*Boris Johnson* – “Some of you may go under, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”
Maybe it’s time for Eat Out to Help Out 2: Christmas Boogaloo.
Was just speaking with a colleague. We’ve taken a bit of a hit but on Xmas day but in the lead up we’ve gotten sightly busier. Imagine it’s people getting out before the shit hits the fan.
But with the rumours of social distancing, it’s looking pretty bad for us. Our capacity will go down, which will mean less customers and in turn mean less staff on shift like last year.
But wasn’t so bad as we were on furlough. But the prospect of doing this without the furlough scheme will be devastating for just about everyone I work with.
They’re avoiding mandating anything because that has to come with support programmes – but all the pre-Christmas events are being cancelled anyway.
A lot of that is people not wanting to be in iso for Christmas, though, so I wonder how many of them are actually being postponed to January or February, and that won’t be such a dead loss-making period as it usually is.
I get businesses being supported financially by the government when there are actual restrictions in place forcing them to close but what financial support can really be given to places that are not getting business because people are just not going? It’s the nature of the beast when it come to capitalism right?
I’ve been out to eat a couple of times in the past few weeks and to be honest everywhere I’ve been the service and the food has been really crap.
I don’t know if I’ve just been unlucky but I’m not risking covid for a crappy meal.
A lockdown would be fine, no lockdown would be fine, instead we have vague and mixed confusing messages and a pseudo lockdown, that’s the problem.
There have been studies since early last year that show rising cases harm the economy before restrictions even come into play. People make decisions based on their perception of risk and there is even a whole new field of economics focussed on modelling the pandemic and macroeconomy together. And yet, the government is still surprised every time.
The decision has never been save lives or save the economy, it’s always both.
Will they get more or less help than the self employed ?
Actually making masks actually mandatory would help so much and hurt so little. At least in urban areas.
Labour had a great opportunity to demand the latest restrictions came with support for workers and business and they didn’t – bit of a shame. They must have known the tories would pull this stealth lockdown by advice not rules crap to avoid supporting taxpaying businesses and citizens.
Well we indebted the taxpayer for a few generations after the last lockdown, what’s a few more to keep some boomers alive a bit longer? It’s not like they will be around to deal with the consequences.
Yup. Venue I work at has a daily capacity for games of roughly 2000 people. Every Saturday it’s completely filled to the brim, holidays even more so even though we have shorter opening hours. Checked today, altogether throughout the upcoming week we have 600 bookings. It’s not good, not good at all.
I work in one and I have no idea if I’ll get furlough or go back to relying on Universal Credit. I’m just waiting for the claim to close as i’m on zero hour contract. I doubt the government will do much to help. They hated doing furlough and will only help their mates.
Just been out for a Xmas meal with in laws. It was fairly quiet at 2pm, but soon picked up. So I guess it depends on certain places?
The sensible thing to do is to cancel parties if you want to avoid risking Christmas in isolation, although it is hardly the fun thing to do and one or two fewer things to look forward to at this of year. Restaurants and pubs going under would be awful, it’s not like replacements would spring up over night to replace those we lose. High streets and town centres will end up being more dead than they are now, losing them might be the final death knell for many.
Restaurant near me has closed until after Christmas as they don’t have enough staff because of Covid.
Does not feel like it. I couldn’t get a table reserved for 8 people for Saturday night. Phone a handful of places.
Yep, my works Christmas party was cancelled and I’m bummed about it. There was £300 behind the bar!
If you go out this week, especially in london, your chances of missing and being ill over christmas are quite high, to be honest unless a bar or restaurant has a proper hvac system that actually draws air up rather than sideways or down then i personally have no desire to visit until the case numbers are wayyy lower.
As someone who works in several venues across the city this is very upsetting. The media once again convinced people that a mild strain makes it too dangerous to go out. Thank you everyone who has ignored them and still continues to support venues.
Given the obesity crisis this isn’t a bad thing. Let them go bust. Most of them are crap anyway. Awful, inconsistent food and terrible service.
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*Boris Johnson* – “Some of you may go under, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make”
Maybe it’s time for Eat Out to Help Out 2: Christmas Boogaloo.
Was just speaking with a colleague. We’ve taken a bit of a hit but on Xmas day but in the lead up we’ve gotten sightly busier. Imagine it’s people getting out before the shit hits the fan.
But with the rumours of social distancing, it’s looking pretty bad for us. Our capacity will go down, which will mean less customers and in turn mean less staff on shift like last year.
But wasn’t so bad as we were on furlough. But the prospect of doing this without the furlough scheme will be devastating for just about everyone I work with.
They’re avoiding mandating anything because that has to come with support programmes – but all the pre-Christmas events are being cancelled anyway.
A lot of that is people not wanting to be in iso for Christmas, though, so I wonder how many of them are actually being postponed to January or February, and that won’t be such a dead loss-making period as it usually is.
I get businesses being supported financially by the government when there are actual restrictions in place forcing them to close but what financial support can really be given to places that are not getting business because people are just not going? It’s the nature of the beast when it come to capitalism right?
I’ve been out to eat a couple of times in the past few weeks and to be honest everywhere I’ve been the service and the food has been really crap.
I don’t know if I’ve just been unlucky but I’m not risking covid for a crappy meal.
A lockdown would be fine, no lockdown would be fine, instead we have vague and mixed confusing messages and a pseudo lockdown, that’s the problem.
There have been studies since early last year that show rising cases harm the economy before restrictions even come into play. People make decisions based on their perception of risk and there is even a whole new field of economics focussed on modelling the pandemic and macroeconomy together. And yet, the government is still surprised every time.
The decision has never been save lives or save the economy, it’s always both.
Will they get more or less help than the self employed ?
Actually making masks actually mandatory would help so much and hurt so little. At least in urban areas.
Labour had a great opportunity to demand the latest restrictions came with support for workers and business and they didn’t – bit of a shame. They must have known the tories would pull this stealth lockdown by advice not rules crap to avoid supporting taxpaying businesses and citizens.
Well we indebted the taxpayer for a few generations after the last lockdown, what’s a few more to keep some boomers alive a bit longer? It’s not like they will be around to deal with the consequences.
Yup. Venue I work at has a daily capacity for games of roughly 2000 people. Every Saturday it’s completely filled to the brim, holidays even more so even though we have shorter opening hours. Checked today, altogether throughout the upcoming week we have 600 bookings. It’s not good, not good at all.
I work in one and I have no idea if I’ll get furlough or go back to relying on Universal Credit. I’m just waiting for the claim to close as i’m on zero hour contract. I doubt the government will do much to help. They hated doing furlough and will only help their mates.
Just been out for a Xmas meal with in laws. It was fairly quiet at 2pm, but soon picked up. So I guess it depends on certain places?
The sensible thing to do is to cancel parties if you want to avoid risking Christmas in isolation, although it is hardly the fun thing to do and one or two fewer things to look forward to at this of year. Restaurants and pubs going under would be awful, it’s not like replacements would spring up over night to replace those we lose. High streets and town centres will end up being more dead than they are now, losing them might be the final death knell for many.
Restaurant near me has closed until after Christmas as they don’t have enough staff because of Covid.
Does not feel like it. I couldn’t get a table reserved for 8 people for Saturday night. Phone a handful of places.
Yep, my works Christmas party was cancelled and I’m bummed about it. There was £300 behind the bar!
If you go out this week, especially in london, your chances of missing and being ill over christmas are quite high, to be honest unless a bar or restaurant has a proper hvac system that actually draws air up rather than sideways or down then i personally have no desire to visit until the case numbers are wayyy lower.
As someone who works in several venues across the city this is very upsetting. The media once again convinced people that a mild strain makes it too dangerous to go out. Thank you everyone who has ignored them and still continues to support venues.
Given the obesity crisis this isn’t a bad thing. Let them go bust. Most of them are crap anyway. Awful, inconsistent food and terrible service.