Reuters, Jun 2021
Nimble Irish restaurants get back to basics....
"......Restaurants like Dublin's Las Tapas de Lola, which tried to adapt but simply "lost money hand over fist" due to steep labour and delivery costs and a cuisine ill-suited to takeaway, are instead counting on a sharp rebound once the economy reopens.
The restaurant has survived by exhausting money set aside for a potential expansion, deferring "massive" tax liabilities and agreeing to pay a percentage of its rent, co-owner Vanessa Murphy said.
With the sector desperate to tap into record levels of household savings and a public chomping at the bit for some normality, Las Tapas de Lola is already booked out well into August and it needs to be.
"It's going to take all of us about five years to rebuild," Murphy said." Click for more