{"id":296628,"date":"2025-07-27T19:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296628\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T19:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T19:27:17","slug":"brewdog-leeds-staff-gutted-at-closure-of-citys-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296628\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewdog Leeds staff &#8216;gutted&#8217; at closure of city&#8217;s bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following the announcement of the closures, a Brewdog spokesperson said &#8220;rising costs, increased regulation, and economic pressures&#8221; had contributed to the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite our best efforts, and the hard work of our teams, it has simply not been possible to make these bars commercially viable,&#8221; they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This decision is not simply a response to the challenging UK hospitality market, but a proactive decision to redefine the bar division&#8217;s focus for long-term and profitable growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alcohol culture expert Dan Harwood said changing drinking habits posed a problem for pubs, but that towns and cities &#8220;absolutely&#8221; still needed venues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Young people&#8217;s attitudes to going out and to drinking culture are changing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But even within moderation and reducing alcohol, it doesn&#8217;t mean everyone is alcohol-free. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There will always be challenges, but it&#8217;s about making sure you resonate with your audience and making sure that what you are doing and offering is what people want.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the announcement of the closures, a Brewdog spokesperson said &#8220;rising costs, increased regulation, and economic pressures&#8221; had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-296628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114926848918541787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}