Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) & Pub Sector

40% of Dublin pubs plan to reopen as restaurants in June

RTE Business – 20.05.2020

A survey indicates that four out of every ten Dublin pubs are planning on reopening as restaurants at the end of June under Phase Three of the lifting of coronavirus restrictions on social and economic life. The study was carried out by the Licensed Vintners Association, which represents publicans in Dublin. When applied to the 750 pubs located across the capital, that means approximately 330 are planning to reopen. Earlier this month the Taoiseach warned that the phased lifting of restrictions would be dependent on the success of the previous one. Leo Varadkar said that if any phase resulted in a "second wave" of the virus, restrictions would be re-imposed.

A Donegal pub’s Guinness delivery service dramatically halted by Gardaí

www.irishpost.com – 18.05.2020

O’Flaherty’s Bar in Buncrana had been getting pints of Irish stout out to customers by car and bicycle since lockdown began as part of their innovative ‘Guinness Express’ service.  However, they have now been forced to temporarily cease trading after a visit from Gardaí over the weekend whereby they were accused of operating the service illegally. A spokesperson for O’Flaherty’s confirmed they would no longer be taking deliveries following the Garda intervention.