JD Wetherspoon puts €12m cost on preparing pubs for the new normal

The Linen Weaver on Paul Street, Cork which opened in 2015. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

British pub group JD Wetherspoon has spelled out in detail what the typical “new normal” bar experience for its customers will be like when pubs reopen – and has costed the necessary retrofit of its UK and Irish pubs at an initial £11m (€12.2m).