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Predicting The High Street Fallout of COVID-19

In a summary of an interview given by esteemed chef Yotam Ottolenghi on BBC Radio 4 this morning, his comments were stark:

“The biggest worry that we have is rent. When corona started and we were asked to close our doors, which is totally understandable because of safety, nobody really addressed the issue of the rents”

“‘Some landlords have been threatening to prosecute and other legal actions against the tenants at restaurants in such a time because they are not paying their rents, and landlords, many of them, rely on the rent to pay their own debts.”

Read more from Internewscast’s article, published Tuesday 14th April 2020: https://tinyurl.com/qpllp26

 

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