Energy costs accounting for a third of restaurant bills
A third (33%) of a diner’s restaurant bill is going towards paying the venue’s energy costs, according to research from comparison service Uswitch for Business. Energy bills (63%) topped a long list of concerns in a survey of restaurateurs across the UK, followed by rent costs (30%), retaining customers (27%) and product inflation (26%). Thirty […]
‘This is far harder than Covid’: hospitality struggles with energy bill support cut
Hospitality operators are warning of “mass closures” with “harder times than Covid ahead” following a cut in energy bill support earlier this month. The warning comes after the government’s Energy Bill Relief Scheme, which provided £18bn to help businesses with rapidly rising costs, ended on 1 April. It was replaced with the Energy Bill Discount […]
