PM’s announcement of the reopening of #restaurants and #pubs
on the 4th of July was welcome by most of the restaurant owners. Sadly,
the City of London is still a ghost city and restaurant owners are not as optimistic
as they wanted to be. Following are the reasons:
1. The theatres are not open;
2. The cinemas are open with social distancing;
3. Most of the office workers are working from home;
4. Tourists are not coming as there is a compulsory
isolation rule for tourists.
So not many people are coming to the city
On top of that
5. Restaurant owners will get no rent deduction from landlords or rent grant from the government
6. VAT and Business rates could be delayed but still a burden to the owners
7. Staff will come to work, and the furlough scheme is ending slowly and soon.
8. Those who have taken bounce back loan is also a burden to them (Maybe not now but surely in a year time)
9. London Mayor Sadik Khan has introduced a congestion charge of £15 from 7 am to 10 pm 7 days a week
10. #Coronavirus (#Covid-19) Pandemic is not over yet as Leicester city has gone to lockdown again;
11. Some scientists suggested that we relaxed the lockdown earlier. The US could have 100,000 cases per day from 40,000 per day due to the early relaxation of lockdown.
12. Restaurants and pubs must prepare for Covid-19 secure; and
13. Last but not least, we are going through #Brexit
On this basis, some high profile restaurant owners have written an open letter signed by St. John owners Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver, as well as Angela Hartnett, chef-owner of the Michelin-starred Mayfair Italian restaurant Murano, Geoff Leong of Chinatown institution Leong’s Legend, the Galvin brothers, and critic Tom Parker Bowles, says that “July 4th is no silver bullet for London Town, hidden by scenes of mobbed urban parks and commons and the crazy seaside on our screens. The center of London remains a ghost town,"
They have called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan “to sort out their differences” and to come together to provide businesses with “specific support and action now.”
You can find more information on the following links:
Central London Restaurants Call on Mayor and Prime Minister to Stop ‘Dithering’
Congestion Charge changes ‘serious blow’ to restaurants
Marston’s boss’s first order is a cut in VAT
Byron Burger lines up administrators as it seeks buyer
Restaurants are facing multiple issues in reopening on July
the 4th. What are they?
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