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NewsRishi Sunak: Employers will contribute 10% to the JRS from September and 20% in October
Rishi Sunak will ask all businesses to contribute to the JRS from 1 August by covering NI and pension contributions, rising to 10% of wages in September and 20% of wages in October. The JRS will then be closed down at the end of October. He also announced some flexibility to the scheme so employees could start to return part-time from July. He made no specific provision for the hospitality industry, which largely remains closed before it is allowed to reopen on 4 July.
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Government to publish code of conduct on rent
The Government is working with businesses and trade bodies to produce a code of conduct on commercial rent payments.
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CDG in sales talks having received “strong expressions of interest”
Casual Dining Group is in preliminary sales talks with multiple parties having “received strong expressions of interest.”
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Majority of operators have no plans for temperature checks for customers - MCA Poll
Just one in five operators are planning to introduce temperature checks when customers arrive at their pub or restaurant, according to the latest weekly Hospitality Leaders Poll by MCA Insight/HIM. And the vast majority – 65% – have no plans to introduce temperature checks alongside other safety measures, with ...
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Sector sees next wave of reopenings
McDonald’s, Greggs and Pret have all announced substantial reopenings this week as they continue to pursue a phased recovery of their large-scale estates. In casual dining, Nando’s, Pizza Express, Tonkotso and Thaikun have opened further sites.
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Camden Market to reopen with 80% F+B traders
Camden Market is set to reopen next week with 80% of its F+B traders.
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Papa John’s sees ‘best sales period in company’s history’
Papa John’s has seen “the best sales period in the company’s history” due to the unprecedented demand caused by the coronavirus crisis.
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Living Ventures co-founder Jeremy Roberts: ‘Lockdown shouldn’t have happened this way, but we have to see it through’
“Lockdown shouldn’t have happened this way in the first place, but now that we’re here, we’ve got to see it through in some kind of order,” was the message from Jeremy Roberts to attendees at MCA’s The Conversation.
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Pizza Express opens select sites for delivery
Pizza Express has opened 13 sites across London for delivery only.
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Young’s cancels dividend, enters coronavirus financing arrangements
Young’s has cancelled its interim dividend for the financial year ending 29 March 2021 as it enters into its various coronavirus financing arrangements.
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Pret to reopen further 204 stores next week
Pret is to reopen a further 204 stores for takeaway and delivery next week.
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Excluding tronc from the JRS could hit wages by 40%
Hospitality staff on furlough could see their wages hit by up to 40% as the JRS doesn’t factor in tronc, according to a new survey. It found that on average, tronc makes up 25% of the basic pay for hospitality workers. With the JRS paying out a maximum of ...
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Editorial - The PM has offered a glimpse of positivity
If you watched a collection of MPs question the PM on his handling of the coronavirus crisis yesterday, you may have heard a snippet relating to hospitality that will have cheered you up. “We are really trying to go as fast as we can,” said Boris Johnson. “It’s very difficult to bring [back] hospitality with social distancing but I’m much more optimistic than I was, and we may be able to do things faster than I thought.”
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AlixPartners: Thoughts turn to a new world order
“With social-distancing measures still in place, reopening the hospitality sector without a plan would be catastrophic,” was the recent stark warning from Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UKHospitality. It is a sentiment echoed by many operators across the sector over the past few weeks, and a reminder of the few days before the lockdown when like-for-like sales declined by 50% or more.
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Luke Johnson: “Paid idleness is good for no one”
The government’s furlough scheme is “encouraging idleness,” and should have been cut off sooner, Luke Johnson told attendees at MCA’s The Conversation.
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Two-metre distancing needs ‘flexible interpretation’
If the Government refuses to re-evaluate its two-metre physical distancing guideline, it will be up to the industry to interpret the rule “as flexibly as we can,” Jeremy Roberts, Living Ventures co-founder has said.
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Trade bodies call for extended flexible furlough
Hospitality trade bodies have called on the Government to extend the Jobs Retention Scheme to October and increase its flexibility for the sector.
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Johnson “more optimistic” about reopening of hospitality
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that he is “more optimistic” than he once was about getting hospitality up and running again.
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Greggs to reopen 800 stores next month
Greggs is set to reopen 800 stores across the UK next month.
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McDonald’s to reopen all drive-thru restaurants next week
McDonald’s has announced it will open all its drive-thru stores next week.
