bars and other hospitality venues will return to table service only with one metre social distancing and no more than three households in each group. gavin stevenson is the director of the mor rioghain group, which owns venues in inverness and aberdeen and is also the vice chair of the night time industries association scotland. thank you very much forjoining us today, gavin. in scotland, nightclubs will be allowed to remain open if they adapt a table service with social distancing. for your venues, what are you going to do, what are you going to go down, what route? ,., ., ., ., ., route? good morning. for our premises route? good morning. for our premises we route? good morning. for our premises we have route? good morning. for our premises we have a route? good morning. for our premises we have a range - route? good morning. for our premises we have a range of i route? good morning. for our- premises we have a range of premises ranging from restaurants and a small nightclubs
with one metre social distancing and no more than three households in each group. in light of those new restrictions for nightclubs in scotland, i spoke to gavin stevenson who is the director of the mor rioghain group, which owns venues in inverness and aberdeen and is also the vice chair of the night time industries association scotland and he explained what they were planning to do. for our premises we have a range of premises ranging from restaurants and a small nightclubs so for us, we will be closing the nightclub, it is simply not viable to operate with one metre social distancing and table service. that reduces our capacity by about 75% and we just can t trade viably like that. to that extent, the announcement today that there will be additional closure grants for places to close is welcome from the scottish government, albeit we all wish we weren t in this position again at this time of year. of course, and with your nighttime