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Restaurants are being forced to close en masse due to the NHS app ‘pinging’ staff and telling them to self-isolate. The current Track & Trace rules mean anyone who was potentially near someone with the virus has to self-isolate ten days from when they may have been affected. It means hospitality staff are continuously being […]
We do not need to remind you that restaurants reopen outdoors on Monday. But have you booked anywhere? Finding tables now requires organisation. Reservations have flooded in. Jack Stein, from the Stein Group, said he’s taking bookings for as far along as September, and saw around 20,000 reservations in a matter of days after the […]
There is speculative talk operators be given a “halfway house” reopening over Easter. That is restrictions will still be in place, in part, and the hospitality industry will not be allowed to fully get going until May or beyond. The industry has understandably mixed feelings at the prospect of a slow and gradual reemergence. Many […]
Hospitality trade bodies have demanded the government produces a roadmap to better identify when and how the sector can reopen. UKHospitality CEO Kate Nicholls said it is imperative the Chancellor Rishi Sunak set out formal plans for businesses to “get us over the final hurde” after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed a scourge […]
An estimated 650,000 job losses have ravaged the hospitality industry in the past year, according to figures. Analysis of more than 700 restaurants, pubs, and bars by the hospitality software provider Fourth found the total number of jobs in the sector has fallen by a quarter compared to January 2020. It is believed thousands more […]
UKHospitality has called on the government to incentivise landlords to lower rents and write-off some arrears to tackle the industry’s ever-growing mountain of debt. Chief executive Kate Nicholls told the government’s Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee (BEIS) that landlords must “share the burden” to better support the sector. Currently, hospitality businesses are protected […]
Pubs and restaurants in the North of England could be forced to close again after a rise in coronavirus cases. UK ministers met yesterday to discuss harsher rules in Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, with hospitality businesses likely to be shut down from Monday. The warnings come after Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a lockdown […]
The hospitality industry has been handed a 10pm curfew in the Government’s latest bid to try to combat a rise in coronavirus cases. Instead of implementing a working and widespread track a trace app early on, instead of providing adequate PPE to NHS staff, and instead of more rigorously enforcing hand sanitising and mask-wearing rules […]
Business secretary Alok Sharma said the possible June 22 date for reopening pubs and restaurants who can serve guests outside is probably not going to happen. There had been suggestions this week that some businesses – those large enough to serve customers with social distancing firmly in place, and with gardens – might be able […]
