One in five London late night bars and clubs have shut since 2020
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/nightclubs-bars-pandemic-late-night-drinking-b1244440.html
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One in five London late night bars and clubs have shut since 2020
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/nightclubs-bars-pandemic-late-night-drinking-b1244440.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
16 Comments
Gosh, it’s like people don’t have the money to pay for expensive entry fees and overpriced drinks any more.
Not sure if “Night Time Deserts” will ever be a thing, it’s hardly an essential.
A great victory for London’s councils; run by NIMBYs, for NIMBYs.
But the mayor told me London has the best nightlife in the world!
Rents obviously aren’t helping but the lifespan of these places have never been long. I can also think of several that have opened within that timespan too.
The cost of travel, entry, drinks, food, pretty much everything cost an absolute fortune. Is it any wonder why people are choosing not to go out anymore?
I live in the North-East and a crate of 12 cans is £9 at Tesco, if I go out and bought the same amount of alcohol in a pub, it’d be 3-4 times of that easily and that’s at the cheapest bars and pubs.
Buying your own drink and making your own entertainment is a no-brainer when you’re paying so much more to go out.
Last time i went to London we bought most drinks at off-liscense and drunk them on the street…
Also pubs closing at 3:00? Too early for a European capital
They should paint some St. Georges on roundabouts. The nightlife will still be shit but it will be patriotic
Yeah it’s noticeable. When done right they can be a proper British staple.
To be fair that only 20% have closed seems low? In hospitality the success rate of a new place in the best of times is really low like 50% close in their first two years or something. An oversaturated business because it’s a dream for so many to own their own bar/restaurant/club.
Five years is a long time in that business so for 80% to still be here at a time when the rest of the industry is declining massively due to macroeconomic effects is actually fairly resilient, no?
And how they want to reverse this trend? They want to force people to go? Tax spending quiet evening at home? 😀
Almost like the market should adapt to the demand and lower it’s prices.
Only 1 in 5 over 5 years? That’s actually surprisingly low. Like stupidly low.
When you factor in how quickly popular nightclubs go in and out of fashion, the average failure rate for businesses of this type, the general trend away from drinking culture and people’s spending habits it’s almost a miracle that only 20% have closed their doors.
Not to mention the pandemic that literally had all these places on lockdown for a good portion of that time!
Like seriously, how is anyone looking at all of this and saying 20% loss is bad?
Places like Melbourne are better London doesn’t have a 24 hour club like Revolver
I used to be able to go out on £30 including chicken on the way back. This wasnt even THAT long ago. Now that’s the entry fee.
Sadly it’s just a leftover from a bygone era and soon clubs will be a thing of the past. I assume this will lead to some kind of kitsch renaissance, but never to any real extent.
I used to love it, but now id rather go to a pub and there isnt that generation beneath me that grew up on it.
I used to be able to go out with 20 quid. Get shit faced and have enough for a kebab and my bus home.
Now 20 quid would get me 3 pints. A few months a go I visited the UK to see family and friends and nearly died getting the first round in.
Stopped going out ages ago. £7 a pint absolutely no chance im paying that. Now pubs are adding a service charge for pouring a pint. Shocked pikachu face on why they are closing down