UK restaurant bookings soar as indoor dining restarts

Reuters2021-05-27

LONDON, May 27 (Reuters) - British diners flocked to restaurants over the past week after lockdown restrictions lifted across most of the United Kingdom, and the number of furloughed workers fell to its lowest since the start of the year, weekly official data showed.

Restaurant bookings in the week to May 24 were 32% higher than their level two years earlier, before the pandemic, according to data from booking website OpenTable produced for the Office for National Statistics.

This was an increase of 59 percentage points from the previous week, which only included the first day when restaurants reopened for indoor dining in England.

The proportion of employees on furlough fell to 8% for the period May 3-16, down from 10% in the previous two-week period.

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Comments

  • March_m
    2021-05-27
    March_m
    Good for them! 
  • MaeTan
    2021-05-27
    MaeTan
    I hope that there is sufficient safety measures in place... I won’t want to imagine what will happen if the next wave happens. 
  • Blueman13
    2021-05-27
    Blueman13
    Covid will have buffet on dinners
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