Restaurants, cafés and other food-led hospitality businesses are facing a closure crisis in Ireland due to various factors including VAT rate increase and the impact of Covid-19.
With a closure rate of over one per day, restaurants, cafés and other food-led hospitality businesses are in crisis in Ireland . Journalist and member of the Irish Food Writers Guild Caitríona McBride talks to Galway and Dublin restaurant-owners JP McMahon and Vanessa Murphy about VAT , Covid, corporation tax, the impact on Ireland 's tourism scene and emotional toll of the changing landscape Being a restaurateur is without doubt, a vocation.
Since late last year, there seems to be a never-ending slew of restaurant closure announcements which has been alarming and heart-breaking. According to the Restaurant Association of Ireland, over 320 restaurants, cafés and other food-led hospitality businesses closed nationwide since September of last year when the VAT rate increased from 9% to 13.5%. Over 40 restaurants have closed in Dublin alone in recent month
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