The situation is so severe that Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday that pubs and restaurants would be eligible for a huge VAT cut (down from from 20 percent to 5 percent) and a £500 million dining discount scheme in his ‘mini Budget’ - an unprecedented effort to save the struggling industry from collapse. Now, I’m not saying I’d turn up to Sexy Fish, or any other restaurant with a dress code, in a tracksuit and expect it to pass muster - as a fashion editor I’d relish the opportunity to wear nice clothes on any opportunity, even if I have become rather wedded to my Sweaty Betty yoga pants of late. But it is fascinating that a restaurant would turn away any customer, in any attire, when the whole hospitality industry is on its knees after lockdown.ĭespite all the grand reopenings of restaurants and pubs at the weekend, many of us are yet to go back out for a meal.
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