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mitchells and butler - one of the uk's biggest pub companies has been actively changing all its bars/pubs into eateries/restaurants.

wet sales are not looking promising so they've made a conscious decision to either convert them it food sale leaders or sell them off to other companies.

loads of barracuda's/varsity's etc are up for grabs - o neills are being sold off where they deem them as wet lead pubs - the blackburn one has been sold

they've sold all the bowling alleys - like the one in bolton. hollywood bowls

alot of the smaller pubs have taken the chop too - either closing them or putting their lease up for grabs.