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NewsWarehouse Project founder Sacha Lord: We won’t reopen until we can do it properly
Nightclub and live gig venues may be some of the last to reopen, but Greater Manchester’s night-time economy advisor Sacha Lord won’t be shifting his models to speed up the process.
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NewsWestminster Council sets out hospitality recovery proposal
In order for hospitality businesses in Westminster to continue trading whilst distancing is in place, the local council will be implementing a number of measures to create space for pavement dining, it has said.
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NewsEi Publican Partnership announces £280,000 PPE package
Ei Publican Partnerships, Ei Group’s leased and tenanted business, has said it will distribute up to one million items of PPE throughout its pub estate ahead of reopening.
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NewsDomino’s lfls up 6.1% in half year to date
Domino’s UK like for like sales were up 6.1% for the first half of the year to date.
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NewsPret trials click and collect
Pret has launched a click and collect trial in five of its London stores.
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NewsMcDonald’s sees signs of recovery in global sales
McDonald’s global sales began to gradually improve in May as it reached the 90% reopened store mark.
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NewsSeafood Pub Co files for administration
The Seafood Pub Company, the multi-awarding group, has ceased trading after going into administration.
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NewsRent code of practice a “waste of time” and “waffle”
The code of practice for commercial landlords and tenants introduced by the government earlier this month “changes nothing”, JKS CEO Jyotin Sethi has told MCA. Speaking at MCA’s virtual event The Conversation, Sethi said the code just “encourages productive dialogue between landlords and tenants, which is what we were doing in any case. I think there’s lots more that’s needed, an extension of the lease enforcement moratorium for example, to give more time for those broken relationships and for negotiations to develop. So, for me it was it was a little bit of a waste of time.
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NewsJKS CEO Jyotin Sethi: Change of narrative needed to persuade people to go out
A change of narrative on the risks of coronavirus will be needed to persuade middle-ground consumers to visits restaurants and bars, JKS Restaurants CEO Jyotin Sethi has told MCA’s The Conversation.
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NewsDeliveroo and restaurant CEOs warn of grave damage ahead
Deliveroo has teamed up with a host of restaurant CEOs including Itsu Founder and CEO Julian Metcalfe, Pret CEO Pano Christou, Wagamama CEO Emma Woods, and Neil Manhas, GM of Pizza Hut, to urge the government to provide an increased level of support for the industry. It has sent a letter to the PM, signed by 90 CEOs representing over 1,000 restaurants, to call for action over issues including cutting VAT on restaurant food and extending the JRS for restaurants while social distancing measures remain in place.
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NewsGreggs to reopen 800 stores
Greggs plans to reopen 800 shops for takeaway only on 18 June. All stores will have the by now familiar safety measures, like floor markings to maintain social distancing, protective screens, PPE for staff, a reduced menu, additional cleaning and cash will not be accepted. The business said it had been making a “variety of proposals in return for rent reductions” to landlords and that “all landlords have been informed of our plan to move to monthly rent payments from June. We made our full quarterly rent payment in March as usual.”
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NewsSafety guidelines for hospitality could be “weeks” away
With just three weeks ago before the mooted 4 July deadline for reopening, Dominic Raab has warned hospitality it could take “weeks” for safety guidelines to be produced after the government ordered another review of existing social distancing measures. At the government’s daily briefing, Mark Andrews, from the Shropshire Star, asked about reducing the two metre rule down to one metre for the hospitality industry, what targets would need to be met and how close the government was to meeting them.
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NewsGovernment needs to confirm reopening date, says UK Hospitality
UK Hospitality has said the government needs to confirm a reopening date for hospitality so businesses can prepare for it properly. CEO Kate Nicholls has written to Secretaries of State at BEIS and DCMS, to emphasise the urgent need for clarity. “We need confirmation of the reopening date for hospitality businesses without any further delay,” she said. “Businesses need time to prepare and the first step in giving them some much-needed clarity is confirmation of when they can open their doors again.
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NewsIndustry staff ‘locked out’ of government support
The hospitality sector has been named in a Treasury select committee report which finds more than 1m people have been locked out of government coronavirus support schemes.
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NewsCreams intros QR codes for menus, order and pay
Dessert parlour brand Creams is introducing QR codes at its cafés as part of safeguarding and social distancing measures for dine-in customers.
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NewsAdmiral Taverns to offer tenant support to April 2021
Admiral Taverns’ tenants are being offered tapered rent support from reopening all the way through to April next year, the company has announced.
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NewsRichard Caring: Hospitality faces wave of redundancies once furlough ends
Richard Caring has warned that Boris Johnson’s “weakness and indecision” on reopening restaurants, pubs and cafes will cost more than two million workers their jobs.
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NewsHospitality Leaders Poll: Majority of operators will need large financial support to reopen
Sixty five percent of operators will need a huge chunk of their rent reduced or covered by the government in order to reopen before the end of the year, according to the latest weekly Hospitality Leaders Poll by MCA Insight/HIM. Asked ‘What would be the minimum amount of rent reduction/support you could operate with over the next six months?’, 35% said they would need between 41-60% to be covered or reduced. Another 18% said they would need between 61-80% and 15% said they would need between 81-100%.
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NewsRobinsons to taper rent discounts from July
Robinsons Brewery, which owns more than 260 pubs across north Wales and England, will begin tapering its rent discounts from July.
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Punch offers tenants 75% rent credit for July
Punch Pubs is offering tied pub tenants three quarters (75%) rent credit for July, reduced each month beyond autumn.