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The shape of the humble pub is changing. As we have heard before, and often discussed on here in the past, they are closing at an alarming rate. Some brave soul tries to open them up again but they soon go dark all over again. A pub nearish to me, not mentioning any names, has had more re-openings with new landlords than Ive had hot dinners. They try, even try food, but soon fall on their sword all over again.
Although lots of people talk up the notion of a good oul pub like BarryW does there, very few actually go out and drink in the things on a rainy tuesday night and thats the problem.
It seems to be the only way forward is to include the full family option, with food. The big chains as we see locally, Im not sure if they are classed as restaurants or in fact modern day pubs, seem to be packing them in...living across the carpark from a major local player I can see the tooing and froing. The customers that go to these places would once have gone to the humble pub, but these giants of modern marketing have sucked all the customers away, and once seduced few go back to the old ways.
Still room though for the small cosy chatty pub especially if there is a bit of life in it. Some of these will survive, and some will even thrive, lets hope so. But I suspect there will be fewer of them and indeed that might even be a good thing, because then the fewer might be able to make a real go of it and make a comfortable living...ensuring survival.