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Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

Wetherspoons resumes staff bonus with boss Tim Martin optimistic price pressures will ease

JD Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin today said price pressures in the pub trade are “ferocious” but he offered optimism that the worst is past.

For the half-year, profits crashed 91% to £4.6 million compared to 2019 when the pandemic struck, a sign of the strain on an industry still recovering from Covid.

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