28/09/2026
Heres how the The Grumpy Landlord explains the price of a fredo theory.
Worth a read. 🍺👍🏻
🍺 PUBS ARE SO EXPENSIVE: PART 3 🍫
Ok, let’s look at this again, in the only way that EVERYONE understands the economy…
⏳ Minimum wage in 2005 was £5.05 and a Freddo was 10p.
🤩 One hour of work got you 50 Freddos!
Fast forward to 2026…
⏳ Minimum wage is £12.71 and a Freddo is 35p.
😢 One hour of work now only gets you 36 of them!
That's a 152% rise in pay, but a 250% rise in the cost of delicious frog-shaped chocolate bars! 📈
If wages had kept pace with the price of Freddos, the minimum wage would now be £17.68 an hour! 💸
By comparison:
⏳ Minimum wage in 2005 would buy you roughly 2 pints of b**r per hour.
⏳ Now, in 2026, it will buy you about 2.5 pints!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: pubs are not expensive. 📣
The cost of living is horrific. The external pressures on all of our finances right now are soul-destroying. We get it. Everyone is fu***ng skint. Everyone is struggling! 😰
But stop blaming pubs.
We are not being “greedy”.
Most landlords are earning less than ever - personally, I earn less than £6/hr for the hours I work, and I know a lot of publicans are earning even less! 😔
We are effectively subsidising you being able to have a pint!
Because if I charged what I needed to in order to earn a decent wage myself, I’d be selling b**r at £12 a pint right now! 💸😢
TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW! 👇👇👇
Because I’m, somehow, still getting the “but, they ARE expensive because…” comments! 🙄
