Jason Myers, who runs five pubs across Surrey, says the cut is welcome but more is needed to help the sector.<\/p>\n
“[It is] positive that this new government seems to want to engage [with] the hospitality industry, but we’ve got a way to go I think,” he added.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to get VAT down and we’ve really got to start tackling some of these headwinds.”<\/p>\n
Myers said he was looking at opening sites in Paris and Dubai where “it’s a much better, level playing field”.<\/p>\n
Jonny Abrahams, who runs four restaurants cross East and West Sussex, says he is concerned his businesses are not included in the cut.<\/p>\n
“It’s great to hear of some help, but I guess it’s difficult to understand quite what the difference is,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’m a local independent business, employ 75 people, customers can come in and just have a drink, they can come in and have a meal, there’s not a huge difference with that and the pub down the road that does exactly the same thing.”<\/p>\n
Abrahams said cost increases during the past three years had been “bonkers”.<\/p>\n
“My employer’s National Insurance alone has doubled effectively and it went up by well over \u00a330,000 a year, and again that’s the kind of thing that can make or break a business, and that’s just one cost alone,” he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Myers, who runs five pubs across Surrey, says the cut is welcome but more is needed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-708173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}