The UK Managing Director of Mademoiselle Desserts is keenly awaiting Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcement on Monday, when he is expected to set out the earliest possible dates for when some sectors, including hospitality, might reopen in England.
For Nigel Taylor, getting enough notice ahead of a definite restart for hospitality is crucial.
“The people side of things is relatively quick because we just pull them back off furlough and everyone’s primed to go, they’ve got experience of coming back in a short period of time,” he said.
“The ingredients is the thing that will delay us. Most of them are UK, there are number of ingredients we do get from abroad.”
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