Inflation & Prices

Pubs and Restaurants Hit by 15% Inflation in UK Food Costs

  • Wetherspoon says post-pandemic boom has failed to materialize
  • Milk, eggs, cheese and oils have sharply risen in price

Pub and restaurant prices were up 2% compared to July.

Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg
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Food inflation has hit 15% for Britain’s pubs and restaurants as the cost of buying ingredients keeps rising.

The price of food and non-alcoholic drinks supplied to the UK’s hospitality sector climbed again in August, according to the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index, having recorded double-digit inflation every month since February.