Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
Oh , I didn't realise its was a gimmick thought it was to kick-start the hospitality sector, best we get back to slumber and watch the economy die . For some with no pensions to sit back on it hurts, a lot of younger people rely on jobs in what you refer to as the cheap gimmick , and yes peoples disciplines deliver the risks , the cheap deal meal was just that food to kick-start the restaurant industry and was welcomed by all parties, it was ill disciplined drinkers , house parties , crowded streets outside pubs that did this . Even now you have Northern mayors moaning about curfews, you can't win?

Perhaps the Mayor's of Manchester and Liverpool who are now saying this is awful , should have exercised better controls in thier cities .
While jumping on eat out to help out, I think you miss the point. Firstly Just my opinion but I think eat out to help out was Ill thought out. Hospitality needed help but did places like McDonald’s really need government money? Not that I want them to go to the wall, far from it due to the jobs (and IMO amazing bbq sauce!) but these companies could survive with their own promotions.

I think the point was that the rhetoric from government was ‘get back to normal’
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc...mp/uk-53942542
Which, to be fair, people did.