said: “The biggest threat to the hospitality industry is the vast disparity in tax treatment among pubs, restaurants and supermarkets.“This tax benefit allows supermarkets to subsidise the selling price of beer.
It means that the hospitality industry is subsiding supermarkets because of the tax rules, Mr Martin argued.Wetherspoons founder and chairman Tim Martin said tax disparity is the ‘biggest threat to the hospitality industry’
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