I don't think it will be all of a sudden - these things do take time. The experience of pubs in Scotland, Ireland and Wales is that the alcohol takings are about the same, or slightly less, but pub takings by way of food and snacks are up. That suits me fine. The breweries and distileries have made mega profits for years while landlords and managers tend to fall behind. The good landlord will now realise that food has a much better profit margin anyway and some of the money will be shifted from the big boys to the little fish and, hopefuly, keep the money in the community pub. Seems to be happening elsewhere anyway. I hope England follows suit!

Cheers

Dave