Family-run Shropshire pub to close as soaring food and energy costs hit home

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Family-run Shropshire pub to close as soaring food and energy costs hit home
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The family will be calling last orders this weekend.

Dawn Davies said her family had been forced to make the 'heartbreaking decision' to terminate their lease at the Horse and Jockey in Ellesmere Road, Northwood.

The family had taken on the lease during lockdown in November 2020 and early signs had been positive. "We put a lot of work, building up the outside dining area and we were as busy when that was in place than if we had been open fully because we could still cater for customers in the garden."When we first took over the VAT rate was five per cent, which was good, but it literally went to 20 per cent as everything else rose in cost – the price of the minimum wage went up and price of food in some cases has quadrupled.

"The rent you pay is a drop in the ocean compared to the bills coming out of this place. Prices have gone up so massively and you can't charge the people coming in what you need to charge so we have got to a point where we just haven't been able to survive."

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