That Brewdog up at Capital Dock looks like it’s time has come. Huge floor plate, full menu, table service. On a smaller scale the Wetherspoons at Abbey St looks like it has the infrastructure to thrive as well.
Tables made of pallets allow for less surface space for germs as well
How much was it going for ??
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And they already have the price dial set to gouge so they’re laughing really.
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Never mentioned stand offs or big fights breaking out
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This is nanny-stateism gone mad
Was going quite well before this actually.
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Pubs serving food and one-metre distancing
You will have seen plenty of media coverage today (and received a VFI email last night) detailing the latest on reopening guidelines. Unfortunately, most of the information was via leaks to the media so we’re still waiting on the official guidelines, which are due tomorrow – but we’ve heard that before!
There are a number of documents we require urgently:
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Reopening guidelines for pubs serving food (29th June) – including how a pub serving food is defined
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Reopening guidelines for all pubs opening 20th July
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre document entitled “COVID19: Guidance for Food Service Businesses (this details how hospitality outlets can move to one-metre distancing)
At this stage, there are more questions than answers. Together with the LVA, we released a statement earlier today outlining our frustration at a process that is, to say the least, slow and cumbersome. A section of the release reads as follows:
“The VFI and LVA have called for the full and immediate publication of the guidelines for the reopening of pubs, saying the “drip feed” release is sowing confusion throughout the industry, creating more questions than answers. The representative bodies for pubs throughout the country also questioned why Fáilte Ireland did not release the pub guidelines at the same time as those published for the rest of the hospitality sector.
Following media reports about what the guidelines will involve, the LVA and the VFI have highlighted some of the questions that are still to be addressed around the guidelines:
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What are the full guidelines that will apply to pubs who serve food reopening on the 29th June?
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What are the full guidelines that will apply to pubs from the 20th July, when all other pubs are due to reopen?
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Will the €9 meal requirement be removed for pubs after 20th July?
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What contract tracing measures will be required of pubs under these guidelines?
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Why didn’t Fáilte Ireland publish the guidelines for pubs at the same time as those released for restaurants, cafes and the rest of the hospitality sector?”
We will, of course, send on all relevant documents to you as soon as we receive them.
VFI Chief Executive has been out in the media all day discussing the situation. He will also appear on The Tonight Show, Virgin Media One, at 10pm.
Irish Rural Link Webinar
Irish Rural Link are inviting you to join them for a webinar tomorrow morning. Thousands of people remain out of work as we await the reopening of our hospitality sector. Tourism is among the most important elements of the Irish economy, employing more than 300,000 people and generating billions of euro in revenue, almost €2 billion each year. This webinar will discuss what the reopening entails, the implications for the businesses and their customers along with the emerging business opportunities in tourism across rural Ireland.
Irish Rural Link are encouraging all those who have an interest in exploring and shaping the tourism and hospitality sectors post Covid-19, to join us in conversation on Thursday 18th June from 10am to 11 am (unfortunately it clashes with the consumer sentiment briefing at the same time).
105 min time limits. Picked straight out of their holes
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Unlike the highly scientific 90 minute limit from earlier.
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This one magically adds up to two hours with the 15 minute clean down. The virus is like that though, it respects round numbers
Pubs collecting and storing personal data 
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If I was a publican I would be seething with that bullshit.
Wont be possible to police it anyway, but still, its utter bollocks.
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Its like they’re going out of their way to make this as convuluted as possible.
Like, how is this arse of a solution any safer or more policable than just opening the pubs and insisting on social distancing inside?
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The fewer pubs that open the busier they’ll be
You’re some whingey bollocks. Open the pubs. They’re open now bati.
They aren’t open enough. Open them more
Do you think these guidelines are well thought out and workable, mate?