James Madison University only has one recreation space available to students. Overcrowding and lack of available equipment is a potential result of only having one space.
it was really challenging because you simply don t know, we did have pre bookings and people were booking because of the social distancing space limitations, but it still meant you had a mismatch between supply and demand where you had an unpredictable number of people coming, very heavily weather dependent in the early part, april and may, where people would cancel their bookings very last minute because they could not sit outside. and crucially, it meant it was difficult to get staff to come back to work and recruit new staff into the industry because we could not offer them a stable career choice and we could not offer them a guaranteed set of hours for them to return to hospitality. others had to wait until may to reopen indoors. even then, it wasn t business as usual. with nervous customers staying away and many others deterred by the rule of six limits. nice to be back as a team, nice to see our regulars once again. we are down financially, we are down, but we are surviving and
on new safety measures to protect their customers and staff. just so nice to be with people again. in april, hospitality venues were able to reopen, after a winter of lockdown. but they could only do so outdoors and, even then, there were limits on numbers. it meantjust a third of hospitality venues could trade those that had outdoor space or a beer garden. it s nice to get together and to share what we ve been doing. feels like forever that we ve been able to sit down together. they are managing it quite well. you need to be out with your friends and family and do these things. - it was really challenging because you simply don t know, we did have pre bookings and people were booking because of the social distancing space limitations, but it still meant you had a mismatch between supply and demand where you had an unpredictable number of people coming, very heavily weather dependent in the early part,
with people again. in april, hospitality venues were able to reopen, after a winter of lockdown. but they could only do so outdoors and, even then, there were limits on numbers. it meantjust a third of hospitality venues could trade those that had outdoor space or a beer garden. it s nice to get together and to share what we ve been doing. feels like forever that we ve been able to sit down together. they are managing it quite well. you need to be out with your friends and family and do these things. - it was really challenging because you simply don t know, we did have pre bookings and people were booking because of the social distancing space limitations, but it still meant you had a mismatch between supply and demand where you had an unpredictable number of people coming, very heavily weather dependent in the early part, april and may, where people would cancel their bookings very last minute because they could not sit outside. and crucially, it meant