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‘Eat Out to Help Out’
Like the United States and other countries, the European nation of Great Britain has struggled to re-open after shutting down businesses due to the coronavirus epidemic. As in the United States, restaurants have been particularly hard hit. But in August, the British government came up with an unusual plan to get people eating out again. It offered to pay half the bill for anyone eating in a restaurant, up to $13 per person. Called the “Eat Out to Help Out” campaign, the program has been hugely popular and provided a boost to the British restaurant industry. In its first three weeks the government subsidized more than 64 million meals and diners are pushing to extend the program into the fall. More than 84,000 restaurants are taking part, at a cost of more than $650 million to the government. Restaurants and other businesses face many obstacles in their efforts to reopen.