pubs and restaurants lost £200million a day from lost sales in 2020, shocking new figures reveal. The hospitality industry has been one of the worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic and turnover in the sector dropped by a staggering £72billion compared to the previous year, stats from trade body UKHospitality and data experts CGA suggest.
There was a big drop-off in the last quarter of 2020 in what is traditionally the busiest time of the year for pubs, bars and restaurants with Christmas and New Year.
Many firms were forced to close for either the entire festive period or almost all of it as strict lockdown measures prevented them from opening.