{"id":158479,"date":"2020-08-30T01:05:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T23:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/30\/rishis-dinners-wont-stop-businesses-feeling-empty-by-autumn\/"},"modified":"2020-08-30T01:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T23:05:20","slug":"rishis-dinners-wont-stop-businesses-feeling-empty-by-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=158479","title":{"rendered":"Rishi&#039;s dinners won&#039;t stop businesses feeling empty by autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eat out to help out saw busy restaurants and extra spending generally, but looming job losses could mean the whole nation tightening its beltBritain loves a bargain \u2013 even, as it turns out, during a global health emergency. Dismissed as a gimmick at first, the government\u2019s eat out to help out scheme has proved hugely popular, dishing up more than 64 million discounted meals so far \u2013 equivalent to almost one for every person in the UK \u2013 since its launch a month ago.When the scheme finishes on Monday, chancellor Rishi Sunak, will be able to say that his policy successfully encouraged people back into restaurants, pubs and cafes between Mondays and Wednesdays in August, serving up a much-needed boost to the economy, and to the embattled hospitality sector in particular. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/aug\/30\/rishis-dinners-wont-stop-businesses-feeling-empty-by-autumn\" target=\"_blank\">Rishi&#039;s dinners won&#039;t stop businesses feeling empty by autumn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eat out to help out saw busy restaurants and extra spending generally, but looming job losses could mean the whole nation tightening its beltBritain loves a bargain \u2013 even, as it turns out, during a global health emergency. Dismissed as a gimmick at first, the government\u2019s eat out to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}