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Restaurants and bars face 'rent apocalypse' as operators plead for more help

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already been forced to close permanently as a result of the crisis, and an industry lobbyist has warned a 'bloodbath' could be looming across the UK's high streets.

Hospitality Union founder Jonathan Downey, who runs London street food market business Street Feast and had been planning to open three Manchester venues, has been leading calls for a nine-month 'national time out' on rents to help the hospitality sector survive.He said the 'resourceful' industry would find a way to cope with whatever distancing measures they face when they reopen."But we can't say the same for the end-of-month rent apocalypse," he said."We won't be able to manage our way around that with a tape measure and some perspex.

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