Wetherspoon's expects a 'reasonable' outcome for the year after unseasonably warm weather helped the group weather higher costs at the start of the year.
Morrisons said yesterday it was a 'necessary' measure following what the chain called 'recent significant cost increases' - a less-than-subtle attack on the Chancellor's war on employers.
Thomas Batsford mistakenly sent the email containing 'serious allegations' to every Wetherspoons in the east of England rather than just his regional manager, a tribunal heard.
Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has raised the cost of alcohol drinks including Guinness, Sharp's Doom Bar, Bulmers cider, Gordon's gin, Smirnoff vodka, Teresa Rizzi Prosecco.