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Hospitality prices seem to be going up so I assume so! Good old Brexit making everyone poorerAre wages rising to meet the demand?
Hospitality prices seem to be going up so I assume so! Good old Brexit making everyone poorerAre wages rising to meet the demand?
Where? Which ones?Hospitality prices seem to be going up so I assume so! Good old Brexit making everyone poorer
My local for a kick offWhere? Which ones?
Is it a chain or freehold or brewery owned?My local for a kick off
Randy - why doesn't your place rename itself 'The Downing Street Garden'? Presumably, you'll be able to do anything you like thenIs it a chain or freehold or brewery owned?
Haha. If only we had am actual garden.Randy - why doesn't your place rename itself 'The Downing Street Garden'? Presumably, you'll be able to do anything you like then
Saltburn was absolutely heaving today. Queues outside fish and chip shops and ice cream stalls. Of course the weather helped but nevertheless it will have been a good day for the traders.First proper Mother's Day for two years today for hospitality businesses in the UK. If everybody else has been as busy as we've been today (400 covers) then it's a great boost to kick off the rest of the year leading into the Easter holidays and then into Summer.
Great news.Saltburn was absolutely heaving today. Queues outside fish and chip shops and ice cream stalls. Of course the weather helped but nevertheless it will have been a good day for the traders.
Sadly I can't see it lasting. Once the big bills kick in many people will have hard choices to make and hospitality spend will be a casualty.First proper Mother's Day for two years today for hospitality businesses in the UK. If everybody else has been as busy as we've been today (400 covers) then it's a great boost to kick off the rest of the year leading into the Easter holidays and then into Summer.
Heard the same type of things when businesses reopened with restrictions. People wouldn't come out. Granted some didn't but our place for example only ended up 20% down overall in 2021 compared to 2019.Sadly I can't see it lasting. Once the big bills kick in many people will have hard choices to make and hospitality spend will be a casualty.
Hope I'm wrong coz the Industry deserves a break after the last couple of years.
Folk will always want to eat outSadly I can't see it lasting. Once the big bills kick in many people will have hard choices to make and hospitality spend will be a casualty.
Hope I'm wrong coz the Industry deserves a break after the last couple of years.
I think it will, the people who could afford to go out before all this will find a way to go out to the places which managed to stay afloat. I expect some people will have been saving a fortune in not going out, and won't have been able to spend it all on painting and decorating.Sadly I can't see it lasting. Once the big bills kick in many people will have hard choices to make and hospitality spend will be a casualty.
Hope I'm wrong coz the Industry deserves a break after the last couple of years.
Good luck Randy.Heard the same type of things when businesses reopened with restrictions. People wouldn't come out. Granted some didn't but our place for example only ended up 20% down overall in 2021 compared to 2020.
I think the anxiety of Covid has more or less gone but if interest rates start biting mortgage payments and fuel bills/petrol diesel stay highish it might have an effect.I think it will, the people who could afford to go out before all this will find a way to go out to the places which managed to stay afloat. I expect some people will have been saving a fortune in not going out, and won't have been able to spend it all on painting and decorating.
The main closures and struggles will be for people's home bars I think, which will go back to being unused gyms and junk storage.
Last summer was ok in the restaurants and bars from what I could tell, as a punter, but there were still a hell of a lot of people being cautious back then, and the 20's-50's were just starting their jabs, or in-between 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.
Attitude has moved with the risk, which it should, and most seem to have largely moved onto "I've had my jabs, protection is as good as it can be, I've done my bit and the new variants are hard to stop (impossible) anyway", so I think most will just move on and get on with it. I think how people act in supermarkets is a bit of a precursor to how people will look at going out in summer, most will not give it a second thought.
There might be a lull for like October-November, as people pay off summer, and build up funds to go out over Christmas, as we've not really had a derestricted Christmas for a while. A lot of last Christmas people seemed to be self restricting due to the Omicron unknown, having that again is unlikely I think.
Rates are not up that much, and have been very low for a long time.I think the anxiety of Covid has more or less gone but if interest rates start biting mortgage payments and fuel bills/petrol diesel stay highish it might have an effect.
We'll see, hope I'm wrong and I really hope our fantastic bars and restaurants can recover.
October/November lull is normal in our industry too. January is usually quiet too but our January's seem to tick over quite nicely compared to other places. Probably a mixture of a great menu, easy access location and a well populated village.I think it will, the people who could afford to go out before all this will find a way to go out to the places which managed to stay afloat. I expect some people will have been saving a fortune in not going out, and won't have been able to spend it all on painting and decorating.
The main closures and struggles will be for people's home bars I think, which will go back to being unused gyms and junk storage.
Last summer was ok in the restaurants and bars from what I could tell, as a punter, but there were still a hell of a lot of people being cautious back then, and the 20's-50's were just starting their jabs, or in-between 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.
Attitude has moved with the risk, which it should, and most seem to have largely moved onto "I've had my jabs, protection is as good as it can be, I've done my bit and the new variants are hard to stop (impossible) anyway", so I think most will just move on and get on with it. I think how people act in supermarkets is a bit of a precursor to how people will look at going out in summer, most will not give it a second thought.
There might be a lull for like October-November, as people pay off summer, and build up funds to go out over Christmas, as we've not really had a derestricted Christmas for a while. A lot of last Christmas people seemed to be self restricting due to the Omicron unknown, having that again is unlikely I think.
Yeah, I thought it would be. Seems like a lot of incentives get put out for Jan, for bigger/ less niche places, to boost those numbers, but I bet much doesn't happen in Feb either. Village type places which are not too far away from big towns should usually end up ok, I expect.October/November lull is normal in our industry too. January is usually quiet too but our January's seem to tick over quite nicely compared to other places. Probably a mixture of a great menu, easy access location and a well populated village.
Delighted for the industry Randy. My goodness you deserve all the luck this year after a battering the last two years. More power to eating out.October/November lull is normal in our industry too. January is usually quiet too but our January's seem to tick over quite nicely compared to other places. Probably a mixture of a great menu, easy access location and a well populated village.