Its Too Quiet.

Whilst out and about last night I visited one of our drinking establishments at eight thirty and was surprised to find only one customer in the bar. After a while that customer left and the woman tending the bar retired to play the fruit machine, which she continued to do until I left about half an hour later.

We are lucky here in still having three punubs when its estimated that nationwide, five pubs a day are closing. Fewer customers leads to a lack of atmosphere and creates a vicious circle whereby the pub gewts used less and less with the obvious final outcome. Another consequence is that staff become demoralised and lose interest in their job.

Whilst belt tightening due to the economic crisis is inevitable if we want to preserve what we have pubwise, there is something we can do over the coming festive season, that is to spread our trade amongst our three pubs just a little more then we might have previously. I think its going to be a case of use it or lose it.