ASK, Italian Restaurants

[alfatwo]

Just received a email from them, they just decided to close all there restaurants!

Dave

 

[Scaf]

Costa Coffee moving to take away only as of tomorrow which is a bit depressing ......... and even more depressing my local has said if people stay away he might close it for good and develop the property.

 

[Doohickey]

Costa Coffee moving to take away only as of tomorrow which is a bit depressing ......... and even more depressing my local has said if people stay away he might close it for good and develop the property.

And McDonalds and Starbucks

 

[highlander]

No more mc muffin breakfasts, what is the world coming to

 

[dgmx5]

Zizzi sent a similar email at the same time.

Posturing for getting lower rents and meanwhile justifying not paying any staff on zero hours contracts because you have to have front of house staff in if a customer ignores BoJo and goes out to eat, but not if the restaurant is shut. Will still be doing takeaway though.

Ocado suspended deliveries as cannot meet demand

 

[Andyk]

I understand why the trade is shutting doors and most restaurants are now just doing takeaway and deliverybut I sat at work yesterday.....volume down by 80% and this is expected to drop further.....If they do close all puds, bars, restaurants then we will have no work. Currently looking to place 130 colleagues into other businesses across the area. Supermarket operations are crying out for people.....If not they we will be shutting the depot doors. Can't see us being able to pay wages either as we will not have revenue coming in. We were already in a three year recovery plan so this will put us back in crisis. Difficult and challenging times for all businesses in all sectors....

 

[Wack61]

I understand why the trade is shutting doors and most restaurants are now just doing takeaway and deliverybut I sat at work yesterday.....volume down by 80%
We were already in a three year recovery plan so this will put us back in crisis. Difficult and challenging times for all businesses in all sectors....

Not that the government seems to care , their strategy seems to be print money and let you borrow it

 

[philw696]

Certainly interesting times for us all.
Never known anything like it.
We're living on our own money now as not done any work since last December.
My plan was to work less but not be forced to stop.

 

[lifes2short]

Not that the government seems to care , their strategy seems to be print money and let you borrow it

exactly and putting businesses in to more debt by borrowing even more regardless of the so called "favourable" rates, it's still a bloomin loan , should suspend business rates at the very least

 

[lifes2short]

already heard of some restaurant owners asking landlords for rent free periods to avoid going tits up

 

[Wanderer]

I might be as thick as a whale omelette but isn't capitalism always about printing money, diluting the real value before people realise, getting in quick, look at scrip issues in Ltd Co's - same thing!

Seems to be it's all about making value of something that isn't really worth it, like houses, Bitcoins etc....

There, I've said it, Emperor's New Clothes.....

 

[Wack61]

exactly and putting businesses in to more debt by borrowing even more regardless of the so called "favourable" rates, it's still a bloomin loan , should suspend business rates at the very least

What they need to do immediately is freeze credit card interest, a lot of people are going to get into serious debt over the next few months at 30% interest .

On a positive note fuel prices seem to be plummeting, 1.06 for diesel at costco today

 

[Oneball]

On a positive note fuel prices seem to be plummeting, 1.06 for diesel at costco today

I’d better go shopping for fuel then.

 

[lifes2short]

What they need to do immediately is freeze credit card interest, a lot of people are going to get into serious debt over the next few months at 30% interest .

yup agree with that, however it would be better to suspend all monthly payments for a while, the monthly interest on its own on say a standard card at 20% is minimal if you only have a couple of thousand on it anyway

 

[Wack61]

Question time on BBC 1 CV19 special

 

[CatmanV2]

Question time on BBC 1 CV19 special

<turns over pre-emptively>

C

 

[lifes2short]

Question time on BBC 1 CV19 special

that's the wife's viewing sorted then, she's bloomin driving me crazy with CV updates, any car programmes on tonight, I need some light entertainment or i may just break out my old debbie does dallas vid

 

[Oneball]

that's the wife's viewing sorted then, she's bloomin driving me crazy with CV updates, any car programmes on tonight, I need some light entertainment or i may just break out my old debbie does dallas vid

There’s always YouTube

 

[rockits]

Just watching Wheeler Dealers with Ant doing a Bronco while eating my dinner

Then back out to the office for another round of out of hours remote setups for another company

 

[lifes2short]

There’s always YouTube

Timo and the wonderful T16 machine, great video of the Lombard