Major UK pub chain giving out free Christmas meals for households

Greene King pubs is raising the spirits of the nation’s hardest workers this festive season, hosting ‘The Big Christmas Shift’ across 700 pubsMajor UK pub chain giving out free Christmas meals for households

A major UK pub company is offering Christmas Day shift workers a free meal. Greene King pubs is raising the spirits of the nation’s hardest workers this festive season, hosting ‘The Big Christmas Shift’ across 700 pubs, giving away 30,000 meals on Monday, 1 December.

The nationwide event gives those who will be working on Christmas Day their own moment to relax and enjoy all the trimmings ahead of the festive rush.

The campaign will honour the 1.1 million shift workers who will pull a shift on 25 December The pub company has announced “The Big Christmas Shift” in a brand-new Christmas advert that is filmed and is set in Bury St Edmunds where the brewery has been crafting beers since 1799.

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Greene King pubs has taken Santa back to his original green outfit, which he is said to have worn throughout the 17th and 18th century, only becoming consistently red in the last 100 years.

Andrew Gallagher, Brand and Marketing Director at Greene King pubs, said: “We see first-hand the hard work that goes into making Christmas happen, including our very own team across the UK.

“While most of us are sitting down for Christmas lunch, millions of people are working hard to keep things running.

“The Big Christmas Shift is our way of saying thank you, giving those working on 25 December their own chance to celebrate, relax and enjoy a festive main meal before the Christmas rush kicks in. In the advert, Greene Santa pays tribute to shift workers of the modern day as he says, “it’s time to celebrate people who don’t just work at Christmas, but who make Christmas work.”

Blue Light Card is proudly supporting the initiative, with 10,000 of the 30,000 meals reserved exclusively for its members. These can be claimed directly via the Blue Light Card website.