Calls to ban pint glasses in pubs are “daft” and would do little to reduce alcohol consumption, the chairman of JD Wetherspoon has said.
Sir Tim Martin said academic research suggesting pubs should switch from pint glasses to smaller two thirds servings could also encourage drinkers to buy more beer from supermarkets instead, damaging the pub trade.
He said: “Common sense indicates that reducing glass sizes is unlikely, due to human nature, to reduce alcohol consumption in pubs, and would also have no effect whatsoever on drinks bought in supermarkets, unless container sizes in supermarkets were also, unrealistically, reduced.
“For example, our Aussie cousins, notorious guzzlers, already use schooners without any noticeable reduction in consumption.”