âWe canât increase prices any moreâ: UK hospitality firms hit by cost triple blow
Struggling pubs reel from rising business rates, wages and energy bills, with customers at limit of what they will payNick Evans is staring in vain at columns of numbers, trying to make them add up to a profit. He is a co-owner of the Old Crown Coaching Inn in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, a pub and hotel whose rich history is etched into its crooked wooden beams and cosy snugs.Oliver Cromwell stayed here in 1645. A room believed to have been used by the notoriously severe âhanging judgeâ Lord Jeffreys to condemn rebels now stages happier encounters: it is the honeymoon suite. Continue reading...
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