Upside Down Management is summarised well by a sign I saw in a hotel recently. “Do you want to speak to the person in charge or the person who knows what’s going on?” The best ideas come from those who serve customers, pick orders and put money in the till. Not from Head Office.

Why we MUST #CutVAT Over 2,300 licenced venues have CLOSED since June That's 1 venue CLOSING DOWN every hour 123 Nightclubs CLOSED this year with predictions 1 in 3 will not last the year 12.5% of something is BETTER than 20% of NOTHING #SaveHospitality #SaveNightlife #cutvat

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Our Hospitality sector is being HIT from all sides, Inflation, VAT, Biz' Rates and now PRS/PPL Their new system is Unfit for Purpose I've heard from many venues suffering unjustifiable invoices, some being invoiced in the 10s of Thousands where once they only paid a few grand

On todays mini budget: Operators are being squeezed beyond their ability, and I fear we will now see huge cuts in staffing, reductions in opening hours and venues closing at a faster rate faster than seen during the pandemic. It is a very sad state of affairs.

Japan 🇯🇵 should just play 2nd halves.

A flash poll of 200 bar, nightclub & late-night operators found business down 20% in December compared to Dec 2019, the last December unaffected by restrictions. New Year's Eve performed better than expected with businesses trading 16% down on 2019 @wearethentia #propelinfo

The energy companies are now causing more damage and closures to Hospitality, than Covid did. The Gov’t and Ofgem urgently need to step in and pull them in line.

Small growth in economy in November - economists had expected it to fall by more than twice that - boosted once again by hospitality and World Cup. Underlining once again the vital role our sector plays in driving recovery and growth.

Lampard on Diary of a CEO by end of February latest imo.

Imagine the hard work, dedication, & sacrifice that will have gone into getting a pub in a small Devon village into the Top 50 Gastropubs in the UK. Energy costs SHOULD NOT be why hospitality businesses fail & why people lose not just their livelihood but their home. It’s wrong.

The average cost of a pint of draught lager increased 11.8% in the year to February 2023, latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed mca-insight.com/analysis-and-i…

Too many places are discouraging cash payments. As Freddy Gray has just said GB News the dangers of cashless are authoritarian surveillance society Keep insisting on cash expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2…

Don’t want to watch GB News? Don’t worry, you can watch Marina Purkiss destroy Jacob Rees Mogg here 👇🏼 This is actually the closest I’ve ever come to pitying him. Ps: Wonder if he supports fracking due to his alleged financial interests in the fossil fuel industry via Odey?

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"Put simply, this data is extremely worrying for thousands of otherwise viable hospitality businesses." Our latest member survey shows that energy bills have gone up 81% in the last year, and are three times higher than 2021. Sky News Kate Nicholls OBE news.sky.com/story/only-a-t…

Charlie Methven has agreed a deal to take over at Charlton Athletic 👀 God help them 🪩

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