Goodbye WFH, hello WFP (working from a pub) this winter
In the historic Cutty Sark pub in Greenwich, south-east London, the cat Mahela purrs and curls up near the bar, a coffee machine hisses and a group of heads are carefully tilted on laptops below the hull of a 19th-century paddle steamer.
At the bar, education writer Jen, who works at this Thames-side pub a few days a month since becoming a mother Young's brewery has brought its £15 Work from Pub (WFP) packages in 2020, talks to staff. "It definitely beats the water cooler," she says.
Throughout the UK, conversations about water coolers are giving way to jokes about the bar as laptop workers migrate to their local liquors and the abbreviation PAM joins those 2020s neologisms WFH (work from home) and, most importantly, WFA (work abroad).
zd ="zdcr-/> Pubs are bracing for a tough ride this fall as suppliers roll back the long-term fixed-price energy contracts that many have relied on. The government's energy support program introduced in September offered businesses 'equivalent' bill support to that given to households, but this will only partially offset the pressures on hotel providers from rising costs. energy bills, food and drink prices and staff costs, and the impact of belt-tightening Brits.
Many pubs have already seen their bills double in recent months, and campaign ads that depend fuel oil and liquefied natural gas receive very little support from the government plan.
In August, the Fontmell, a Michelin-recommended gastropub in North Dorset, announced it would close, citing a £58,000 rise in utility costs. In July, Gillygate, a historic public house in York whose energy bills had risen from £900 to £2,500 a month, announced its closure after 300 years in business.
Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge, who runs three gastropubs in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, says it's a "frankly terrifying...
In the historic Cutty Sark pub in Greenwich, south-east London, the cat Mahela purrs and curls up near the bar, a coffee machine hisses and a group of heads are carefully tilted on laptops below the hull of a 19th-century paddle steamer.
At the bar, education writer Jen, who works at this Thames-side pub a few days a month since becoming a mother Young's brewery has brought its £15 Work from Pub (WFP) packages in 2020, talks to staff. "It definitely beats the water cooler," she says.
Throughout the UK, conversations about water coolers are giving way to jokes about the bar as laptop workers migrate to their local liquors and the abbreviation PAM joins those 2020s neologisms WFH (work from home) and, most importantly, WFA (work abroad).
zd ="zdcr-/> Pubs are bracing for a tough ride this fall as suppliers roll back the long-term fixed-price energy contracts that many have relied on. The government's energy support program introduced in September offered businesses 'equivalent' bill support to that given to households, but this will only partially offset the pressures on hotel providers from rising costs. energy bills, food and drink prices and staff costs, and the impact of belt-tightening Brits.
Many pubs have already seen their bills double in recent months, and campaign ads that depend fuel oil and liquefied natural gas receive very little support from the government plan.
In August, the Fontmell, a Michelin-recommended gastropub in North Dorset, announced it would close, citing a £58,000 rise in utility costs. In July, Gillygate, a historic public house in York whose energy bills had risen from £900 to £2,500 a month, announced its closure after 300 years in business.
Celebrity chef Tom Kerridge, who runs three gastropubs in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, says it's a "frankly terrifying...
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