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This session was hosted by MCA Deputy Editor Finn Scott-Delany, who was pleased to welcome back Kate Nicholls UKH CEO and Hugh Osmond, Director of Various Eateries. Hugh Osmond was the original founder of Punch Taverns and took Pizza Express public in 1993. The entrepreneur acquired Strada in 2014 via his Sun Capital Partners vehicle, and founded upmarket all-day brand Coppa Club. Hugh has forthright views on the lockdown measures, using a recent Daily Mail opinion piece to warn government, after it announced a second national lockdown, that Christmas is already over in the hospitality sector, and that many hospitality venues will never reopen.