The sector is delivering a masterclass in adaptability, says food writer Tony Naylor
Financially, it is a sticking plaster. A non-profit way, as one restaurant operator put it to me – as he hurriedly tried to set up a delivery kitchen in a suburban rugby club – of generating some cashflow to cover staff wages and lay off as few people as possible. Nonetheless, the manner in which so many British food and drink businesses have reinvented themselves in the last week, as Friday’s eventual formal shutdown became an inevitability, has been an incredible feat of energy and ingenuity.
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