Tube strike days cost restaurants up to half their takings
June 17, 2011
Central London restaurants lose up to 50 per cent of their business on Tube strike days, the chairman of the Restaurant Association, Richard, Earl of Bradford, who runs Porters English Restaurant in Covent Garden, claims. “They are damaging the restaurant industry, damaging individual restaurants, damaging staff, and give a terrible impression to our visitors on whom many restaurants depend,” he says. He condemns the union for calling the strike when only 29 …






