loss of four Bella Italia and Cafe Rouge sites in Manchester. And it's feared it may only be the tip of the iceberg as the furlough scheme winds down and financial aid from the Government dwindles."The amount of businesses that may never reopen is quite scary," said David."We have a CIBIL [Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan] loan so that's a lot of debt we're going to have."For most hospitality businesses it's going to be harder coming out of it than it was going in.
If my sales are 50 per cent of what they normally are, we'll be losing £110,000 a month. It doesn't take long before that all goes."Whether we open at 50 per cent or 80 per cent is pretty massive, and it applies to most hospitality businesses that it's only the last 10 per.
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