Number of seated diners down by 14 percentage points in week ending 20 December, says ONS
The UK public’s appetite for eating out has plunged to its weakest since the spring amid growing evidence of theThe number of seated diners fell by 14 percentage points in the week ending 20 December to 88% of the level in the same period of 2019, before the start of the pandemic, according to the weekly digest ofUsing data from the online restaurant booking site OpenTable and other sources, the ONS said Britons were eating out less and working from home more in response to rising infection...
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