In yet another blow to the hospitality industry, the Government has announced that all customers at pubs, restaurants and cafes must provide contact details (either written or via the NHS Test and Trace app) on entry. Previously, only one member of each group had to provide details. Doing so was voluntary (staff were only asked to “encourage” customers to provide their details). But the new guidelines state that those who will not provide their details must be “refuse[d] entry”. BBC News has the story.
New rules to help pubs, cafes and restaurants reopen outdoors safely in England on April 12th have sparked anger from industry groups.
All customers will have to sign in on entry, not just one member of the group like before. It is also unclear whether payment at the bar will be permitted. …
Under the new guidance, every customer aged 16 and over will have to check in to NHS Test and Trace before entering a venue, or give their contact details to staff.
Pubs and restaurants must take “reasonable steps” to stop people who won’t comply from coming in, or they could face fines.
Carl Ford, an accountant based in Tamworth, told the BBC he was frustrated and confused by the rules.
“I feel like it’s almost like going back to school where I have to sign in and out,” he said.
“I don’t understand why I have to do this in a restaurant or pub, but I don’t need to do this in a supermarket where you have a free for all. People don’t have to sign in and they can pick up fruit with their hands.” …
In a joint statement, UK Hospitality, the British Beer & Pub Association and the British Institute of Innkeeping said the rules would add “more confusion and inconvenience for customers and staff”.
When pubs and restaurants opened last summer, customers were “encouraged” to provide their contact details, but to do so was not mandatory (see official guidance below).
These guidelines have, however, since been updated: venues must now take “reasonable steps to refuse entry to those who refuse to check in or provide contact details”. Compliance is no longer a personal choice. It is mandatory.
Venues which do not force their customers to provide details will themselves face “financial penalties“.
After having been shut for almost a whole year, how are pubs and restaurants expected to survive if potential customers decide that – because of the new overbearing rules – it is easier and more enjoyable to drink with friends in their back gardens?
The BBC News report is worth reading in full.
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Hypocritical little Tw-ts , the worlds on its arse & then there’s these sponsored idiots !!
Starts with C ends with unts.
Do as I say, not as I do. why do these pathetic people get air time.
These people are the western governments “useful idiots”. They are the easily manipulated brainwashed dreamers that have taken it upon themselves to shout louder and louder about the manufactured climate crisis and Net Zero governments must find them truly very useful idiots because they are batting for the same team as the pretend to save the planet politicians and bureaucrats. It is the same with the superglue, paint and soup people who never feel the full force of the law for their vandalism and eco terrorism because governments are happy they are spreading the climate emergency message.
As Mark Steyn puts it….They are in agreement with the establishment, they just want Agenda 2030 now rather that five years.
wonder how much money they each have in bank accounts and investments, just like Greta with her 8 million. Such real unslefish concern for our planet brings a tear to my eye
Probably Trust Fund kids, working people have real worries and bills to pay. But they should be careful what they wish for. After Starmer, will anyone have anything to pass on!
Grifting non-entities.
With every “Good Cause” follow the money the “Oh So White Hats” get. I don’t know who sponsors them but I’d put a £100 on it that it is the usual bunch of vested interests.
Bizarrely they do not seem to understand that books actually cannot be produced, in any numbers, without fossil fuels; machines of any description need metal parts and oils.
I doubt they would like the idea of having to mash wood pulp into paper by hand. They definitely wouldn’t like having to do the manual copies one by one, page by page.
Also, have they considered how to deliver the books anywhere or how to bind them? Can’t use a horse and cart: metal parts and the horse produces CO2 and methane. They can walk but they would have to remove all of their factory produced clothing, beads, necklaces and shoes to do it.
In short they know nothing about energy or indeed climate. This girl looks about 14. We cannot have children with no experience of anything in life who are not even aware they are being manipulated to dictate energy policy
Got me thinking about Steptoe & Son again. Timeless British classic.
Having family musicians keeps my eye on the industry , it would suit TPTB to kill off music festivals, this is another way of implementing that aim . Looking at the big Festival line ups all the Bands had their moment years ago , I mean Coldplay ( good band ) at Glasto again !! but who else is there coming through , also rumour has it that in 2026 Glastonbury is off , why is the question??
Metallica played there in 2013 and that was somehow “controversial”….I’m not a Football fan but TPTB might have trouble stamping out that, it seems hardwired! (Hardwired to self destruct Metallica). Though the ticked prices I can never get my head around, the fans should boycott at those prices. And in old days local teams were actually ‘Local’.
The BBC this morning were having an orgasm over this new car battery technology that can charge an EV in 5-10 minutes, so as to stop ‘range anxiety’.
No need for any anxiety. Just plug the car into a solar panel when you get home and let it charge overnight.
On a serious note, there may well be a time when electric cars make the sensible choice vs ICE, but that will be determined by the market, not by committees of bureaucrats trying to force things on us. Anyone remember the last big technology call the Government got right.? Nope, me neither…