JP McManus-backed UK pubs group sees 'challenging' inflation likely to persist

Group warns cost-of-living crisis may affect consumers' ability to spend in its pubs

Mitchells & Butlers owns 1,600 pubs and restaurants, including All Bar One.

Mitchells & Butlers, the huge pubs and restaurants in Britain in which JP McManus and John Magnier own a significant shareholding, has said the outlook for prices, wage pressures, and costs inflation was "challenging". 

The group owns 1,600 pubs and restaurants, including All Bar One, Browns, Ember Inns, Harvester, Miller & Carter, Nicholson's, Sizzling Pubs, Toby Carvery and Vintage Inns, and employs 40,000 people. It was anticipating a large rebound from the two years of restrictions and closures during the Covid-19 crisis.