Pub sector stumbles down the road to recovery
As the UK hospitality industry struggles to get back on its feet in the fallout from Covid-19, pubs and brewers at risk of financial ruin are urging the government to give a clear date for when pubs can reopen.
You might also be interested in
Replies (6)
Please login or register to join the discussion.
This simply requires control, structure and a willingness to make things happen. I noticed that the Irish Government have just published the following guidelines to the sector.
Tourism agency Fáilte Ireland has finalised and published guidelines around the reopening of pubs serving food, that will see customers restricted to spending a maximum of one hour and 45 minutes in a premises at any one time.
An additional 15 minutes will have to be put aside by the business for cleaning between bookings, the guidelines say, and to allow customers leave without mixing with the next group coming in.
Pubs, gastro pubs and bars will also have to collect contact information for the lead person in a party, in order to facilitate contact tracing in the event of a positive case of Covid-19 later being identified.
Where two-metre physical distancing is not possible, the guidelines say businesses are now allowed to implement a one-metre rule in controlled environments, once other risk mitigation requirements have been met.
"These guidelines are intended to provide clarity to businesses so that they can reopen safely on June 29th," Paul Kelly, CEO of Fáilte Ireland, said.
"I would like to thank my team and officials from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport who have been working tirelessly on ensuring these guidelines are practical while adhering to public health advice."
For the full article: https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2020/0617/1147884-failte-ireland-hpsc/
Lets be honest, the Lockdown and social distancing rules are just a joke. The government imposed these rules upon us whilst the following officials broke them, at will, because they know it is all lies:
1. Mr. Dominic Cummings
2. Professor Neil Ferguson
3. Dr. Catherine Calderwood
4. Mr. Robert Jenrick
5. Mr. Stephen Kinnock
In addition to this, we have had a hundred thousand protestors demonstrating all over London and other parts of the country over BLM - even they know that Lockdown and Social Distancing rules are based on fake research.
BoJo knows that the World Health Organization recommendation is only 1 meter but is refusing to reduce our ridiculous 2 meter rules knowing fully well that it will shut down hundreds of thousands of small businesses and pubs. We are all being prepared for the amazing "vaccine" which will be rushed through in a few months (usually it takes years of testing on animals and then humans before it is declared safe for injection into a normally healthy human being). The government has succeeded in making the majority of us (those with weak minds) to feel like we are completely diseased and don't deserve to mix with other human beings anymore unless and until we are vaccinated. Yet we have survived to a population of 8 billion on this planet for thousands of years without social distancing and masks.
Wake up people - this was all done to prep us for the new stage of "normal" that our governments have planned for us. Let all the small businesses shut down so that the government only has to control the larger ones. Its easier for them that way.
Actually Nefetitit is only partially right - the whole Covid virus thing is merely a contrived situation between the banks, governments and the electronics industry. Why? Well to get rid of cash of course.
The banks get more commission (Stand Chart and HSBC backing the Chinese over Hong Kong).
The governments see the absence of cash as a tax benefit as data mining would enable them to check the missing incomes.
The electronics industry provides all the cash free gizmos.
Obvious really isn't it?
It's OK I'm only joking - or am I?
My wife and I must reduce our outgoings because two substantial sources of income have temporarily ceased and one is unlikely to recover. Sadly our weekly (sometimes twice weekly) visits to pub restaurants will now be limited to special occasions only, and in any case if Irish-style practices are introduced so that we cannot just drop in and stay as long as we like we will not enjoy our visits. If staff have to wear masks and the whole event has a clinical atmosphere we will not go at all.
I shall really miss the pubs when they have gone. They are part of the fabric of British life.
I feel very sad these days.
There are more than a dozen pubs on the high street alone in the town I live. Many were/are grubby sh*t holes not viable before coronavirus and suffered from a never ending revolving door of (hopeless) landlords. Good job if one third never open again.
(as long as the one I go to isn't one of them of course.....)
Fine where there are choices but the vulnerable will possibly be the villages which currently only have one surviving hostelry, those that also needed tourists as well as locals may now start to tumble, the former hotels converted into houses/flats.
Where I lived as a child was the village of West Linton, south of Edinburgh. In the 1960s there were three hotels but over the years The Linton and the Rae Martin have shut and all that is left is The Gordon Arms, this is despite decent size housing development significantly expanding the size of the village.
The Gordon Arms sits on the main Biggar Road, I suspect it is that prominent position that has enabled it to survive, if tourist/weekend outing traffic further reduces what then, a village with a population of circa 2,300 and no public house/hotel, it is in these sorts of communities where the danger lies.