Wetherspoons Sinks to Heaviest Loss on Record From COVID-19 Lockdowns

Bar staff in PPE pour drinks at the reopening of The Toll Gate, a Wetherspoons pub in Hornsey, north London, as coronavirus lockdown restrictions are eased across England, on July 4, 2020. Aaron Chown/PA

Pub chain Wetherspoons recorded its biggest loss on record as the business suffered heavily from the COVID-19 restrictions to hit the sector.

The company has only seen losses in three of its 37 years—in 1984, 2020, and 2021.