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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

Daily: The Last Supper - Is it the end of restaurants?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Despite Dishy Rishi’s best intentions, restaurant culture has been hit hard by COVID. Lockdowns and cancelled reservations, social distancing and staff absences, have stirred up a toxic cocktail for many businesses - one garnished with post-Brexit labour and supply chain shortages. So has our relationship with restaurants changed forever, and what’s next on the menu? Corey Mintz, author of The Next Supper, and Eater London’s Adam Coghlan join Jelena Sofronijevic to chew on why haute cuisine is cooling off, whether takeaway food is really so democratic…and if COVID has called time on the all-you-can-eat buffet.    “Restaurants were told to diversify and prepare themselves for the rise of takeaways. But they didn't until the pandemic.” - Corey Mintz “The major delivery companies in the UK are neither economically nor environmentally sustainable.” - Corey Mintz “Today I discovered, ordered, and ate the food from a new restaurant within 30 minutes. Once you've tasted that, you can't go back.” - Adam Coghlan “If you hired an architect to build a restaurant today, they'd ask you where you'd like the Instagram wall.” - Corey Mintz “The £6k given to restaurants which closed over Christmas was mere chicken feed.” - Adam Coghlan https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented and produced by Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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restaurant culture has been hit hard by the pandemic. Lockdowns and cancelled

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reservations, social distancing and staff absences have shaken a toxic cocktail for many

1:25.0

businesses, one garnished with post-Brexit labour and supply chain shortages.

1:29.2

With 10% of UK restaurants closing their kitchens for good, it's an issue that clearly won't go away anytime soon.

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So has our relationship with restaurants changed forever?

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And what's next on the menu?

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To chew on all of this, I'm excited to be joined by two special guests.

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Corre Mintz is a freelance food reporter and the author of the next supper,

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The End of Restaurants as we knew them and what comes after. And Adam Cochlan is the editor of E. to London.

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