The government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme proved to be successful for the sector, with calls for its extension and some operators continuing the scheme by supporting it themselves. While Covid, and the unprecedented measures taken to deal with it, have taken centre stage, the government is also turning its attention to tackling the obesity epidemic. This issue also comes up to date with the PAPA Awards 2020 latest.
The hospitality sector has been allowed to re-open this month - a reduction in the social distancing from two to one metre, a temporary VAT reduction and Eat Out to Help Out scheme just some of the latest government support measures for food businesses trying to cope with altered consumer behaviour and a damaged economy.
In the rapidly changing environment, we now all find ourselves in - where nothing seems quite as straightforward as it was before the coronavirus pandemic all but closed the restaurant world - we have endeavoured in this issue to point you in the direction of help and support, and sources of advice in these unsettling times, as well as provide our customary ‘food for thought’ in terms of product news and industry developments. Looking ahead, we’d also like to remind you about this year’s PAPA Awards.
Our supplier directory is the definitive list of companies who specialise in the pizza, pasta and Italian food industry.
Pizza Pasta & Italian Food Magazine is the trade magazine of the UK’s Pizza Pasta & Italian Food Association (which celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2017). Starting out as the Pizza Press in the early 1980s, the magazine soon established itself as a unique source of news and information for those in the UK’s burgeoning Italian food and restaurant trade – a distinction is has maintained to this day.
