Hospitality Industry

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  1. Dan

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    Do you see variance across all sites (by country). There's (well, was as I've no idea if its still there) a fantastic colloquial little bar in Brussels where we had our first taste of belgian beer. It's wonderfully schleppy and not changed for eons. I don't think its been painted in the last 2 centuries.

    I must have been in that bar a dozen times over the space of about a decade. Still the same moustached chap. Still the same portly woman. And I don't think its too uncommon. The typical age of someone serving and waitering is much older than here (from my experience).

    Unless you owned the place, you just wouldn't really see that in the UK.
     
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    We've* got someone who works at The Crown Liquor Salon in Belfast, one of the Nicholson's pub, and he's been there for over 20 years. Completely different attitude to hospitality when you get a job in such an iconic site like that. I've never been to Belfast but I think it's owned by the National Trust and you can't touch it when you do a refurbishment.

    Not sure on variances by country as I've never seen any BrewDog figures, but in my old job you'd see variances by outlet and geography within the UK. London especially difficult on staff retention and turnover, followed by the other major cities, and then more positive numbers in your country pubs in villages and towns plus your Harvester/Toby types where the same person has done Monday, Wednesday, Friday lunch for decades as a part time gig.

    * I said we like I still work for Nicholson's. I meant 'they'
     
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    Proper riles me that George Osborne nicked the term ‘living wage’. Odious *****.
     
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    £9.50 outside London, £10.85 within according to the Living Wage Foundation. A lot of smaller companies use their figure too, although most don't bother with accreditation for various reasons. Of all the ******** things the tories have done over the past 15 years, appropriating the term 'living wage', which was just about gaining traction as a proper worked out approximation of what people actually need, and applying it to their lower minimum wage is right up there.
     
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    Sestren Well-Known Member

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    Absolutely. Nowhere near the worst thing they've done, but the sheer brass neck of it was breathtaking.
     
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    Correct.
     
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