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Easy question to answer. Most likely extortionate rent. We took a tenancy of a very busy pub here in 2010 and had to pull 9 months later having lost ?500 a week. If we hadn't been tied to the awful local brewery we would been fine and in profit. Breweries don't seem to realise that they are to blame as much as lack of trade and most don't care regarding tenancies. It's just a revolving door for the next mug to come through !
The pub in question will shortly close because nobody who goes in it can make it profitable for themselves so unless the brewery manage it, it will close. The brewery are selfish idiots !

closed!? Gutted - used to enjoy a drink there. Whats the Shakespeare like across the road?

It's the same where I live. The problem is that we are very close to the city centre and as the prices are not much different people head straight into the city centre.

What I find strange though is that the ones who complain about pubs shutting down (and I am not saying it is anybody here) are the same people that very rarely drank in them in the first place.