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Even radio 4 is running a story about infection rates levelling out and that cases don’t warrant hospital visits as much as they used to - maybe we’re onto the next stage - persuading everyone back out and back to work. Here’s to that.

If the govt shuts down large parts of the economy don’t be surprised if a recession is recorded. We’re coming out the other side of this now so I’ll be holding for sure.

Russia you say, hmmm... hopefully we’ve learnt to be more self reliant from this fiasco.

Barchid, I know London Docklands extremely well and you raise an important point - normally many thousands of office workers would spend spend spend on after work drinks/food, they are now WFH and must be spending there to some extent. As Marstons had no presence in Canary Wharf, this is all to their benefit.

I’m away for a few days around Rye. Finding a surprising number of pubs/restaurants not doing the eat out to help out because they feared they would be too busy, and I’m inclined to agree!

Googled “joint corporate broker” and checkEd the recent history of companies that came up, pretty much all had an RI or placing not long after, so odds on something is afoot.
Maybe required to keep the JV on track? Given the current MP is around 300m how do you calculate the required 250-500m? seems OTT especially if we are getting back to normality by then.

Good points indeed. The recent switch from focusing on death rates to cases tells me we’re over the worst. Cases can easily be increased by increasing testing. The challenge now is getting people back to offices and overcoming their fear of commuting, err, I mean working in a packed office! Everyone dreams of ditching the commute so I’m not surprised they’re reluctant but offices do perform valuable functions for business in terms of networking and innovation.

Uplift across the hospitality sector.

Mars low was between 18 and 19, it’s jdw that is more depressed by your measure.
Frustrating to see the ftse having a good day but leaving the pub sector to fall so much, if only the media would stop speculating for clicks.

Pubs ‘may’ close
An asteroid ’may’ destroy the earth etc ;-)

Any link to a news source? Sounds like you’ve misread something.

Not convinced a govt would drive it’s economy into the ground as that costs lives too in terms of a broke NHS etc

So far, a sage scientist was asked if locking down the pubs again was a possibility, and he said it was a possibility. Everything is a possibility! and he is obviously reluctant to rule anything out.

Another lockdown would put more pressure on independents rather than MARS, does make for a more volatile ride but the long term favours them. How long is long term? That’s an issue for many.

Steady on, Rishi hasn’t gone completely mad, offer is for mon-weds only

and pleased to see the number of time slots fully booked, both lunch and dinner, and not just on Rishi’s mon-weds deal. Hopefully allowing restaurants to break even whilst waiting for the corona curse to lift. Good weekend all.

Joined the socially distanced queue in my local jdw and gave up, sat down, and ordered on the app. In the end. May these sunny days continue and make the most of Help out to eat out.

However, in previous times a trip to the pub was not seen as detrimental to your health (well, not short term anyway!). At least MARS has a nice supply line setup to the supermarkets to soften the blow, unlike JDW or MAB.

ClarkCP, thinking about this, there might not even need to be any update to the app. I mean they can change prices without an update - only tricky part is that alcohol is exempt from the offer, that’s the only reason possible to require an update but even then I don’t think customers will need to do anything.

Still, we’ll see on 1st Aug.

Coming out of a pandemic break even sounds way better than continuously haemorrhaging cash - that can’t continue. Break even at this point when things are getting better implies we’re on the up.

The update to the app will be a trivial expense for Wetherspoons as a single update covers so many pubs, it’s pretty straightforward too so I’ll be amazed (and worried) if it isn’t in on time.