Cost of Living Crisis

Restaurants have dropped menu items or set menus altogether in a bid to tackle soaring inflation and a drop in trade from cost-conscious customers.

Gary Usher’s Elite Bistros will be serving à la carte dishes from now on after the chef said that it had become “impossible” to offer a balanced set menu amid the cost of living crisis.

When people are short of cash, hospitality is the first industry to suffer, so let’s get back to basics with our offer, says Michael Clitheroe

Pubs are offering warm spaces and free meals to people struggling this winter despite being hit with a huge rise in their energy costs.