The Working Week Podcast
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Monday 09 June 2025 17:03:56 GMT
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franciswynn855 :
I’m no fan of BREXIT but the hospitality industry was in serious trouble well before that and it started with the Supply of Beer (Tied Estate) Order 1989 which caused more of an issue than it was designed to resolve. In defining what a brewery was and that it effected only breweries it began a cycle of pub companies making tied products artificially high and ruining businesses ability to be competitive with off-licences, namely supermarkets, therefore starting the decline in the drinking trade. Who is going to pay £10 for 4 pints when they can buy 24 at the supermarket? An example of how bad it was is that the in the pub I ran the difference I could have gone to a brewery to buy beer and what I was forced to buy beer at through the pub company was £53k a year.
2025-06-09 19:31:23
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Michael Bay :
I hear people blaming brexit. But the same is happening in Ireland ? And most of the western world ?
2025-06-09 17:28:02
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Badboyuk71 :
Cost of importing is barely nothing , food inflation is basically the Russia Ukraine war, drove up energy prices and all food wholesalers and importers use a large amount of energy, add to that Ukraine is the largest exporter of grain and other items caused a massive increase in food costs, then add the massive increase in minimum wages hospitality relies on large numbers of staff, Brexit was irrelevant
2025-06-10 05:51:52
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The Secret Restaurateur :
You are spot on. Produce sky rocketed in price, workforce felt unwelcome and unsafe and left in droveas leaving a huge hole in talent. The pandemic multiplied this. The scramble to find component chefs / staff skyrocketed wages and prices even more. Then the cost of living started pushing costs up and sales down.
2025-06-10 08:40:46
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andysmith3360 :
Not having cheap unlimited workers from the EU that what’s the Bosses miss the most they don’t care about native British people at all
2025-06-15 07:24:15
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gasengineer395 :
france Germany Belgium Ireland were all doing worse than the uk after brexit. I honestly believe that because of like covid it nearly impossible to tell if brexit was good or bad
2025-06-09 20:18:31
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Chris Spr :
COVID & the Ukraine WAR have had a bigger impact than Brexit
2025-06-09 17:56:28
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The restaurant guru :
Your forgetting 300% increases in energy bills, unregulated commercial rentals and VAT at 20%. 10% lean profits in a typical hospitality business had been wiped out.
2025-06-09 17:44:52
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Sherwood :
No investment in trading & using our own people. Ask Tony Blair where it all started to go wrong
2025-06-11 20:31:19
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Ashley :
Because now places have to pay a liveable wage
2025-06-09 17:33:40
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Harry Singh :
💯 #Brexit cost the uk GDP of 4% or £145bn+ per year! Everyone compares from 2020, but the UK economy waa in decline since 2016 vote! The loss of supply chains and man power has cost the UK permanent decline!
2025-06-09 23:57:01
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Aidy :
Not Labour's taxes....something that happened 5 years ago.
2025-06-10 01:09:31
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jg-33 :
We haven't had a true need it yet
2025-06-10 05:18:16
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ChefJR2022 :
Now do it for UK nationals. How many more have left the industry in the same timeframe?
2025-06-13 21:44:10
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John Gladwin :
Spot on Benjamin!
2025-06-13 03:02:53
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Angry Haggis :
so nothing to do with increased ni or the increases to minimum wage . even if there is some truth to what you say then don't increase ni and minimum wage .
2025-06-11 20:32:37
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Jason MacCathmhaoil ☭ :
In fairness. In terms of pubs, they were on the decline anyway. We’d been hearing it since the mid 2000s
2025-06-09 19:49:27
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Shugz :
I remember when 24 hour opening was a thing and bars could make money. they could be empty for hours at a time and still make profit overall. now wages so high, High taxes, NI, VAT, energy costs. it makes sense to only open at busy times
2025-06-09 23:01:51
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paddy :
I'm 23, have 8 months experience working behind a bar when I was 18. I've applied to literally 50+ bars in my area and have had not a single reply.
2025-06-09 17:13:59
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wilko147 :
As usual someone clearly very intelligent explaining how damaging Brexit was and still is. No doubt as usual those not very intelligent will ignore every word or blame Starmer, Labour, Johnson, Conservatives, Covid or the EU 🤦♂️
2025-06-15 23:17:52
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Yohoho :
Operating hours have nothing to do with staffing lol. Covid has made businesses realise they can make the same money being open less hours 🤷♂️
2025-06-10 05:54:39
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