Prices putting pub-goers off their lunch
Updated on 16 October 2007
Pubs are being urged to rein in their rising food prices - or risk losing customers.
A survey has found a two-course lunch and a glass of wine now costs on average £20.
Forking out £40 for a pub meal for two will be "quite a deterrent" to customers, the Good Pub Guide 2008 warns.
A survey of 1,069 pub menus showed a starter and main course cost on average £16.76, with the bill including a single glass of wine hitting £20.
The guide book's editors found a typical pub main meal such as steak and kidney pie now costs an average £10.50.
Around 1.1 billion pub meals are served in the UK every year, with pubs increasingly relying on food sales in the wake of the smoking ban, according to the guide.
But the price of pub food has "soared" in recent years and customers are starting to get worried.
The Good Pub Guide 2008 names the Nags Head in Malvern, Worcestershire the pub of the year.
The Fat Cat in Norwich won the title of beer pub of the year and The Appletree in Marton, Yorkshire, is national dining pub of the year.
The Good Pub Guide, now in its 26th edition, includes listing for some 5,000 pubs across the UK.
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