All articles by Finn Scott-Delany – Page 44
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NewsSunak unveils VAT cut and discount scheme
Consumers will be able to get a 50% reduction for sit-down meals in cafes, restaurants and pubs across the UK from Monday to Wednesday every week throughout August 2020, part of government plans to support the industry.
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NewsWhitbread opens 24 restaurants
Whitbread has reopened 24 restaurants and 270 UK hotels, with the the majority of the rest of the estate due to reopen throughout July.
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Analysis & InsightCGA: 45% of English pubs and bars reopened on Saturday
Around 45% of England’s pubs and bars opened on Saturday, CGA reports.
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NewsPubs nudge up prices
J.D. Wetherspoons increased drinks prices by around 10 pence as it reopened the majority of its pubs over the weekend.
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NewsTasty slashes third of workforce
Wildwood operator Tasty is making 284 staff redundant, around 32% of its workforce.
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NewsPrezzo details phased reopening
Prezzo has confirmed details of its phased reopening plan, with eight restaurants to open tomorrow, with a further 27 following throughout July.
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InterviewsM&B CEO Phil Urban: ‘People want to go out and be social again’
As social media storms go, it was up there with the silliest.
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NewsRed Oak Taverns secures £2.6m from CBILS
Red Oak Taverns has secured a £2.6m loan from Oak North via the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).
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NewsLeon makes sector-first environmental commitments
Leon has become the first eating out business to sign up to all 14 commitments put forward by the Council for Sustainable Business’ (CSB) to protect and improve the environment.
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NewsOnly those in ‘prolonged contact’ with infected at risk of self-isolate order
Customers, visitors and staff who are identified as having been in the same premises at the same time as someone with coronavirus will only be told to self-isolate in the case of prolonged and close contact, MCA’s The Conversation has heard.
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News1m staff due back to work in July
Almost one million hospitality staff are expected to be back in work before the end of July, according to a new survey by UKHospitality.
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Analysis & InsightEating out divide deepens, at the expense of squeezed middle
The polarisation in the hospitality sector between quicker, convenience-led solutions and longer, richer, experiential occasions will deepen post-coronavirus, insight from MCA reveals.
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InterviewsMarston’s CEO Ralph Findlay: ‘We’ll pull out all the stops’
Marston’s CEO Ralph Findlay would have preferred more notice to get his pub estate open, having leant his voice to industry calls for three weeks. In the event it was more like 10 days.
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NewsGreene King to open two-thirds of managed estate on 6 July
Greene King is to re-open 1,294 of its managed pubs from Monday 6 July, with the remaining third of the managed estate following in a second phase, the date to be confirmed.
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NewsAmazon investment in Deliveroo 'should not have a negative impact on customers'
Amazon’s investment in Deliveroo should be provisionally cleared, because it is not expected to damage competition in either restaurant delivery or online convenience grocery delivery, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has found.
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NewsOperating guidance: ‘This is exactly what was needed’
As 4 July got closer and closer, there was a sense of mounting nervousness over how the licensed trade was expected to successfully bounce back, if it did not yet know the rules it was supposed to play by.
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NewsStonegate to launch high-yield bond to finance Ei takeover
Stonegate is set to raise money via a high-yield debt issue in the coming weeks to help to finance the purchase of Ei, Reuters reports.
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Analysis & Insight‘The model is broken’: solving the leasing question
Throughout lockdown, it has been easy to cast commercial landlords as the big bad wolf.
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Analysis & InsightExtra 145m pints under 1m+
An additional 145 million pints of beer can be sold out of home now that social distancing has been relaxed, according to CGA.
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NewsPizza Express announces opening plan
Pizza Express is reopening of 46 of its restaurants for dine-in customers from Thursday, 9 July.