The Smith

Coffee, wine, gin & pizza! Bar in Windermere. 11am-11pm Tues-Sat. No.1 on Tripadvisor. Bring your dog. 🍕🍷🐶

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@MerlinFDC4 Keep going! X

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@windermereferry Please update the electric signs- they aren’t working.

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@RevRichardColes There is a lovely little pies wagtail that likes to ride the @windermereferry They leave him a dish of bird seed & named him Captain Waggy!

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@UKHospKate The money is needed prior to reopening to allow businesses to properly prepare and give us all a fighting chance. Not after reopening! Otherwise why is it called a restart grant?

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@UKHospKate @c_r_5 @RishiSunak @jono_morgan @CharnwoodBC Not in our neck of the woods, and the Lakes is a very hospitality heavy area.

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@UKHospKate @SouthLakelandDC website says they were told by govt they wouldn’t get money till at least 19th April. We all need to do a new application form which they are designing. Why?! They have all our details. Form will be online from 19th. Not good enough.

[Kate Nicholls OBE @UKHospKate]

If this is the roadmap it suggests hospitality will be closed for months to come - well beyond point over 50s are vaccinated. If this is the case additional support, not just maintenance of existing measures essential

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@RishiSunak @GordonRamsay @GordonRamsay reacted by sacking a tonne of staff and leaving them unable to access furlough etc right before the scheme launched.

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@McMoop @dardisp He is absolutely right. With the most vulnerable now vaccinated, what is the problem now? Goalposts being moved constantly. @seatat_thetable @UKHospKate

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

Thank you @mmajor95 !
Best places to go for pizza in and around Kendal - according to TripAdvisor https://t.co/BbKHbcswh2

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@SouthLakelandDC When will December be paid? And the newer grant is marked as ‘In Development’- please give businesses a timeline so that we know what to expect, and when. @UKHospKate @timfarron

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@SouthLakelandDC We are still waiting for grant from December. It’s now 19th Jan. Other councils have made payments- most of Yorkshire for example. When will these be paid?

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@Dan_Ha11 @AlexReilley1 Supposed to be in Jan for employees still on books. Accountant told us that has been scrapped.

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@Dan_Ha11 @AlexReilley1 They’ve scrapped that.

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@UKHospKate It’s grants that are needed, not deferral and accruing more debt.

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@AlexReilley1 Absolutely right. It’s shameful.

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@UKHospKate Nothing from @SouthLakelandDC & still waiting for last month too. They only got their system up & running this week despite having one of the highest densities of hospitality businesses in the country.

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@UKHospKate Very sad, but the first of very many jobs to go, on a large scale in the hospitality industry.

[The Smith @thesmithbar]

@TheWeymouthArms @UKHospKate Totally agree.

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@HZ5550 @UKHospKate Absolutely agree. Hospitality has been treated shamefully by @BorisJohnson & @RishiSunak compared to their Euro counterparts.