The Spur Group will not be opening its restaurants any time soon as it was hit hard by physical distancing rules even before the lockdown.
He would not say when the Spur Group, which includes Panarottis, RocoMamas and Spur, would open again.
“When are we going to open again? I could not give you a definitive answer,” he said. “Until we get toHe said the group would take stringent measures when it decided to reopen. It has implemented measures to protect staff and their franchisees during the lockdown. “The group has waived the franchise fee to help franchisees pay staff for a couple of months,” said Farrelly.
“The aftershock of this is going to go on for months. The reality is that we need to survive so that we can come out. “We can't wait to go back to serving burgers, ribs, steaks, fish ... but the realities of the virus will dictate that.”reported on Wednesday that Farrelly had sent a letter to landlords saying that just before the lockdown, when physical distancing was introduced, there were significant trading losses.
"The restricted trade was so injurious that the lockdown almost came as a relief as the cost of individual closures was preferable to the hideous trading losses our franchisees were incurring," the letter read, according to the publication.
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