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Lack of Outdoor Space Will Prevent Large Number of Hospitality Venues Opening As Lockdown Partially Eased

by Michael Curzon
11 April 2021 11:31 AM
Pub Closed Blackboard or Chalkboard Sign Due to Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic

Pub Closed Blackboard or Chalkboard Sign Due to Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic

While the partial easing of lockdown restrictions is being welcomed by the hospitality industry, the requirement that customers must remain outdoors means a great many businesses across the country will have no choice but to remain closed until restrictions are eased further. BBC News has the story.

A “large proportion” of hospitality businesses “won’t be able to open” on Monday, despite an easing of lockdown restrictions in England, because they do not have access to sufficient outdoor space. 

In England… restaurants and pubs [will be] allowed to serve food and alcohol to customers sitting outdoors.

But Kate Nicholls, chief executive of UK Hospitality, told BBC Breakfast only two in every five venues would reopen. 

“The majority of the industry still has to cling on for five weeks,” said Ms Nicholls.

Nonetheless she said it was a “welcome restart” for those businesses that are able to comply with current coronavirus measures.

Ms Nicholls said that even those venues which can reopen will achieve nothing like their normal revenues: “They still aren’t going to break even… the best they are going to achieve outdoors is 20%.”

“Until we get to June 21st, hospitality won’t be able to be viable.”

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Rachael Robathan, the the leader of Tory-run Westminster council, has urged the Government to bring forward indoor opening of pubs from May. She is quoted in the Telegraph.

The hospitality sector continues to face real peril, with difficult choices presented as a result of what the roadmap does and does not allow. 

The costs and challenges associated with a reopening limited to outdoor space, if there is indeed any available to them, means that many businesses have informed us that they must delay their reopening until May, slowing down the recovery.

This is a particular challenge for central London venues where there is less likelihood of businesses having access to outdoor space in the first place, compared to rural areas and market towns. 

For many premises, it is simply not viable to open, although we will continue our sector-leading al fresco programme to extend this opportunity to as many businesses as we can.

Worth reading in full.

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arfurmo
arfurmo
4 years ago

Can anyone explain the point of T&T outside and how it would work if Infectious Ian sits at one table while Pickled Pete sits at a table far removed ? AFAIK T&T neither records location within the garden nor exit time whether the app or paper version.

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

I don’t know but I imagine Neil Ferguson is going to start getting a lot of phone calls

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Carrie Symonds
Carrie Symonds
4 years ago
Reply to  steve_w

Does anyone have his number?

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

“Can anyone explain the point of T&T”?

It’s easy

… exercise of power and induction of submission.

Oh, sorry … you meant scientifically?

None.

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

Infectious Iane will NOT be sitting down in any pub garden until (well, OK, unless) normality is restored!

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IanC
IanC
4 years ago
Reply to  iane

IanC too.
I’ll be at the beach… Oh maybe not.

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Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  arfurmo

You only needed to use the first seven words

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago

Who wants to go anywhere near a pub that treats them like toxic waste?

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bOrgkilLaH1of7
bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Indeed Annie, fancy a chilly-tipple?

No thanks; I’ll stick to acts of domestic terrorism with my friends indoors around the log burner.

Tis all just a brief summer sojourn of bread-n-circuses diversion for the ‘deplorables’, pre the next draconian lockdown kicks in around Aug/Sept 2021, and just like with the Israel reality… being double-vaxxd-jabbed is offering no protection at all.

It’s already modelled in:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/975909/S1182_SPI-M-O_Summary_of_modelling_of_easing_roadmap_step_2_restrictions.pdf

You’re welcome!

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bOrgkilLaH1of7
bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

The graph of woe from Israel

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RickH
RickH
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

Ah … but the Israeli state has always had a tendency to totalitarian domination and all its accoutrements (ask any Palestinian, or those that deem ‘the wrong kind of’ or ‘self-hating’ jew). In these terms, the vaccinations have been a roaring success.

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bOrgkilLaH1of7
bOrgkilLaH1of7
4 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Exactly, and what are the odds of the very same tactic not being repeated here in dear ole freedom loving Blighty… eh RickH?

The IoT will include all items organic and cellular, by order of the non-elected management…

It’s a done deal.

It’s for the greater good

/sarc

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

Yes indeed : for the greater good – of the ruling classes and the super-rich!

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TheTartanEagle
TheTartanEagle
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

The Registers of Scotland conveniently publish the weekly deaths from all causes and from/with covid, by health board and county. In Orkney, for example, the typical weekly number of deaths is around 3, rising to 5 on occasions in winter, and dropping to 0 or 1 in summer.

In 2021, the total number of deaths over the first 12 weeks of the year is nigh on twice that in the first 12 weeks in 2020. Something has doubled the death rate, but there is no covid – allegedly only 4 covid deaths in total since spring 2020. In April 2020 there were a few weeks with around 8 deaths and a week with 11 deaths, so a bad bug clearly went round but was not labelled as covid. The death rate over the first quarter of 2021 is extraordinary, and coincides with the vaccine rollout, but no-one has either noticed nor seems bothered.

Another interesting data set on the Registers is weekly deaths in Scotland since 1974. A quick plot in Exel shows that last year was nothing extraordinary at all.

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yohodi
yohodi
4 years ago
Reply to  bOrgkilLaH1of7

Hat tip to Galene77..But from day one this has been an open secret much of the evidence, and data against government policy can be found on ‘guv dot uk’ ..
Key headings in the SPIMO report include-(my caps)
Key ASSUMPTIONS.
Current pandemic ESTIMATES.
Medium term PREDICTIONS and SCENARIOS.
ESTIMATED impact.
Modelling on the whole Roadmap.
Following this predictive BS shows a complete abdication of moral and ethical responsiblity from the utter shower of poo currently known as HMG… (seething beyond rage)

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steve_w
steve_w
4 years ago

We have the news that the Pfizer vaccine does not work with the South African variant

All we need now is to find the Pfizer vaccine makes you more susceptible to death from the South African variant and we can lock down again.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago

This is just lip service – all part of the torture. They bloody know this isn’t going to work but they don’t care – they’re enjoying dangling that carrot! Anyone with a half a functioning braincell on active duty, know this and will not accept it. They don’t want to sit outside, freezing with a cold drink.They don’t want to be treated like a biohazard. They don’t want to wear face knickers. They don’t want to be trapped and traced, or apped, just to enter an OUTDOOR space, and they don’t want to pay through the nose for the privilege. It would be interesting to see how many, STILL unaware they’re all being played, will go along with all of this, because Daddy Government is now “allowing” them!

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Sceptical Steve
Sceptical Steve
4 years ago

On a practical note, if a pub or restaurant decides it’s not viable to reopen with restricted outdoor service, does anyone know whether the Furlough money and other support will still be paid, or will the businesses be considered to have shut themselves?

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paul smith
paul smith
4 years ago
Reply to  Sceptical Steve

The latter, I think. Permanently.

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karenovirus
karenovirus
4 years ago
Reply to  Sceptical Steve

Good point, 6 months ago Jeremy Vine ran an item on London black cabs. Outside London were 6 fields each containing 200-600 redundant black taxis returned to finance companies because takings had been reduced by 80%.
The drivers were still responsible for finance repayments (some cars being all electric £70k as encouraged by Mayor Khan) but were getting no government support since they were ‘key workers’ so not obliged to stop working.

This week Journeyman Pictures YouTube are on the case.

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TreeHugger
TreeHugger
4 years ago
Reply to  karenovirus

I think it because they were self employed, not key workers. Help for self employed has been very sketchy.

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TreeHugger
TreeHugger
4 years ago
Reply to  Sceptical Steve

Furlough is available until Sept for any business to use for all or some of their staff until normal service is resumed……or until the gov decide otherwise.

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paul smith
paul smith
4 years ago

‘Hospitality‘
Itself, yet another word to be stricken from humanity’s common vocabulary.
Nothing remotely hospitable to be seen on any horizon.

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Old Trout
Old Trout
4 years ago
Reply to  paul smith

Great post. With all the restrictions, rules and complete disregard for any of our civil liberties which pub and restraurant goers will be subjected to, it should be renamed in-hospitality!

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Silke David
Silke David
4 years ago
Reply to  paul smith

Exactly why I left my job last August, I was not able to provide hospitality! I always wondered how we still had customers! But they did not seem to care to be treated as lepers and even having to pay for it!

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Smelly Melly
Smelly Melly
4 years ago

Want to calculate your risk of dying from the C19? Oxford university have created a website where you can calculate your risk https://qcovid.org

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Attaboy
Attaboy
4 years ago

this is gonna have to get resolved on the streets… not on the internet

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epythymy
epythymy
4 years ago

Maybe now would be a good time to plan a great reopening

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IanC
IanC
4 years ago

No Sh1t Sherlock!

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TreeHugger
TreeHugger
4 years ago
Reply to  IanC

Even those with outdoor space are reluctant. I spoke to a pub owner last week and asked if he was opening today. His response was ‘bollocks am I’ it’s April in England why would they. And right on que it’s snowing here this morning.

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Ethelred the Unready
Ethelred the Unready
4 years ago

My lockdown song of the day ‘Right to Decide’, Hawkwind…

You can’t do this, you can’t do that
You can’t go forward and you can’t go back
You can’t do this, you can’t do that
You can’t go forward and you can’t go back

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