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Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 7:22 pm
by Corazon de Leon
Lagamorph wrote:My favourite chain restaurant/definitely money laundering front is Tony Macaroni's.
You should visit the Tony Macaroni Arena in that case. gooseberry fool football, great generic Italian food.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:39 pm
by Lagamorph
Corazon de Leon wrote:Lagamorph wrote:My favourite chain restaurant/definitely money laundering front is Tony Macaroni's.
You should visit the Tony Macaroni Arena in that case. gooseberry fool football, great generic Italian food.
My main office base is in Livingston where the Tony Macaroni Arena is
God what a shithole of a town. And I say that as someone who lives in strawberry floating Redcar.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:47 pm
by Corazon de Leon
Lagamorph wrote:Corazon de Leon wrote:Lagamorph wrote:My favourite chain restaurant/definitely money laundering front is Tony Macaroni's.
You should visit the Tony Macaroni Arena in that case. gooseberry fool football, great generic Italian food.
My main office base is in Livingston where the Tony Macaroni Arena is
God what a shithole of a town. And I say that as someone who lives in strawberry floating Redcar.
I'm so sorry to hear that.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 9:40 pm
by Mafro
Lagamorph wrote:Corazon de Leon wrote:Lagamorph wrote:My favourite chain restaurant/definitely money laundering front is Tony Macaroni's.
You should visit the Tony Macaroni Arena in that case. gooseberry fool football, great generic Italian food.
My main office base is in Livingston where the Tony Macaroni Arena is
God what a shithole of a town. And I say that as someone who lives in strawberry floating Redcar.
Great shopping centre though.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 9:42 pm
by Lagamorph
Mafro wrote:Lagamorph wrote:Corazon de Leon wrote:Lagamorph wrote:My favourite chain restaurant/definitely money laundering front is Tony Macaroni's.
You should visit the Tony Macaroni Arena in that case. gooseberry fool football, great generic Italian food.
My main office base is in Livingston where the Tony Macaroni Arena is
God what a shithole of a town. And I say that as someone who lives in strawberry floating Redcar.
Great shopping centre though.
Oh yeah, strawberry floating huge as well. No shortage of restaurants at least.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2019 10:56 pm
by KK
Thomas Cook, Britain's oldest travel agent, was close to collapsing on Sunday night as last-ditch rescue talks looked like ending in catastrophic failure.
Sky News has learnt that the company's creditors and the government are anticipating an announcement on Monday morning that the 178-year-old business had ceased trading - with a new Whitehall taskforce set up to address the crisis.
Insiders told Sky News that the Official Receiver was expected to be involved in any insolvency process, with KPMG, the big four accountancy firm, handling the administration or liquidation of Thomas Cook's UK tour operating division - which comprises more than 550 high street shops.
AlixPartners is expected to oversee the insolvency of the group's airlines, with the Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority co-ordinating the biggest-ever peacetime repatriation of British citizens.
In total, Thomas Cook has more than 600,000 customers currently overseas, more than 160,000 of whom are from the UK.
Sources said the government was expected to launch a joint taskforce to oversee Whitehall's response to the crisis, which will pose an immediate threat to 9000 UK-based jobs.
And another round of job losses and empty high street shops.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:19 am
by Lex-Man
KK wrote:Thomas Cook, Britain's oldest travel agent, was close to collapsing on Sunday night as last-ditch rescue talks looked like ending in catastrophic failure.
Sky News has learnt that the company's creditors and the government are anticipating an announcement on Monday morning that the 178-year-old business had ceased trading - with a new Whitehall taskforce set up to address the crisis.
Insiders told Sky News that the Official Receiver was expected to be involved in any insolvency process, with KPMG, the big four accountancy firm, handling the administration or liquidation of Thomas Cook's UK tour operating division - which comprises more than 550 high street shops.
AlixPartners is expected to oversee the insolvency of the group's airlines, with the Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority co-ordinating the biggest-ever peacetime repatriation of British citizens.
In total, Thomas Cook has more than 600,000 customers currently overseas, more than 160,000 of whom are from the UK.
Sources said the government was expected to launch a joint taskforce to oversee Whitehall's response to the crisis, which will pose an immediate threat to 9000 UK-based jobs.
And another round of job losses and empty high street shops.
I just read a post on Facebook from somebody who worked there. Apperently they are getting loads of gooseberry fool from customers who seem to be blaming them for the place company going under and feeling miserable that they've lost their job. It must be horrible although the company has been in dire straits for years so this feel almost inevitable.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:27 am
by Victor Mildew
It must be so gooseberry fool to have to deal with all that, knowing you're being let go and not just say strawberry float it.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 8:30 am
by That's not a growth
I probably wouldn't be able to hold back in that situation "I'm sorry your can't go on your cruise Gary, but quite frankly I'm in a call centre in Milton Keynes and had no say in the running of the company - and I'm a bit distracted right now as I'm not sure how I'm going to pay rent or buy my family Christmas presents."
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 10:05 am
by Lex-Man
The thing I read was from a rep who has been threatened with violence and isn't sure how they're going to get home as they would have taken a TV flight.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 12:44 pm
by Gemini73
Thomas Cook has collapsed after last-minute negotiations aimed at saving the 178-year-old holiday firm failed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49791249
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:00 pm
by Albert
Thanks Gemini.
Where would we be without you.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:04 pm
by Jenuall
Apparently, and this is early days so pinch of salt and all that, but it looks like Northern Rock may be in trouble as well.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:04 pm
by Victor Mildew
Apparently Thomas cook have gone under
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:15 pm
by PatSharpsMullet
Thomas Cook went under in 1892.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:36 pm
by Winckle
PatSharpsMullet wrote:Thomas Cook went under in 1892.
The founding of Liverpool Football Club was the writing on the wall.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:52 pm
by Gemini73
Albear wrote:Thanks Gemini.
Where would we be without you.
Trapped at an airport in a different country.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:58 pm
by Lagamorph
600,000 people currently abroad with Thomas Cook at the moment, 150,000 of them from the UK.
Globally they employ about 22,000 people, 9,000 from the UK.
That's a LOT of people potentially going out of work
They have some profitable arms that may be sold as going concerns, but not in the UK sadly.
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 3:34 pm
by Preezy
Lagamorph wrote:That's a LOT of people potentially going out of work
Yeah it sucks to think of that many people potentially out of a job now, and it's not like there are 20k open spaces in other travel companies just waiting to be filled. Working in the travel industry always strikes me as being very precarious, it's vulnerable to rapid change and businesses can rise and fall on something as minor as the weather! Going the same way as high street retail - the internet is killing everything physical
Re: The Retail Apocalypse (Incorporating Casual Dining Closures)
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 4:27 pm
by Gemini73
British holidays for the win.