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New restrictions including the Government’s controversial 10pm curfew don’t appear to have dampened drinkers’ enthusiasm for visiting pubs, according to new research.
Operators including Oakman Inns, Revolution Bars Group, Arc Inspirations and The Lost & Found will all continue to fund of similar discounts to those available under the Government’s Eat Out to Help Out (EOTHO) scheme throughout October.
Only customer-facing staff are required to wear a face covering, The Morning Advertiser (The MA) understands.
After almost a week of 10pm closure, The Morning Advertiser (MA) quizzed its readers on what steps they’d been taking to enforce the Government’s curfew.
Some 100 hospitality business leaders including pubco bosses have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to support the sector financially.
The Government’s replacement Job Support Scheme (JSS), which will take over from the furlough scheme from November, has been criticised by a Leeds-based multiple operator.
The Prime Minister has been pressed to issue sector-specific support for pubs, in a letter signed by more than 100 hospitality businesses.
The City Pub Group's chairman has lauded the operator’s ‘encouraging’ post-lockdown performance after revenues bounced back from a 55% hit taken during 15 weeks of enforced closure.
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Heineken's pub arm pledged more than £600,000 to reopening a Dundee pub which has been closed for the last four years while Oxfordshire-based Hook Norton Brewery has put wheels in motion at a 17th century coaching inn.
Mosaic Pub and Dining Group has raised an extra £2.5m from a recent share offering in a bid to bolster its balance sheet amid the ongoing pandemic.