{"id":269597,"date":"2020-11-30T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=269597"},"modified":"2020-11-30T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T12:12:56","slug":"finish-your-pint-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/finish-your-pint-says-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFinish Your Pint\u201d, Says Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Environment Secretary George Eustice has revealed that pub-goers will be allowed to finish their pints once lockdown is lifted.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10260\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10260\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/97670802_corrie-pub-suffolkploice-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/97670802_corrie-pub-suffolkploice-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/97670802_corrie-pub-suffolkploice.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pub owners are likely looking forward to reopening.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There has been a bit of confusion regarding tier 2 pub rules, where the government said there will be\u00a0\u201cno lingering\u201d, and visitors must leave \u201conce their meal is finished\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The rules also say you can only get an alcoholic drink with a sizeable meal. Some people were under the impression you had to leave as soon as you were finished, but an MP has revealed this is not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>He told Sky News: \u201cI think you can finish your drink provided you\u2019re at a table and you\u2019ve had a drink with a meal then, of course, you can finish your drink as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you probably couldn\u2019t do is have a small meal and then sit at the table all night ordering drink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Current rules may hit Tier 2 pubs hard, as an estimated 14k out of the 21k pubs which will be in Tier 2 areas will probably stay closed, due to not being able to serve food.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Secretary George Eustice has revealed that pub-goers will be allowed to finish their pints once lockdown is lifted.\u00a0 There has been a bit of confusion regarding tier 2 pub rules, where the government said there will be\u00a0\u201cno lingering\u201d, and visitors must leave \u201conce their meal is finished\u201d. The rules also say you can only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":10260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5],"tags":[47,746,71,101,43],"class_list":["post-269597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-uk-news","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269598,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269597\/revisions\/269598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}