Wednesday 21 October: James Watt plots bar return while UKHospitality warns of Budget job losses

Hospitality News Briefing · Oct 21, 2026 · 7m · transcript

BrewDog's co-founder announces a five-site bar venture as trade bodies urge the Chancellor to deliver tax cuts to prevent a 'lost generation' of workers.

Correction: this episode credited UKHospitality's 82% effective tax rate figure to The Morning Advertiser. The figure was in The Caterer's report, not The Morning Advertiser's. The episode also said the industry could lose another 100,000 jobs without Budget relief. The source said hospitality has already lost 100,000 jobs over the past two years; it did not forecast a further 100,000.

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