The scale of pub dining is not fully appreciated by many, but this week’s Christmas figures from Greene King provide an insight.
Pub retailer and brewer Greene King says it will be welcoming more than 63,000 customers into its pubs, restaurants and hotels on Christmas Day itself. Furthermore, more than half a million customers will be having Christmas dinner with Greene King during the festive season.
Customers are expected to get through approximately 2.5million Brussels sprouts, nearly a million pigs in blankets, and almost 30 tonnes of Christmas pudding in Greene King pubs over the festive season.
Attractions of eating out on Christmas Day
Recent figures reveal that the cost of the average Christmas dinner at home has risen to £106, with turkey and sprout prices up nearly 20%.
Families traditionally spend hours planning Christmas dinner, buying all the ingredients, then preparing and creating the expected feast. This is inevitably followed by the enormous pile of washing up, and the unwelcome energy and water bills arriving in January.
On the other hand, a four-course Christmas dinner at a Greene King pub on Christmas Day starts at just £26.95. As Greene King chief executive, Rooney Anand, comments: “Christmas dinner is a critical part of the day and more and more people are choosing to spend it in one of our pubs, leaving behind the stress of preparing, cooking and clearing-up. “Our teams do all the work, the waiting and the washing-up, leaving our customers free to relax on the big day.”
Greene King’s 1,000 pubs, restaurants and hotels include Hungry Horse, Loch Fyne Seafood & Grill and Belhaven pubs in Scotland.
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