Soaring gas, food and staffing costs have made some pubs move away hot meals.
In the kitchen at the Ypres Castle Inn in Rye, tables and chairs are stacked where a chef used to cook meals.
But industry data suggests drinks-only pubs, which are owned by a chain, had stronger sales than gastropubs for every month of 2022. It looks to be paying off - profits for 2022 at his independent pub were "close to the best years we had before the pandemic", he said. December was his best month of sales on record, he added."They do really, really good bar snacks here, " she said.
"Ten years ago it was food, food, food - that was how we were told to make money. Now for smaller pubs it's just not worth it," he said.Back at the Ypres Castle Inn, Mr Bell said pub managers who are tied to buying alcohol from the big pub landlord companies had often switched focus to full menus as a way of having more control over their profit margins - but now the cost of that commitment has soared.
Drinks-only pubs, where food might be limited to crisps or maybe a pork pie, had sales growth that outstripped those of food-led gastropubs for every month of 2022 in the 'managed' sub-sector where pub companies own and run the site. Higher energy costs, food prices and a difficulty finding and retaining staff contributed to the closures.
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