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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

REVEALED: Wetherspoons resumes staff bonus with boss tim martin optimistic price pressures will ease | Rare Historical Photos

JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin today said price pressures in the pub trade are “ferocious” but he offered optimism that the worst is past.

For the half-year, profits crashed 91% to £4.6 million compared to 2019 when the pandemic struck, a sign of the strain on an industry still recovering from Covid.

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