It’s like the government wants us all staying in our homes, Covid lockdown but this time calling it energy lockdowns instead, with no businesses of worth, like restaurants and pubs, surging it, this time.
I hope that I am wrong but anyone starts a load of nonsense.
proletarianrage on
They say: “Hospitality **can be** a driving force of growth and jobs, but only if its costs of doing business are dramatically reduced.”
But it seems like the main cost burden is the living wage. This raises a conundrum: is a sector truly viable if it has to survive by paying a wage below what people can afford to live on? Maybe hospitality just isn’t an industry that’s viable for the traditional private sector?
wkavinsky on
“Pay is too high”, but also “our prices are so high our staff can’t buy our services”.
What, exactly, did they think would happen? That all 3% of the country that can afford what they sell would make up the difference?
As an aside, used to work in a pub for a landlord who owned the build and was non-tied.
Booze was cheap (£2/pint vs £3.50 elsewhere), and the place was rammed on a weekend and most nights were busy – he made his money from volume, not per-customer spend, and was *extremely* successful doing so.
london-plane on
Living wage is similar to the affordable housing regulations completing choking new builds. Government intervention sounds good but put in practice there’s always unintended consequences.
CupCakesNFlatWhite on
I guess staycations are back on the menu, flights have surged in price so I suggest we all meet up in Cornwall again and hear them complain how horrible tourists are but also how hard it is to find young people to do the jobs in the tourist industry.
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It’s like the government wants us all staying in our homes, Covid lockdown but this time calling it energy lockdowns instead, with no businesses of worth, like restaurants and pubs, surging it, this time.
I hope that I am wrong but anyone starts a load of nonsense.
They say: “Hospitality **can be** a driving force of growth and jobs, but only if its costs of doing business are dramatically reduced.”
But it seems like the main cost burden is the living wage. This raises a conundrum: is a sector truly viable if it has to survive by paying a wage below what people can afford to live on? Maybe hospitality just isn’t an industry that’s viable for the traditional private sector?
“Pay is too high”, but also “our prices are so high our staff can’t buy our services”.
What, exactly, did they think would happen? That all 3% of the country that can afford what they sell would make up the difference?
As an aside, used to work in a pub for a landlord who owned the build and was non-tied.
Booze was cheap (£2/pint vs £3.50 elsewhere), and the place was rammed on a weekend and most nights were busy – he made his money from volume, not per-customer spend, and was *extremely* successful doing so.
Living wage is similar to the affordable housing regulations completing choking new builds. Government intervention sounds good but put in practice there’s always unintended consequences.
I guess staycations are back on the menu, flights have surged in price so I suggest we all meet up in Cornwall again and hear them complain how horrible tourists are but also how hard it is to find young people to do the jobs in the tourist industry.