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'Angry and frustrated': Restaurants aren't happy about plans to curb 'low-skilled' migration
20/02/2020
The hospitality industry has responded with disdain to new government plans that will make it harder for EU citizens to get UK visas.
'My restaurant used to make £2 million a year but thanks to Covid and Brexit we lost it all'
21/01/2022
Sarastro owner Murad Magden says his business is 'on its knees'.
'Not a single boot on ground until November': Businesses say government visa scheme is unworkable
29/09/2021
Lord Wolfson is a highly successful businessman, a prominent supporter of Brexit and a Conservative peer. He is, in short, the sort of man who should be in perfect alignment with a government led by Boris Johnson. He isn’t.
A Brexit-related exodus of EU workers from Suffolk has seen restaurants close, business advisors warned today.
Closures in 2020/21 follow 856 restaurants shutting down the year before.
Nearly 200,000 hospitality workers have left the UK since the pandemic, despite post-Brexit visa schemes introduced by the Government, according to Caterer.com.
Battle to stabilise hospitality and tourism in the Ribble Valley after blows of Brexit and pandemic
16/06/2022
Tourism and hospitality activity in the Ribble Valley and work to stabilise the constantly-changing visitor economy following Brexit and the pandemic is being discussed by borough councillors this week.
Between Brexit and Covid, London’s food scene has become a dog’s dinner – can it be saved?
19/07/2023
After Lily Allen tweeted that she’s noticed ‘standards have slipped’ in many of London’s restaurants, people began asking themselves whether she was right. Kate Ng speaks to those on the frontline about what’s gone awry in a city once known for its incredible food.
A County Durham restaurant has been forced to close its doors after five years – with the owners highlighting the inconsistency of running a business through Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.
A RESTAURANT owner said unless the Government reverses Brexit, all industries are going to suffer.
Brexit and the pandemic are being blamed by a Horsham restaurant for an ‘unusually high level of staff shortages’ which has resulted in its temporary closure.
The end of the holiday season heralds the return to centre stage of a number of burning Brexit-related issues this autumn.
Somewhere in the country one more closes every day, as falling immigration squeezes staff and and a weak pound drives up costs.
Curry house bosses told how they felt “used”, “let down” and may have been given “false hope” by politicians that quitting the EU would allow more workers in from South Asia to address staff shortages.
Just as Britain’s pubs, restaurants and food retailers prepare to emerge from lockdown in the coming months -- generating an expected surge in business -- Brexit threatens to deal the beleaguered sector a fresh setback.
Every now and then there are weeks when Brexit issues surge back to the foreground, and this has been one of them.
Brexit: The scorecard two years on
02/01/2023
So how is it going? In economic terms, the past year has helped differentiate the impact of Covid from the impact of Brexit. / Doing so has exposed a hefty price being paid by many firms, as well as public service employment, for dislocation of Britain from its nearest neighbour's trading bloc.
Brexiteer calls for pubs and restaurants to re-open as ‘majority don’t care about coronavirus’
23/03/2020
A Brexiteer politician has called for pubs and restaurants to re-open because he claims a ‘majority don’t care about the coronavirus’.
Brexit’s impact on UK’s hospitality industry ‘huge’ as European workforce denied chances, says top Northern Ireland chef Clare Smyth
03/07/2022
Northern Ireland’s highest-honoured chef has described the impact of Brexit on the UK’s European hospitality workforce as ‘huge’. / "But Brexit has been huge. The whole industry is missing the European workforce."
As London gradually unlocks, its hospitality sector is slowly waking up. / But there’s a familiar theme evident throughout this enormous industry: thousands of Europeans who used to work here have moved on.
British curry industry ‘dying’ because of Brexit and staff shortages, leading restaurateurs warn
26/12/2018
The British curry industry is “dying” because of Brexit and staff shortages, leading restaurateurs have warned.
British pubs facing ‘acute’ staff shortages
03/06/2021
Restaurants are also having to reduce capacity because they do not have the staff to open.
Got No Beef announced that they have closed their doors for the final time.
Jason Atherton says he will have to mothball or fully close restaurants due to Conservative policy on EU employment after Brexit.
Chefs in Northern Ireland struggle to ship top fruit and veg from Britain due to Brexit complications
25/05/2021
‘Since getting in touch with suppliers ahead of reopening, I’ve found certain fruit and veg is harder – for smaller importers, it’s not worth the extra expense and time’