27 people didn’t turn up for their confirmed bookings last night, I’m not sure people realise but this is make or break for us, the maximum we can & want to trade at is 75% to keep everyone safe, when 27 people of that 75% can’t be arsed turning up or even let us know with a call
So, shut all my restaurants today, had a little cry as I put the notice on here and now sat at home getting drunk, so time for a thread about all this shit
Just had a meeting with all our managers & chefs, no one in the company is losing their fucking job because of this bastard virus, how this all plays out we don’t know but we’d never be able to live with ourselves if we abandon our friends, if that means I sell my house, so be it
We used to turn 60-70 people away on a weekend night but those days have long gone, please, please, please let us know if you’re not going to turn up, we will love you for it as it gives us a chance to fill that spot, our livelihoods depend on people doing the right thing! x
We are open and fighting to survive! We’ve been left in the worst of both worlds by our majestic leaders, trade down by 60% & no financial support, pls support whoever is your local independent as there’s a good chance they won’t be here if not!! xx
Then that leaves us with 2 options, stay as we are and struggle and maybe close for good or we start taking credit card details for every booking and charging for no shows which we’ve never wanted to do but things have changed completely from March
We’re very, very happy to say we’ll be opening 12th April for outside dining, we’ve an awning to keep you dry & heaters/blankets to keep you warm!! It will be a smaller menu & we’ll be taking bookings in a couple of days!!😀😀
Just what are they smoking over there at the council??!! FFS! We’ve been closed for 8 of the last 13 months, are trading at 25% of normal capacity at the moment, things aren’t easy so throw us a bone guys!
Absolute kick in the teeth for Castle Street venues who were told last night that all furniture has to be indoors by 10pm yet application for 4am license in Concert Square being considered 😡
Thanks for all the love! We filled the tables very quickly with some lucky walk ins but that’s not really the point is it? Deposits aren’t the answer at the moment with us only being outside & the chance of poor weather. Just pretty please cancel your table if you can’t make it!
My Mum who’s 84 has just had her first jab! She was always at our house for Sunday roast every week, she’s not been since early February last year and has not seen her grandchildren since then. It’s been so hard but here’s hoping for better times soon! 😄😄
Dear
@HMRCgovuk
we owe you about £300k in vat and paye, we’ve kept all our staff on the payroll (which attracts more paye ironically!!) & shut all our sites as requested kind off by
@BorisJohnson
it’ll cost us all our cash (£220k) to do this, how about we call it quits??!!
So angry right now, we closed the restaurants before we were asked to at great personal cost to us and our colleagues, we all followed the rules, my uncle passed away from covid, alone, his funeral was 6 minutes long & miserable, should of followed my ‘instinct’ instead
Some news from us, like many we spent lockdown with time on our hands & little to do & 9 months later.......
@bouchondeluxe
is born!! Classic French bistro coming in early July on castle st, fine wines, cocktails, oysters, steak and so much more! Follow them for updates
Who wants to see castle street, bold street, Hope street like this?? No cars, bike lanes, pavement cafe’s, open space to enjoy the city even more and a chance of survival for some of the best businesses in Liverpool
Got tested today at St John’s, 5 min walk from Bacaro, small Q but in and out in 20 mins, result back in 30 min, negative. This is one way to help get all our lives back to normal and protect others
#LetsGetTested
Well, the day is finally here!! After a tough few months for us all we are getting ready to re open! We’re opening bookings for the 6th July, we’ve been working hard the last few weeks to put all the right plans in place & will finish these next week.
Non food/restaurant thread coming up, so turn away now if you like, thought long and hard about posting this on here amd not my personal feed but we have a much bigger reach on here….anyway
Thank you to all our guests yesterday, special mention to the guy who followed his GF into the ladies and put his fist through our antique mirror in there, don’t worry tho we’ve got your contact details....
A few thoughts on where we are at now: we closed in March ahead of the official lockdown as the health of our colleagues and guests was the most important thing. Closing was painful for us all, mentally and financially, unsure wether we’d have a business to return to.
Sat waiting for the dentist so thought I’d put down a few things that’s causing pain of another sort at the moment! Theres a perfect storm of Brexit & pandemic that’s washing over us right now. Our steaks went up in price 25% yesterday, veg across the board is up 15%…..
The brutal feeling of dejavu descending on us as the cancellations start coming in is so depressing, needless to say we’ll keep battling on & make the best of a truly crappy situation.
Don’t mind saying I broke down there, in tears, the pressure of the last 2 weeks has been so huge, such a responsibility having 140 people looking to me and
@hanoversocial
for reassurance, we gave it knowing the consequences for us personally would probably be bankruptcy
So when a couple of weeks ago Preti Patel banged on about unskilled workers and training up UK staff I thought fuck you and every one like you because you don’t have a clue about what I, Johnny, Justine, Collette and all our friends go through to make a business like ours
Wow! Thank you so much for all the love, the whole company is blown away by the reaction to my drunken thread last night!! Lots of tears today but it’s means so much to know just how people feel about all the restaurants, think we’re going to need a bigger restaurant!!❤️❤️❤️
All that’s left to say is this shit is real, stay inside, we closed today to protect our staff and guests and the only way to beat this is not to mix with people, as hard as that is, just fucking do it, love to you all xx
It’s been a rough week and I don’t mind admitting to being ashamed of being a man this week, it’s on us that our sisters, mum’s, daughters, niece’s, wives feel the way they do, we need to be better.......
#Saraeverard
Hey
@RishiSunak
3 new electric contracts for our small business, just how are we meant to absorb increases like these as well as wage, food, product, NI inflation when peoples real wages are falling?? Asking for hospitality in the UK….
Standing with the guys
@brunchdukest
tonight, some right dick booked out their whole restaurant today using false names & phone numbers & no showed, help these guys out and show them some love & support them, Fucks sake eh??!!
Just found some old vouchers in the office and thought ‘what can we do with those? How about, come for a meal in any of our sites and get a £10 voucher foc to come back and use before the end of November as a little thank you for all the love you’ve shown us? Sound good? 😄😄
I myself left a secure job, remortgaged the house, used life savings and took on a bank loan to open
@salthousetapas
in 2010 with
@hanoversocial
, I had 4 kids & wife, most restaurants fail in the first year, my wife backed me to the hilt, I will love her for ever for that alone
A new month has begun and we’re now just 12 days until we’re back in action and I can tell you we can’t bloody wait!! We’re starting off with a slightly smaller menu to ease into outside dining, all the usual drinks will be available.....
Just spoke to pub landlord friend of mine, in March he lost £10k worth of beer when lockdown happened, brewery wouldn’t refund him, he’s not ordered any for this week in case.....so either he’s closed by government or he’s closed as he’s no beer, f***k you Johnson
We’re going to open up outside the old
@RocketandRuby
on the 12th as well for overspill, it will be drinks, pizzettes and a few sides to start of with 😀😀
Woke up this morning and first thought was my goalie scored a last minute winner yesterday and second thought was our restaurants are open today, inside!😀😀😀a really good way to wake up I can tell you!!
With more than a little sense deja vu we’re back open inside tomorrow with full menu which has a few new dishes that we’ve been working on last few weeks😀😀😀
As a very small gesture of thanks to all the amazing NHS & Care workers we will be giving them and a friend 20% discount at our restaurants starting Monday
@Salthousebacaro
(please show id when you come in)
Thank you from all at Bacaro xx
Who pay rent, have loved ones, who look us in the eye every morning, we know their partners, friends, kids, parents, we go to fucking funerals with them, there is such a disconnect between those in power and us, it makes me sad that they care so little about us, we can be better
Can you imagine being in a meeting with your team & someone wants to make a fundamental change to the way you do things, you ask them to show the evidence for the change and they answer like this?? Joke of a government, joke of leadership...
“There’s academic evidence from the US that it’s hospitality which is to blame for infections”
- “Show me”
“You wouldn’t know it. It goes to another school”
Almost 4 months ago on the 18th of March we closed our restaurants not knowing what the future held or wether we’d open any of them again, today we started the long journey back and it felt amazing for all of us!! Thank you to our amazing colleagues for all their hard graft!
Delighted that Castle Street venues now only have to bring furniture in by 11pm/11.30pm (depending on their license) with a possible extension soon - big thank you to everyone for your support 💪🏻
I’m a 54 yo white fairly boring male & this happened to me, this is not 1 bad appple, this is systematic in the police, it needs fundamental change I can’t imagine what Sarah Everad went though & what her poor family are going through now & the rest of their lives…
So whatever happens I know I’m very lucky even as I’m sat here, pissed not knowing if the business will survive, I’ve an amazing wife, kids business/friend partner and all the brilliant guys I work with
I left school with no qualifications thinking for many years that I was thick, took me years to realise that really I’m bright just not academic, I busted my balls behind a hot stove for 20 years for no money but loved every minute of it, then somehow ended up running restaurants
Just had the police in
@hanoversocial
telling us quite forcefully about new regs from Tuesday, everything they said contradicts government website, is it any wonder people don’t follow the rules cos most of the time they don’t know what they are
#shambles
We worked 6-7 days a week, 16 hour days, cleaned, unblocked toilets, waited on, cooked, painted, poured pints, laughed, cried and had a fucking amazing time and somehow created something people loved, and I mean loved
We are the people along with others who clean, empty bins, work in shops, care for our sick, elderly, homeless
@Liverpoolshell
unfortunate and all the other ‘crap’ jobs that make our country work
Well, here we go again!!! We’re fully booked today but we’ve open up
@RocketandRuby
it’s a lovely sun trap and we’re serving beer, wines, cocktails and pizzettes from Bacaro!! Oh, also doing take away pints!
I’m old enough to remember being promised ‘whatever in takes’ from
@RishiSunak
and a ‘world beating track and trace system’ from
@BorisJohnson
oh well......f**k Liverpool will have to do!
We had a meeting this morning with girls and guys in the industry, we may look like a bunch of pouncey restaurateurs but believe me we’re a tough bunch. I know each and every one of them has bust their balls, worked ridiculous hours and made sacrifices many people wouldn’t
Thank you to everyone who’s booked in for the last few days, it means a lot to us all! Tomorrow and Wednesday night are both full but we still have space at lunchtime if you want a last fix till December!!
Well, here we go again!! We’ll be open until Wednesday 10pm, we still have space if you want to bring a booking forward or just have a last meal. We’ll be back when we’re allowed and hopefully have a great Christmas! Stay safe x
Best of luck to Patti who’s moving on after 5 fantastic years with us, she’s joining
@ArtSchoolLpool
They’re very lucky to have her joining them! Thank you Patti!! 🥲🥲
Like many in the city we’re big Football fans, we even named our company after the Red and Blue shirts worn by the clubs, we won’t pay to watch tonight on principle and have made a donation to
@SFoodbanks
instead
The countdown to KO for
#LFC
first PPV offering against
#SUFC
is nearly upon us
You will no doubt be aware that fansacross country are organising a
#BoycottPPV
& encouraging fans to make a donation to Foodbanks follow the link
Just to add to this, sorry! Just seen the first news of the day, I really don’t think the PM and those in power have any idea of the reality of running an sme, I hear them talk about cash flow and think they’ve never worked on a cash flow which affected real living bodies
For some bizarre reason we’re doing a small menu change tomorrow Including this little beauty😄😄
Sod it all!!
Now more than ever we need your support and kindness!!❤️❤️
Very slow day for us today 😕 Please come and support us if you are in town tomorrow or next week and fancy a coffee and some cake. We can only carry on the work we do if we have customers through the door.
Thank you to everyone who bought ‘the Zelensky’ on Saturday! We matched the total ££’ss to give us a total of £1318 which we’ve just donated, let’s hope this hell comes to an end soon xx